Catholic girls Book

	Introduction	1
Pt. 1	The Company of Angels
	Excerpt from Memories of a Catholic Girlhood	11
	First Communion	14
	Digger and Margaret Mary	17
	Relief	28
	Company of Angels	34
	Normal	39
	Excerpt from Zami: A New Spelling of My Name	45
	Doubting the Reality of God	55
	Of Saints and Other Things	60
	Poem of Childhood	64
	The Last Chance	68
	Receive This White Garment	80
	Academie Sainte-Anne	83
	Sister Mary Sebastian	92
	The Nuns of Alba	100
	Getting Here from There	102
Pt. 2	Falling Away
	The Virgin of Polish Hill	107
	Angelina	117
	Novena	122
	Spilled Milk	128
	The Shock of Creation	139
	V-E Day	140
	Falling Away	144
	Fainting	148
	The Forbidden List	150
	Misty, Tiled Chambers	154
	Augusta	162
	Saturdays	164
	The Virgin Mary and the Paso Robles Cliff	165
	Our Lady of Perpetual Night Contemplates Her Lack of Faith	172
	Redeemers	174
	Girls at the Altar	183
	St. Sonya	187
3	A Temple of the Holy Ghost
	Starving for God	205
	Into the Light of Day	207
	St. Maria Goretti	210
	Confirmation	212
	The Blessed Mother, Momma, and Me	223
	Learning About Sin: The French Kiss	225
	Nijinsky	226
	Saint Marie	243
	Wild Women of Borneo	259
	The Calling	261
	Before Sewing One Must Cut	271
	El Regresar	286
	Excerpt from Household Saints	288
	Last Confession	292
	Holy Water	300
	The Fall Baby	301
	Visit	309
	Nasturtiums	311
	Housework	314
	Contributors	328
	Permissions	337