Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780814685068
Publisert
2021-11-01
Utgiver
Vendor
Liturgical Press
Vekt
425 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Dybde
16 mm
Aldersnivå
G, U, P, 01, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
248
Forfatter
Foreword by
Biographical note
National Endowment of the Arts Fellow Paula Huston is a longtime oblate of New Camaldoli Hermitage. The author of two novels and seven works of spiritual nonfiction, she lives with her husband Mike on four acres eighty miles south of Big Sur, where they grow olives, keep bees, and raise vegetables. She spends her days in the garden, the kitchen, and her writing studio, endlessly inspired by two devoted dogs and four fascinating grandchildren. She is a contributor to Give Us This Day, published by Liturgical Press.
Between World War II and Vatican II, as Italy struggled to rebuild after decades of Mussolini’s fascism, an eleventh-century order of contemplative monks in the Apennines were urged by Thomas Merton to found a daughter house on the rugged coast of California. A brilliant but world-weary ex-Jesuit, who had recently withdrawn from a high-intensity public life to go into reclusion at the ancient Sacro Eremo of Camaldoli, was tapped for the job. Based on notes kept for over sixty years by an early American novice at New Camaldoli Hermitage, The Hermits of Big Sur tellsthe compelling story of what unfolds within this small and idealistic community when medievalism must finally come to terms with modernism. It traces the call toward fuga mundi in the young seekers who arrive to try their vocations, only to discover that the monastic life requires much more of them than a bare desire for solitude. And it describes the miraculous transformation that sometimes occurs in individual monks after decades of lectio divina, silent meditation, liturgical faithfulness, and the communal bonds they have formed through the practice of the “privilege of love.”
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Contents Foreword by Pico Iyer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix Chapter 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Chapter 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Chapter 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Chapter 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Chapter 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Chapter 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Chapter 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Chapter 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Chapter 9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Chapter 10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Chapter 11 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Chapter 12 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 Chapter 13 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 Chapter 14 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 Chapter 15 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 Chapter 16 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 Chapter 17 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128 Chapter 18 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136 Chapter 19 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144 Chapter 20 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154 Chapter 21 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163 Chapter 22 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173 Afterword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183 Chronology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .193 Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204 Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217 Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
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"Absolutely fascinating, gorgeously written, frequently brilliant. In her story of how an ancient monastic order found a home in California, and how the author found a home with them, Paula Huston offers us an invitation into a world that few see, but all will want to experience."James Martin, SJ, author of Learning to Pray
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780814685068
Publisert
2021-11-01
Utgiver
Vendor
Liturgical Press
Vekt
425 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Dybde
16 mm
Aldersnivå
G, U, P, 01, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
248
Forfatter
Foreword by