Glory Be: Interesting People & How They Pray

"If I choose to pray with Scripture, I always go to the Psalms."

Glory Be: Interesting People & How They Pray welcomes Mr. Lyndon  Meyer, a Tulsa-based conductor, vocal coach, pianist, and organist. He  currently serves as Organist and Director of Music for the Church of  Saint Mary in Tulsa. Since 2014 he has served as chorusmaster, assistant  conductor, principal pianist and vocal coach for the Tulsa Opera. He  holds degrees from the University of Arkansas (BM) and the Eastman  School of Music (MM).

"We're made for divine intimacy. If we realize the value of prayer, so many things fall into place."

Sister Immaculata Hanisch entered the Carmelite Sisters of the Most Sacred Heart of Los Angeles in 1985 and received final vows in 1994. She is a graduate of the University of Oklahoma Health Science center with a degree in clinical dietetics and a Masters in Theology from Holy Apostles College Seminary in Connecticut.  She is  currently the chair of the theology department at Archbishop Collman Carrol High School in Miami Florida. She enjoys watercolor painting, reading and basketball.

"Saint Augustine took his inspiration straight from the Acts of the Apostles, Christians living in community."

Father Philip Cook is an Augustinian Friar who is headmaster of Cascia Hall Preparatory School in Tulsa.

"I need to think about how my own comfort gets in the way of ministering  to my people." 

Father Victor Galier, pastor of a Black Catholic church in Atlanta,  Georgia talks about his ministry and how his own prayer has changed over  the past nine years.

"On my best days, I pray the Liturgy of the Hours. What I love... is the way it punctuates the day."

Dr. Elizabeth W.  Collier is secretary of the North American chapter of the United Nations  Principles of Responsible Management Education, an advisor to the Archdiocese of Chicago on immigration ministry, a wife, and a mother to three teenagers. She shares how she prays.

"I was always a Benedictine spirit; I just didn't know it."

Twenty-seven-year-old Sister Lucy Fitzmorris is a novice at Saint Joseph Monastery in Tulsa. She shares her vocation story and how it is fueled by prayer. Sometimes Sister Lucy's prayer is fervent and focused. Other times she says, "it's okay to not have a goal. Showing up for prayer is part of the practice."

Fr.  Bob Reiser, a Jesuit priest, says Jesuit identity is that of sharing  the mission of Jesus Christ. "How does one pray that?"

Bishop David Konderla talks about

Glory Be podcast creators Sharron Hanisch, Fr Vince Fernandez and Mike  Malcom talk about how they pray and why they decided to start a podcast  about prayer.

"I entered the monastery one week before my 19th birthday. I was a baby."

Sr. Julia Roy entered the Benedictine Sisters at St. Joseph’s Monastery here in Tulsa in 1979 and made first vows in 1981. She was raised in Atlanta Georgia and Graduated from University of Tulsa with Bachelor of Science in Secondary Education and received her Master of Arts in Monastic Theology from St. John’s University in Minnesota. She is presently Subprioress of St. Joseph Monastery and the Director of Mission Integration at Monte Cassino School in Tulsa.