"Gail Ramshaw enjoys conversations. The gathering around the table with her and other guests generates conversation with fascinating stopping points and vistas, which always return to a center point of a love for the church and liturgy. This book offers a series of conversations with friends of Gail Ramshaw. These `twenty-four elders' (Rev. 4:4), invited from the list of the church's long history, each provide the starting point for a spirited interchange on the liturgical traditions and faith convictions their lives embody. An ancient friend like Justin Martyr speaks of Sunday while a modern one like Dorothy Day muses on prayers of intercession for those homeless and in need. Anecdotes and observations about contemporary liturgical concerns limn a portrait of the liturgy of life. This series of conversations will provide hours of thought, prayer, and occasional smiles for those who pull up a chair at the table and join in."Rev. Michael G. Witczak, SLD, Associate Professor of Liturgical Studies and Sacramental Theology, The Catholic University of America