As Mary’s pregnancy progressed, I often wonder how quiet God was in her prayer. Would he have felt distant to her even as he himself, in the tiny form of his Son, was closer to her than he would ever be to anyone? Or did he favor her with a steady sense of his presence? We cannot say.

—Sally Read

from her book Annunciation: A Call to Faith in a Broken World

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LIVING IN “TWO WORLDS”

Sensing the precarious nature of faith in an overwhelmingly secular world, convert Sally Read began writing down the compelling reasons for holding on to both God and Church, taking the Annunciation as her template.

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