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, weekly Exploring the Word, and Thursday Preaching the News updates.

Other TrueQuest Communications publications include Take Five for Faith: Daily renewal for busy Catholics, an advance subscription service for daily meditations that allows parishes to print a week's worth of meditations in bulletins or use as parish handouts. Sunday Take Five meditations are also translated into Spanish, as are all the daily reflections throughout Lent and Advent.

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 a multiple award-winning columnist for U.S. Catholic and author of God's Word Is Alive (Bayard/Twenty-Third Publications) and Invitation to Catholicism (ACTA Publications), and co-author of A Faith Interrupted: An Honest Conversation with Alienated Catholics (Loyola Press).

Joel Schorn, managing editor of TrueQuest Communications, is the author of Holy Simplicity: The Little Way of Mother Teresa, Dorothy Day & Thérèse of Lisieux and God's Doorkeepers: Padre Pio, Solanus Casey and André Bessette, both from Servant Books. He holds a master’s degree in theological studies.

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

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

Ann Lang O’Connor is director of religious education at St. Gertrude’s Parish in Chicago and author of Twelve Unbreakable Principles for Families (ACTA).

Daniel Grippo, Ph.D., co-publisher of TrueQuest Communications, is an editor and author and a specialist in Latin American history.

Bryan Froehle, Ph.D. is professor and director of the Ph.D. program in practical theology within the School of Theology and Ministry of St. Thomas University in Miami. His publications include Catholicism USA, Global Catholicism, and hundreds of national and local surveys of church trends and Catholic attitudes and behavior.

Vieira
Sister Julie Vieira, I.H.M. is a member of the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. She works at Loyola Press in Chicago and blogs at anunslife.org.

Boudreau
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.


Past Contributors

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 worked as an intern at TrueQuest Communications and is currently studying at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York.