Teresa Rhodes McGee’s Ordinary Mysteries is both practical and inspirational, offering contemporary meditations on the fifteen mysteries of the rosary. Her soul-moving text, with accompanying photographs, brings to light deep connections between the mysteries of the rosary and the unsuspected depths of everyday life.

Long the mainstay of spiritual life for Catholics of all ages and levels of education, the rosary seemed abandoned by many after the Second Vatican Council. Now it is being rediscovered by Catholics and other Christians as profoundly biblical and nurturing to the soul. In McGee’s meditations one comes close to the message of Jesus. One learns to enlist his Mother in the work of the Spirit bringing Christ to life in his followers.

Ordinary Mysteries includes the prayers used in the rosary, directions for praying it, and an introduction to the deeply biblical spirituality that underlies it.

Teresa Rhodes McGee worked as a lay missioner in Peru and lives with her husband and two sons near Ossining, New York. She is author of The Comforter: Stories of Loss and Rebirth (Crossroad).