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About Us

The award-winning Prepare the Word is a premier Catholic homily preparation resource, published by Chicago-based TrueQuest Communications.

Prepare the Word provides high-quality preaching material for weekdays, Sundays, funerals, special occasions, holy days, and holidays, including daily Take Five for Faith reflections (Sundays also in spanish), weekly Exploring the Word, and Thursday Preaching the News updates.

Other TrueQuest Communications publications include Take Five Daily, a free daily email for personal faith reflection and renewal.

On behalf of the National Religious Vocation Conference, www.nrvc.net, TrueQuest Communications also publishes the VISION Vocation Guide and its multilingual websites, VocationGuide.org and VocationMatch.com.

Our Contributors

Alice Camille, M. Div. is an award-winning columnist for U.S. Catholic and author of God's Word Is Alive, Invitation to Catholicism (both ACTA Publications), and Listening to God's Word (Orbis Books). For more titles, please visit www.alicecamille.com.

Joel Schorn, managing editor, has a master's degree in theological studies and is the author of God's Doorkeepers: Padre Pio, Solanus Casey, and André Bessette and Holy Simplicity: The Little Way of Mother Teresa, Dorothy Day, and Thérèse of Lisieux, both from Servant Books, as well as many articles for the Catholic press.

Patrice Tuohy, co-publisher of TrueQuest Communications, is an award-winning editor and designer and author of a number of articles on Catholic life.

Father Larry Janowski, a Franciscan friar of the Province of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, is a poet and fiction writer. He teaches poetry and a course in Chicago literature at Loyola University in Chicago and helps on weekends at St. Barbara Parish in Brookfield, Illinois.

Ann Lang O’Connor wss faith formation coordinator for St. Gertrude Parish in Chicago. She was the author of The Twelve Unbreakable Principles of Parenting (Except When Necessary) (ACTA, 2006) and wrote for U.S. Catholic magazine and Loyola Press. She was also a bookbinder, mobile maker, and paper artist. She lost her battle with cancer on April 24, 2013.

Daniel Grippo, Ph.D., co-publisher of TrueQuest Communications, is an editor and spirituality author with 30 years experience in Catholic publishing. He is also a specialist in the history of religion in Latin America.

Bryan Froehle, Ph.D. is professor and director of the Ph.D. program in practical theology in the School of Theology and Ministry of St. Thomas University in Miami. His published work includes books such as Catholicism USA and Global Catholicism and articles on such topics as pastoral planning and priest research. Over the past two decades he has been involved in numerous surveys and strategic planning efforts within Catholic life. He frequently gives workshops for priests and other Catholic leaders.

Sister Julie Vieira, I.H.M. is a member of the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary of Monroe, Michigan. She ministers online at A Nun's Life Ministry via a blog, podcasts, a community forum, and other Internet technologies to help people discover and grow in their calling and life of faith.

Past Contributors

Father Paul Boudreau is a priest of the Diocese of Norwich, Connecticut, serving in the Diocese of San Bernardino, California, where he teaches at the Ministry Formation Institute. He is the author of Between Sundays: Daily Gospel Reflections and Prayers (Twenty-Third Publications), coauthor with Alice Camille of The Forgiveness Book (ACTA), and a frequent contributor to U.S. Catholic, Catholic Digest, and Today's Parish magazines.

Mary Lynn Hendrickson is an author, editor, and director of youth ministry and faith formation at Holy Mother of Consolation Catholic Church in Oregon, Wisconsin.

Tom McGrath is vice-president for new product development at Loyola Press.

Rev. Dominic J. Grassi was ordained in 1973 and serves as pastor of St. Gertrude's Parish in Chicago. He has written several books, including Still Called by Name: Why I Love Being a Priest (Loyola Press).

Sean Reynolds, a graduate of St. Xavier University in Chicago, worked as an intern at TrueQuest Communications and is currently studying at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York.