The Cloister Walk
By Kathleen Norris
By Kathleen Norris
By Kathleen Norris
By Kathleen Norris
Category: Religion | Meditation & Mindfulness | Philosophy
Category: Religion | Meditation & Mindfulness | Philosophy
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$16.00
Apr 01, 1997 | ISBN 9781573225847
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Apr 01, 1997 | ISBN 9781101215661
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Praise
“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
Awards
Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Award WINNER
Books for a Better Life Book Award WINNER
Table Of Contents
Preface
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
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