ALBERT HAASE, O.F.M., author of the award-winning Swimming in the Sun: Discovering the Lord's Prayer With Francis of Assisi and Thomas Merton (St. Anthony Messenger Press), holds a Ph.D. in historical theology from Fordham University. Since 1992, he has been living and working among the Chinese people in Asia. BRIDGET HAASE, O.S.U., has been a missionary in Appalachia, Africa and Mexico. She holds an M.A. in religious studies from the University of the Incarnate Word. She presently serves as pastoral minister to multiple sclerosis and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's disease) patients and teaches in a Learning Center in Dorchester, Massachusetts.