The Cloister Walk

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