Hidden Graces

Gretchen L. Schwenker is a writer and editor from Princeton, New Jersey, who has worked across a broad spectrum of subjects, including medicine, the arts, literature, and spirituality. The use of poetry for meditation is a particular interest. After spending some years studying in Ireland and the United Kingdom, she was granted a doctorate in English literature from the University of Stirling, Scotland. She served as a coeditor on The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Autobiographies.

Fr. Mathew Kessler graduated from Wichita State University with a degree in physics before joining the Redemptorists in 1987. He has served as a parish priest and mission preacher, and as managing editor of the Liguori Publications Spanish imprint, Libros Liguori. He then served as President/Publisher from 2006 until the summer of 2013 and was elected Provincial Vicar for the Denver Province of the Redemptorist order in 2014.