Redeeming Administration: 12 Spiritual Habits for Catholic Leaders in Parishes, Schools, Religious Communities, and Other Instit

Ann Garridos 2009 article in America magazine on the spirituality of administration in Catholic settings created a wave of demand in this successful academic administrators already full speaking schedule. Now she brings together twelve spiritual habitseach illuminated by the story of a Catholic saintthat help administrators find spiritual meaning in their work.Ann Garrido admits that she sometimes finds administration draining, even boring, as it fractures her days into tiny shards of time that make it impossible to focus on the big ideas. And yet Garrido has found spiritual gifts in her many years as a theologian, parish minister, and administrator in higher education. In Redeeming Administration, she reveals those gifts by examining twelve spiritual habitspresenting a saint who embodies each habitand showing readers how to experience their administrative work as a crucial ministry of the Church.