New York, January 21st, 2008
WITH NO CONVENT but the CITY ITSELF, ONE WOMAN FINDS a PRAYERFUL SOLITUDE as a CONTEMPLATIVE ORDER of ONE. MARTHA AINSWORTH rides a bus into Port Authority from New Jersey at least three times a week, twice for work and once on Sunday to attend Mass at St. John's in the Village. Like any good New Yorker, Martha tries to make use of her commute. As soon as she's settled in her seat, she pulls out a rosary and begins to pray. By the time she has boarded the bus on a normal day, she's already spent more than an hour in formal prayer and at a kind of devout study known as lectio divina. By the ti...
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