Connecting With God: Ways to Pray

Reminding us that prayer need not always be offered up through traditional means, this program illustrates three alternative ways to connect with God: through body movement, music and nature. In the lead segment, Father Brendan Moss shows how to use music to connect with emotions and thereby reach God in a way that teens should find meaningful. In a very strong sequence, Sister Dorothy Eder illustrates the powerful language of body movement in communicating the feelings of joy, loneliness, and even anger, that reside within us. Finally, Kathleen Chesto invites us to find a place in nature where beauty inspires worshipful feelings. Like other fine offerings from the Oblates, Connecting With God provides simple, meaningful ways for people to make religious practice relevant to modern life. Recommended. Aud: P. (J. Reed)