Kathleen Norris

The Cloister Walk (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR "Vivid, compelling... An embrace of moral and spiritual contemplation." -The New York Times "A remarkable piece of writing. If read with humility and attention, Kathleen Norris's book becomes lectio divina, or holy reading." -The Boston Globe From the iconic author of Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith, a spiritual journey that brings joy to the meanings of love, grace and faith. Why would a married woman with a thoroughly Protestant background and often more doubt than faith be drawn to the ancient practice of monasticism, to a community of celibate men whose days are centered on a rigid schedule of prayer, work, and scripture? This is the question that poet Kathleen Norris asks us as, somewhat to her own surprise, she found herself on two extended residencies at St. John's Abbey in Minnesota. Part record of her time among the Benedictines, part meditation on various aspects of monastic life, The Cloister Walk demonstrates, from the rare perspective of someone who is both an insider and outsider, how immersion in the cloistered world-- its liturgy, its ritual, its sense of community-- can impart meaning to everyday events and deepen our secular lives. In this stirring and lyrical work, the monastery, often considered archaic or otherworldly, becomes immediate, accessible, and relevant to us, no matter what our faith may be.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 1997
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781101215661
• Artikelnr.: 44648963

Autorenporträt

Kathleen Norris is the award-winning, bestselling author of Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith; The Cloister Walk; and Dakota: A Spiritual Geography. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, in various anthologies, and in her own three volumes of poetry. She divides her time between South Dakota and Hawaii.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Dawn
September 3: Gregory the Great
St. John's Abbey Liturgy Schedule
The Rule and Me
September 17: Hildegard of Bingen
September 29: Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, Archangels
The Difference
September 30: Jerome
October 1: Thérèse of the Child Jesus
October 2: Guardian Angels
Jeremiah as Writer: The Necessary Other
November 1 and 2: All Saints, All Souls
November 16: Gertrude the Great
Exile, Homeland, and Negative Capability
New York City: The Trappist Connection
Los Angeles: The O Antiphons
Borderline
The Christmas Music
January 2: Basil the Great and Gregory of Nazianzus
Passage
The Paradox of the Psalms
Baptism of the Lord: A Tale of Intimacy
January 10: Gregory of Nyssa
February 2: Candlemas/Presentation of the Lord
Celibate Passion
February 10: Scholastica
Good Old Sin
Acedia
Pride
Anger
Noon
Degenerates
New Melleray Abbey Liturgy Schedule
Chicago: Religion in America
The War on Metaphor
March 18: Mechtild of Magdeburg
April 2: Mary of Egypt
Saved by a Rockette: Easters I Have Known
Triduum: The Three Days
Triduum Notes
Cinderella in Kalamazoo
The Virgin Martyrs: Between "Point Vierge" and the "Usual Spring"
Minneapolis: Cocktails with Simon Tugwell
May 15: Emily Dickinson
Maria Goretti: Cipher or Saint?
Evening
Genesis
Road Trip
Places and Displacement: Rattlesnakes in Cyberspace
Learning to Love: Benedictine Women on Celibacy and Relationship
The Cloister Walk
The Garden
The Church and the Sermon
June 9: Ephrem the Syrian
Small Town Sunday Morning
At Last, Her Laundry's Done
Dreaming of Trees
Monks and Women
July 11: Benedict's Cave
A Glorious Robe
Women and the Habit: A Not-so-glorious Dilemma
The Gregorian Brain
Oz
Generations
Monastic Park
August 28: Augustine
The Lands of Sunrise and Sunset
The Nursing Home on Sunday Afternoon
One Man's Life
"It's a Sweet Life"
Coming and Going: Monastic Rituals
"The Rest of the Community"
"The Only City in America"
Night
Acknowledgments