The Cloister Walk

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DESCRIPTION: Located in beautiful inner Cloisters area of Devington Park is this light and spacious first floor two bedroom apartment. The author conveys several times her complete astonishment at finding herself a resident in a monastery. Soon after moving to the rural prairie, Norris developed a relationship with the nearby Benedictine abbey, which led to her eventually becoming an oblate. A married woman, throughly Protestant and often with more doubts than faith, Katheen Norris finds herself drawn to the ancient practice of monasticism, to a community of celibrate men whose days are centred around a rigid schedule of prayer and work.If you like to read technical manuals and books with finely structured outlines, you will probably not like this book. In the book’s preface, author Kathleen Norris admits that in the past she has employed literature as a substitute for religion in her life (p.

No missing or damaged pages, no creases or tears, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins. Do you think the Catholic church should continue to require its priests, nuns, and monks to make this vow? I was surprised by how much I liked this one too- I’ve had it on my shelf for years, and picked it up very uncertainly, but so glad I did. I started this book at the same time I started to read a psalm every day and the accompanying commentary on the Enduring Word commentary site. This book is a collection of sketches from inside the monastery, from monastic history, from her own small town, from her vacations, and from the cities she has lived and worked in.

Newsday, "In The Cloister Walk , persisting in [Norris's] wonderfully idiosyncratic ways, she gives us the result of an 'immersion into a liturgical world'. Any reader seeking a meaningful life – not necessarily a religious one – will be inspired by author Kathleen Norris’s experiences among monks who, while so little understood in our society, are admirable bearers of tradition, incorporating in their lives the values of stability, silence, and humility that we so desperately need, yet relentlessly avoid. The most obvious comparison for this book is Patrick Leigh Fermor’s A Time to Keep Silence, which I read last year. It points us toward truth by “connecting disparate elements in ways that the reasoning mind resists.

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Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item. Norris is more interested in her own thoughts and feelings about the subjects of monasticism and religion than in what anyone else has to say about them. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.But there is no doubting her conviction, exemplified in her defense of the much-maligned Catholic ""virgin martyrs,"" whose relevance and heroism she wants to redeem for feminists. I honestly think that this was a way of fighting the Contract for America folks by letting them see how much she was “one of them” and loved what they loved, so then she could say what she said about their version of Christianity. If our work brings you any hope and a sense of belonging, then please consider supporting our labor of love with a donation. There’s value in both, but I thought Norris’ book likely approached what it was like to live as a member of a monastic community far more than Fermor did.