The Cloister Walk

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9781573225847
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (258 download)

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Book Synopsis The Cloister Walk by : Kathleen Norris

Download or read book The Cloister Walk written by Kathleen Norris and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1997-04-01 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 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.

Dakota

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Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 054752756X
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book Dakota written by Kathleen Norris and published by HMH. This book was released on 2001-04-06 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A deeply spiritual, deeply moving book” about life on the Great Plains, by the New York Times–bestselling author of The Cloister Walk (The New York Times Book Review). “With humor and lyrical grace,” Kathleen Norris meditates on a place in the American landscape that is at once desolate and sublime, harsh and forgiving, steeped in history and myth (San Francisco Chronicle). A combination of reporting and reflection, Dakota reminds us that wherever we go, we chart our own spiritual geography.

Walking with Kathleen Norris

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Publisher : Paulist Press
ISBN 13 : 0809144700
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Walking with Kathleen Norris by : Robert Waldron

Download or read book Walking with Kathleen Norris written by Robert Waldron and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fellow writer's response of his reading-journey through the work, both prose and poetry, of Kathleen Norris, author of the best selling The Cloister Walk. As in his other books, Walking with Thomas Merton and Walking with Henri Nouwen, Robert Waldron has devoted three seasons (spring, summer, fall) to reading the prose and poetry of Kathleen Norris. Norris is a major commentator on modern spirituality. This is the first full-length commentary on her work to be published. In order to get to know her, the author carefully read her work and responded to it in a daily journal. He chose the journal format because of its intimacy, allowing for spontaneity and quicksilver insights. The journal format also permits the reader a glimpse into the author's soul-scape and will inspire readers of this book to read Norris's work; especially her best selling book, The Cloister Walk. Waldron considers this to be one of the major spiritual autobiographies of the twentieth century, to be ranked with Thomas Merton's The Seven Storey Mountain.

The Virgin of Bennington

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9781573229135
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (291 download)

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Download or read book The Virgin of Bennington written by Kathleen Norris and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2002-04-02 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shy and sheltered as a young woman, Kathleen Norris wasn't prepared for the sex, drugs, and bohemianism of Bennington College in the late 1960s—and when she moved to New York City after graduation, it was a case of out of the frying pan and into the fire. In this chronicle, Norris remembers the education she received, both formal and fortuitous; the influence of her mentor Betty Kray, who shunned the spotlight while serving as a guiding force in the poetry world of the late 20th century; her encounters with such figures as James Merrill, Jim Carroll, Denise Levertov, Stanley Kunitz, Patti Smith, and Erica Jong; and her eventual decision to leave Manhattan for the less-crowded landscape she described so memorably in Dakota. This account of the making of a young writer will resonate with anyone who has stumbled bravely into a bigger world and found the poetry that lurks on rooftops and in railroad apartments—and with anyone who has enjoyed the blessings of inspiring teachers and great friends.

Amazing Grace

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9781573227216
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Amazing Grace written by Kathleen Norris and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1999-04-01 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Cloister Walk, a book about Christianity, spirituality, and rediscovered faith. Struggling with her return to the Christian church after many years away, Kathleen Norris found it was the language of Christianity that most distanced her from faith. Words like "judgment," "faith," "dogma," "salvation," "sinner"—even "Christ"—formed what she called her "scary vocabulary," words that had become so codified or abstract that their meanings were all but impenetrable. She found she had to wrestle with them and make them her own before they could confer their blessings and their grace. Blending history, theology, storytelling, etymology, and memoir, Norris uses these words as a starting point for reflection, and offers a moving account of her own gradual conversion. She evokes a rich spirituality rooted firmly in the chaos of everyday life—and offers believers and doubters alike an illuminating perspective on how we can embrace ancient traditions and find faith in the contemporary world.

The Quotidian Mysteries

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Publisher : Paulist Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809138012
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book The Quotidian Mysteries written by Kathleen Norris and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this insightful and deeply personal work, Kathleen Norris, an award-winning poet and author of both Dakota: A Spiritual Geography and The Cloister Walk, draws on her life experiences, her poetry and her love of the Benedictine tradition to discuss the mysterious way that the daily or "quotidian" can open us to the transforming presence of God." "This volume is the text of the 1998 Madeleva Lecture in Spirituality, sponsored by the Center for Spirituality at Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, Indiana."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Acedia & Me

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9781594489969
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (899 download)

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Download or read book Acedia & Me written by Kathleen Norris and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kathleen Norris's masterpiece: a personal and moving memoir that resurrects the ancient term acedia, or soul-weariness, and brilliantly explores its relevancy to the modern individual and culture.

Certain People of Importance

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Certain People of Importance written by Kathleen Norris and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Little Girls in Church

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Publisher : Pitt Poetry
ISBN 13 : 9780822955566
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book Little Girls in Church written by Kathleen Norris and published by Pitt Poetry. This book was released on 1995 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of poetry is a spiritual geography. Its places are varied--the grasslands and small towns of the western Dakotas, or the industrial landscape of northern New Jersey.

