Prayer and Practice in the American Catholic Community (American Catholic Identities: A Documentary History)

This volume offers glimpses of how practicing faith living a life of prayer and finding a way in a new land come together in forming the American Catholic experience. From a 1792 manual on devotion to the Sacred Heart through a 1910 passion play in the West to a 1965 street re-enactment of the stations of the cross the reader can see changing styles of prayer and a living tradition renewing itself.