Making a Heart for God: A Week Inside a Catholic Monastery - Aprile, Dianne
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A series of books offering a glimpse inside the places where people go to spend extended periods of time -- or entire lifetimes -- focused on prayer, meditation, or study. Each volume conveys a detailed view of daily life "inside the walls" in jargon-free language, and also introduces the heart of a great spiritual tradition. Takes us into the Abbey of Gethsemani -- the Trappist monastery in Kentucky that was home to the author Thomas Merton -- to explore the details of spiritual and daily life. A guide to locating a monastery near you, as well as a glossary of common monastic terms, make this…mehr

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A series of books offering a glimpse inside the places where people go to spend extended periods of time -- or entire lifetimes -- focused on prayer, meditation, or study. Each volume conveys a detailed view of daily life "inside the walls" in jargon-free language, and also introduces the heart of a great spiritual tradition. Takes us into the Abbey of Gethsemani -- the Trappist monastery in Kentucky that was home to the author Thomas Merton -- to explore the details of spiritual and daily life. A guide to locating a monastery near you, as well as a glossary of common monastic terms, make this an excellent introduction for the curious seeker -- and the perfect book to take along on your first monastic retreat. See p. 16 for the most recent addition to the A Week Inside series.
Autorenporträt
Dianne Aprile is an award-winning journalist and one of the few women ever given access to the enclosure of a men's Trappist monastery. This privilege was originally granted her for research on her book The Abbey of Gethsemani: Place of Peace and Paradox. She teaches creative non-fiction on the faculty of the Spalding University Master of Fine Arts in Writing program and has been a writer for the Louisville Courier-Journal for more than twenty years. She is the recipient of a Kentucky Arts Council fellowship and a writer's grant from the Kentucky Foundation for Women. She lives with her family in Louisville, Kentucky.