The Charismatic Renewal of the 1960s and 1970s transformed Christian worship for millions around the world, with Catholics playing a vital role in its emergence and development. Few communities influenced Catholic Charismatic worship more profoundly than the Word of God Community in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Drawing on new primary-source research and interviews, this book offers an in-depth study of the community’s worship from 1967 to 1990, the period of its greatest influence. Exploring its history, liturgical practices, communal life, and distinctive identity as a covenant community, the author reveals how the Word of God helped shape the worship and spirituality of the wider Catholic Charismatic Renewal.
More than a history of one influential community, this study provides an important foundation for understanding the liturgical development of Catholic Charismatic worship and the relationship between community, culture, spirituality, and liturgical practice during a pivotal period in modern Catholic life.
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Michael Kurek is the author of the popular book 
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Dr. Mary Kloska, Th.D., is from Elkhart, Indiana. She was raised in a huge Polish family (12 brothers and sisters) along with a lot of foster babies and other needy people in and out of the house. She presently has 70+ nieces and nephews. She has lived a very unique life. Upon graduating from Notre Dame in 1999 she spent almost 20 years in the missions serving the poor (including orphanages) as well as praying as a consecrated hermit all over the world –Siberia, Nigeria, Tanzania, South Africa, Philippines, Mexico, the Holy Land and all over Europe as well. Although she spent a lot of time away in silence praying, ironically she loves children and is very fun and outgoing when it comes to serving young adults, as well as the little ones. She also spent her time in the missions giving retreats, doing simple catechesis, leading prayer groups, giving spiritual direction, helping in deliverance, changing diapers, feeding babies and cleaning floors. After spending intense time serving in a mission she would withdraw for periods of ‘retreat’ as a hermit (including three years as an official diocesan hermit with vows under a Bishop.) The last few years she has spent as a fulltime nanny to infant triplets, twins and several large families. She speaks many languages (poorly) and enjoys playing guitar, painting icons, baking, gardening, reading, writing and simply filling in where there is the greatest need in the Church. Her WCAT Radio program, “The Heart of Fiat Crucified Love,” may be found 
Father Francis Vincent Tiso (born 19 September 1950) is a Catholic priest, scholar, and writer interested in inter-religious dialogue and Tibetan Buddhism. He teaches Tibetan Buddhism at the Pontifical Gregorian University (Universita’ Pontificia Gregoriana: Istituto di Studi Interdisciplinari su Religioni e Culture) in Rome. He translated several early biographies of the Tibetan yogi and poet, Milarepa and studied the rainbow body phenomenon in Tibet. He has led research expeditions in South Asia, Tibet and the Far East, and his teaching interests include Christian theology, history of religions, spirituality, ecumenism and interreligious dialogue. (For more, see 
