View from a Monastery The Vowed Live and Its Cast of Many Characters

Name: View from a Monastery The Vowed Live and Its Cast of Many Characters
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ISBN: 9781557254771

ISBN-10: 155725477X

ISBN-13: 9781557254771

Edition: 2006

Authors: Benet Tvedten, Kathleen Norris

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Combining memoir and paean for modern monastic life, Br. Benet Tvedten creates this charming book out of his love for his brothers, his place, his tradition. It has now been completely revised with many additional stories and colorful characters, and a new foreword from Kathleen Norris, author of Dakota, Cloister Walk, and many other books. It is often presumed that people who live in monasteries are either exceptionally holy or exceedingly strange. But A View from a Monastery portrays monks as ordinary men, some of whom are as quirky as the rest of us. Although monastic life differs from secular life in many remarkable ways, readers will discover that the monks themselves are not…

Book details

List price: $15.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Paraclete Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/1/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 173
Size: 5.50" wide x 7.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

Kathleen Norris is the award-winning author of "Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith"; "The Cloister Walk"; & the forthcoming "The Virgin of Bennington". She lives in South Dakota & Hawaii.



Foreword


Acknowledgments


The View From the Monastery


St. Benedict and His Rule


How The Monastery Came to Be Here


Legends


How I Came to be Here


High Liturgy/Low Liturgy


Bruder Felix


The Brother Instructor


Hands Under the Scapular, Please


Titles and Names


The Holy Habit


Profession


Even Love One Another


The Abbot


A Public Place


The Pilgrim


Are You Real People?


Can You Laugh?


Books


Prayer


Work


Let Me Sell You a Painting


The Tough Guy


Dogs


The Women in Our Lives


The Rural Life


The Gardener


The Nurse


The Missionary-Monk


Dining Out


Damien


At the Movies


The Telephone Problem


Did He Really Say That?


Padrecito


Where We Live


Miracles


Destruction


Neighborly Acts


Protestants and Poets


Ah Sure, That's What You Are


Seeking and Finding


Right Where We Belong


The Road We Take


The Last Benedictine Pastor of Devils Lake


The Saints in Our Cemetery


At Home


Alcoholics Anonymous and the Rule of St. Benedict


Telling the Truth