Living Liturgy 2024 2024 Living Liturgy Planner Spirituality, Celebration, and Catechesis for Sundays and Solemnities, Year B (2024)

Jessie Bazan helps Christians explore their life callings in her work with the Collegeville Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural Research. She is editor and coauthor of Dear Joan Chittister: Conversations with Women in the Church (Twenty-Third Publications) and teaches a course on Benedictine spirituality at the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University.

Brenna Davis lives in Cleveland, Ohio, and currently serves as the director of integral ecology at the Ignatian Solidarity Network. She is a 2010 graduate of Boston College. An avid reader and spiritual director, she most easily feels God's presence when outside delighting in creation.

Stephanie DePrezsp is an award-winning writer, teacher, and musician. She holds a BA from the University of Notre Dame and an MM from UCLA. Stephanie taught music and theology in Jesuit classrooms for five years and worked as a parish music director for three. Her writing has appeared in the National Catholic Reporter, Grotto Network, Notre Dame Magazine, and FemCatholic.

Rachel Drotar is program coordinator of Generative Spirit at the Sisters of Charity Foundation of Cleveland.

M. Roger Holland, II, is a teaching assistant professor in music and religion and director of The Spirituals Project at the Lamont School of Music, University of Denver. A graduate of Union Theological Seminary in New York City where he received a master of divinity degree, Roger also served as artist-in-residence and director of the Union Gospel Choir for over thirteen years. Roger serves as liturgical music consultant for the Archdiocese of New York’s Office of Black Ministry and music director for their special masses at St. Patrick’s Cathedral.

Orin E. Johnson has held professional music and liturgy positions for twenty-five years, currently at St. Margaret of Scotland Catholic Church in St. Louis, Missouri. He holds degrees in music and theology from Harvard University, Radford University, and Aquinas Institute of Theology. His liturgical music is published with OCP and GIA, his writings are published by Liturgical Press, Liguori, and Twenty-Third Publications, and he is active nationally as a speaker, performer, catechist, and retreat and workshop leader.

Jessica Mannen Kimmet is a freelance writer and liturgical musician. Formerly a full-time college campus minister, she now spends her days overseeing a domestic church and the growth of her three young sons. She holds a BA in theology and music theory and a master of divinity, both from the University of Notre Dame.

Victoria (Vickey) McBride is the vice president of mission at Saint Martin de Porres High School in Cleveland. She has been a featured preacher twice for the publication and website Catholic Women Preach. She serves as a music minister for her parish, and is passionate about creative expression, spirituality, and building loving communities.

Barbara E. Reid, OP, is a Dominican Sister of Grand Rapids, Michigan. She is the president of Catholic Theological Union in Chicago. She holds a PhD in biblical studies from The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. She is the author of numerous books and is the general editor of the Wisdom Commentary series published by Liturgical Press.

Janèt Sullivan Whitaker is a composer of liturgical music, with works published by OCP, GIA, and WLP. She holds a BA in music, and an MTS in liturgical theologies from the Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley. A longtime veteran of pastoral music ministry in the Diocese of Oakland, California, she now works as a freelance presenter of concerts, workshops, missions, and retreats.

Steven C. Warner is the founder and director emeritus of the Notre Dame Folk Choir and the principal composer for the Songs of the Notre Dame Folk Choir series. He holds a BA in religious studies from St. Michael's College, Vermont, and an MA in liturgical studies from the University of Notre Dame. A longtime collegiate campus minister, Steve served as associate director of the Notre Dame-Newman Centre in Dublin, Ireland. Steve is published by both OCP and GIA.