(This book extols a distinctively Christian worldview. Forewarned is forearmed.)I read this every year, in December/January. It focuses me, stripping away some of the materialism that's built up in my life in the previous twelve months. It reminds me of my priorities in dealing with other humans, en...
That's an hour I'll never get back. I could imagine nothing worse than believing the drivel that was in this book to be real and is the inspired work of an all knowing book writer and then spending the years it would take to fully understand the nonsense that spewed out of this book, and then most ...
written by Kathleen Norris, illustrated by Tomie dePaola It's called The Holy Twins, but the book is much more about Benedict's life. I wanted more about Scholastica. The book contains interesting stories from Benedict's life. I wanted a little bit more about the order that he founded (amazing tha...
I forget what it was that led me to seek out this book—maybe a mention in Quiet?—but it's certainly unusual for me to read a book with a Christian spiritual message at its core. That's not why I was reading it, of course. What intrigued me was the idea of an examination of acedia as a condition or s...
Couldn't get into it. Reading other reviews, it seems like maybe this book needs to be taken slowly, so maybe I didn't do it justice. But it just didn't appeal to me, although I thought it might.
This is another of Kathleen Norris' books, published in 2008, so the most recent of the books she's written. I read "The Quotidian Mysteries" first, then this book, then her others in random order. The text of "The Quotidian Mysteries" is actually about a chapters worth of material in "Acedia and ...
This is actually the first book I read by Kathleen Norris, because I found the title intriguing. It is the text of a lecture the author gave in 1998 that was sponsored by the Center for Spirituality at Saint Mary's College at Notre Dame."Quotidian means occurring every day, belonging to every day; ...
Another Kathleen Norris book. This one is a collection of reflections based on the author's extended stay with a Benedictine monastery community over 2 nine month periods. She uses the liturgical calendar as a layout for her book, highlighting from time to time various saints days during the year....
As I have said earlier, I am on a kind of Kathleen Norris roll here...... Reading her books is kind of like peeling an onion. She is telling much the same story in every book, but from a different perspective. "Dakota" had to do with understanding her geographical roots. "The Cloister Walk" had t...
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