About this title: Kathleen Norris spent the better part of a year living among Benedictine monks at St. John's Abbey in Collegeville, Minnesota, closely observing their customs, dress, ceremonies, and even their sexuality. The men and women who have chosen the cloistered life provide a counterpoint to the secular world that is often misunderstood. Norris uses the example of the monastic life to reexamine the life she has led.
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9781573225847ISBN:1573225843
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Clean pages, no marks or tears, mild reading wear with corners turned up, staining on bottom right corner of last 90 pgs or so, light dirt soiling to outer pg edges, corners/edges bumped, tight binding, solid. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 385 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: Reprint.
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Riverhead Books, New York
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9781573225847ISBN:1573225843
Description: Very good. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 385 p. Audience: General/trade. No dust jacket as issued. No marks. Very light shelf wear. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9781573225847ISBN:1573225843
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 385 p. Audience: General/trade. Top of flyleaf cut off. Edges of pages tanned. Some shelf wear. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9781573225847ISBN:1573225843
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. A moderate amount of wear on Cover and interior pages. (W2) Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 385 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
"I picked up this book for two reasons. First, our pastor has referenced Kathleen Norris a number of times. He's been one of my spiritual guides so I pay attention to writers and books that he references. Second, one of my books-to-read is the Rules of St. Benedict and KN's book is about her experience as a Protestant living in a Benedictine monastery for six months. This was an engaging book for me but unfortunately it is checked out from the library with a number of other books that I am looking at so I am returning it after having only read a small amount. I read enough though to recommend it. She reminds me of the great Catholic writer Henri Nouwen in the sense that she has crossed the boundary that often exists between Christian believers of different traditions. Only in this case a Protestant looking at the Catholic tradition."
"I read this over the course of 6 months....such a beautiful look into the beautiful meditative life of a community of Midwestern monks and a Protestant woman's emergence into their very human, sometimes hilarious, sacred world."
"This was written about monks and the monastic way of life, lived in the world and by a woman, not a Catholic, who found a "home" in a Benedictine monastery; yet a home away from home. She still carried on her normal life in the world and family yet was able to live the monastic life in the world with many not even realizing she was a Benedictine Oblate. A very interesting book for those in the world who would like to have ties with a monastic life without becoming a monk or even a Catholic."
"I felt like I was reading a poet's journal as I went through this book. It really is beautiful, full of passages of poignancy and clarity, but I came out of it not really knowing anything about how Kathleen Norris came to the monastery, or how it changed her. Instead, the book was filled with her musings on life, death, religion, and everything in between. These essays and short biographies on saints felt more like they were written for her than for an outside reader."
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