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Cloister Walk by Kathleen Norris (1997, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherPenguin Publishing Group
ISBN-101573225843
ISBN-139781573225847
eBay Product ID (ePID)827550
Product Key Features
Book TitleCloister Walk
Number of Pages416 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicSpirituality, Mindfulness & Meditation, Christian Rituals & Practice / Worship & Liturgy, Monasticism, Christian Rituals & Practice / General, Literary
Publication Year1997
FeaturesReprint
GenreBody, Mind & Spirit, Religion, Biography & Autobiography
AuthorKathleen Norris
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1.1 in
Item Weight12.8 Oz
Item Length8.2 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN96-000863
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Edition21
Reviews"In The Cloister Walk , persisting in [Norris's] wonderfully idiosyncratic ways, she gives us the result of an 'immersion into a liturgical world'... She is one of hisotyr's writing pilgrims but also a contemporary American one, boldly willing to forsake any number of cultural fads, trends, and preoccupations in favor of this 'walk,' this searching expedition within herself." --The New York Times Book Review "Norris continues to write plainspoken meditations that expand the purview of non-fiction... She writes about religion with the imagination of a poet... In reading Norris, one comse to feel like a spiritual collaborate and, when one's spirit fails, like a spiritual rebel." -- Chicago Tribune "With her lucid, luminous prose, hardheaded logic, and far-reaching metaphors, Norris has brought us the cloister at its most alive." --San Francisco Chronicle " The Cloister Walk is a new opportunity to discover a remarkable writer with a huge, wise heart... you want to share this great discovery, giving her work as a gift-- or you simply shove a copy in the face of a friend, saying, 'Read this.'" -- Minneapolis Star-Tribune "Norris presents ample proof that holy people don't have to be starchy... If you learn anything from The Cloister Walk, it's that monks are people too. They gossip, crack jokes, fall asleep in church, suffer through depression and doubt like the rest of us.... Perhaps there's hope for spiritual life outside the cloister after all." -- Newsday, "In The Cloister Walk , persisting in [Norris's] wonderfully idiosyncratic ways, she gives us the result of an 'immersion into a liturgical world'... She is one of hisotyr's writing pilgrims but also a contemporary American one, boldly willing to forsake any number of cultural fads, trends, and preoccupations in favor of this 'walk,' this searching expedition within herself." --The New York Times Book Review "Norris continues to write plainspoken meditations that expand the purview of non-fiction... She writes about religion with the imagination of a poet... In reading Norris, one comse to feel like a spiritual collaborate and, when one's spirit fails, like a spiritual rebel." -- Chicago Tribune "With her lucid, luminous prose, hardheaded logic, and far-reaching metaphors, Norris has brought us the cloister at its most alive." --San Francisco Chronicle " The Cloister Walk is a new opportunity to discover a remarkable writer with a huge, wise heart... you want to share this great discovery, giving her work as a gift-- or you simply shove a copy in the face of a friend, saying, 'Read this.'" -- Minneapolis Star-Tribune "Norris presents ample proof that holy people don't have to be starchy... If you learn anything from The Cloister Walk, it's that monks are people too. They gossip, crack jokes, fall asleep in church, suffer through depression and doubt like the rest of us.... Perhaps there's hope for spiritual life outside the cloister after all." -- Newsday
Grade FromTwelfth Grade
Grade ToUP
Dewey Decimal255.9/7
Edition DescriptionReprint
Table Of ContentPreface 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
SynopsisA 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.
LC Classification NumberBX2435.N57
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- Apr 27, 2021
Cloister Walk
This is a second reading for me as it was so interesting a well written by the author Kathleen Norris.Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