Embracing a Life of Meaning

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Publisher : Church Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1606741438
Total Pages : 93 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book Embracing a Life of Meaning written by Kathleen Norris and published by Church Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2012-07-01 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best-selling author Kathleen Norris provides a unique viewpoint of “what matters most,” including: Belief Matters: Why does belief matter? To what do we give our hearts? What is the core message of what we believe—creeds or commitment? To what extent is to believe also “to belove”? The Bible Matters: The Bible is our collective story. How is that story reflected in our daily lives? What is it about the Bible that always seems to address our present moment? Community Matters: In community, individualism and imperfection meet grace and acceptance. What is our part in the Body of Christ? Place Matters: In what ways is faith set within the physical space of home, church, land and people? We Matter: What it means to remain in God’s image and to counter our selfishness by embracing the world and its needs? Ideal for adult and young-adult small groups, Christian educators, clergy, chaplains and campus ministries. SOLD SEPARATELY. Also available is the Embracing a Life of Meaning Small-Group DVD. Each of the five DVD sessions begins with a 10-15 minute video presentation by Kathleen Norris followed by filmed interaction with a diverse small group of adults. This Participant’s Workbook then helps your own local small group “join the conversation.” This book includes all study materials need by participants and those who lead. Each participant will need one copy.

The Middle of the World

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Publisher : Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book The Middle of the World written by Kathleen Norris and published by Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Middle of the World reflects Norris's strong gifts as a storyteller and poet of place. The locales are New York City, where she formerly lived, and South Dakota west of the Missouri River, where she is business manager of a family farm that raises wheat, sunflowers, and Hereford cattle. "The poems are about these places," she writes, "and the more or less imagined lives in them: and also about family and inheritance; it was inheritance that moved me to South Dakota. Some of the poems are about faith: my own ideas as well as the traditional religious faith that is a thread running through my family history, both enhancing lives and running them."

The Cloister Walk

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101215666
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book The Cloister Walk written by Kathleen Norris and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1997-04-01 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 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.

Monk Habits for Everyday People

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Publisher : Brazos Press
ISBN 13 : 1441200401
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (412 download)

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Book Synopsis Monk Habits for Everyday People by : Dennis L. Okholm

Download or read book Monk Habits for Everyday People written by Dennis L. Okholm and published by Brazos Press. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In their zeal for reform, early Protestant leaders tended to throw out Saint Benedict with the holy water. That is a mistake, writes Dennis Okholm, in Monk Habits for Everyday People. While on retreat in a Benedictine abbey, the author, a professor who was raised as a Pentecostal and a Baptist, observed how the meditative and ordered life of a monk lifted Jesus' teachings off the printed page and put them into daily practice. Vital aspects of devotion, humility, obedience, hospitality, and evangelism took on new clarity and meaning. Paralleling that experience, Okholm guides the reader on a focused and instructive journey that can revitalize the devotional life of any Christian who wants to slow down and dig deeper.

Psalms Aloud

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Publisher : FilamentPublishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1905493541
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (54 download)

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Download or read book Psalms Aloud written by Maria Anaele-Kerr and published by FilamentPublishing Ltd. This book was released on 2010 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maria Anaele-Kerr has specially adapted each of the 150 Psalms into plural to make it easier for groups to pray together.

Walking with Thomas Merton

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Publisher : Paulist Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809140589
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (45 download)

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Book Synopsis Walking with Thomas Merton by : Robert G. Waldron

Download or read book Walking with Thomas Merton written by Robert G. Waldron and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An appreciation, in journal form, of Thomas Merton as spiritual writer, monk and poet.

Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby And Other Stories

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Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 936115527X
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (611 download)

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Download or read book Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby And Other Stories written by Kathleen Thompson Norris and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-02 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby" by means of Kathleen Thompson Norris is a compelling tale that delves into the complexities of human relationships and societal expectancies. The story unfolds round Margaret Kirby; a female whose lifestyles becomes intertwined with the lives of those round her. As Margaret navigates the challenges of love, sacrifice, and personal boom, the radical explores the impact of societal norms on person picks. Set towards the backdrop of the early twentieth century, the narrative weaves collectively issue of family dynamics, societal expectations, and the pursuit of personal achievement. Margaret's journey is marked with the aid of resilience and self-discovery as she confronts the constraints imposed by way of societal norms and seeks a direction genuine to her personal aspirations. Kathleen Thompson Norris crafts a nuanced and emotionally resonant story that captures the zeitgeist of the generation at the same time as addressing timeless subject matters. Through Margaret's reviews, the novel displays on the iconic human quest for identification, reason, and the pursuit of a meaningful existence inside the face of societal pressures.

The Psalms

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Publisher : Riverhead Trade (Paperbacks)
ISBN 13 : 9781573226479
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book The Psalms written by Kathleen Norris and published by Riverhead Trade (Paperbacks). This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the King James version of the Psalms of David.