Sr. Lorraine, a native Chicago, entered the Institute of the Blessed Virgin in 1949. Sr. Lorraine taught at St. John of the Cross school in Western Springs, IL for 14 years.  She served as a Pastoral Associate for 21 years at the Cathedral of St Raymond in Joliet, IL.  She lived, served and taught in Mary Ward (literacy) Center for 15 years. She currently lives, serves and blesses residents, visitors and friends with her rich, positive, loving, humor and insights while serving on the liturgy committee in the Mercy Circle community on the far south side of Chicago.

Therese Barbato is an actor, podcaster and communication coach based in Brooklyn NY, where she lives with her husband and daughter.

Gemma Simmonds is a sister of the Congregation of Jesus. An honorary fellow of Durham University and past president of the Catholic Theological Association of Great Britain, she studied at the universities of Paris, London, Rio de Janeiro and Cambridge for degrees in modern languages and theology. She taught theology at Heythrop College, London before returning to Cambridge to be a senior research fellow at the Margaret Beaufort Institute of Theology where she is director of the Religious Life Institute.  Gemma has been a missionary in Brazil, a chaplain in the Universities of Cambridge and London and a volunteer chaplain in Holloway Prison. She broadcasts regularly on religious matters for the BBC and has published extensively in spirituality, the theology of religious life and ecclesiology.