The Cloister Walk by Norris, Kathleen [Paperback]

Description: 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. 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. 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

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EAN: 9781573225847

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Book Title: Cloister Walk

Number of Pages: 416 Pages

Language: English

Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group

Publication Year: 1997

Item Height: 1 in

Topic: Mindfulness & Meditation, Spirituality, Christian Rituals & Practice / Worship & Liturgy, Christian Rituals & Practice / General, Monasticism, General, Literary

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Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit, Religion, Biography & Autobiography

Item Weight: 12.6 Oz

Item Length: 8.2 in

Author: Kathleen Norris

Item Width: 5.5 in

Format: Trade Paperback