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Dawn -- September 3: Gregory the Great -- St. Johns 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: Thrse 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 -- A story with dragons: the Book of Revelation -- 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 laundrys done -- Dreaming of trees -- Monks and women -- July 11: Benedicts 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 mans life -- Its a sweet life -- Coming and going: monastic rituals -- The rest of the community -- The only city in America -- Night.
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The Cloister Walk is a new opportunity to discover a remarkable
writer with a huge, wise heart.... Norris resonates deeply for a lot
of people: Shes one of those writers who demands to be handed
around. You want to share this great discovery, giving her work as
a giftor you simply shove a copy in the face of a friend, saying,
Read this.
writer with a huge, wise heart.... Norris resonates deeply for a lot
of people: Shes one of those writers who demands to be handed
around. You want to share this great discovery, giving her work as
a giftor you simply shove a copy in the face of a friend, saying,
Read this.
Minneapolis Star-Tribune
A deeply moving encounter with the heart and mind of a writer
devoted to the highest level of inquiry.
Booklist
The allure of the monastic life baffles most laypeople, but Norris
goes far in explaining it.... What emerges, finally, is an affecting
portraitone of the most vibrant since Mertonsof the misunderstood,
often invisible world of the monastics.
Publishers Weekly
Norris presents ample proof that holy people dont have to be
starchy... If you learn anything from The Cloister Walk, its that
monks are people too. They gossip, crack jokes, fall asleep in
church, suffer through depression and doubt like the rest of us. On
the other hand, if Norris has accomplished what she sets out to
do, youll close the book feeling just the slightest bit holier yourself.
... Its hard not to admire Norriss determination to rediscover
monastic principles and try to explain them to a world that
often seems godless, bereft of spirituality. And its instructive, even
inspiring at times, to see how she applies what shes learned to
everything she does. Perhaps theres hope for spiritual life outside
the cloister after all.
Newsday
Luminous... Norriss feel for the poetry she finds in the liturgy
is one of the most potent parts of the book.
San Francisco Chronicle
When several years ago I read Dakota: A Spiritual Geography, poet
Kathleen Norriss first prose book, I was struck by her apparent reinvention
of nonfiction. Little writing that is published now can truly
be called new.... Yet Norris reminded me then, and still reminds
me now, that some new things may remain to be done with facts
and with words.... [In The Cloister Walk] Norris continues to write
plain-spoken meditations that expand the purview of nonfiction....
She writes about religion with the imagination of a poet. She broadens
any theme, no matter how narrow; she never preaches. She also
writes with a refreshing sense of worldly attachment. The sturdiness
of her writing style complements a sturdiness of spiritual outlook
honed on humility and liberated by her mischievous sense of
humor.... In reading Norris, one comes to feel like a spiritual
collaborator and, when ones spirit fails, like a spiritual rebel.
Molly McQuade, Chicago Tribune
The Cloister Walk is nothing less than a gift of insight borne by
the spare words of a careful artist... [It] is one of those rare books
too rich to race through. It will feed a readers mind more fully if
it is read like daily passages of scripture in a lectionary.
Kansas City Star
Norris... acts as a sympathetic and perceptive outsider.... A
down-to-earth and accessible introduction to a powerful tradition.
Kirkus Reviews
[Dakota] was a lyrical, documentary homage to a place, but also
a modest, telling insistence on immanence... [Norris] paid attention
with knowing devotion to a social and moral landscape;
gave grateful respect to the individuals who have clung to it, often
against great odds; and rendered what she had witnessed with a
meditative intensity and originality worthy of James Agees response
over a half-century ago to Hale County, Alabama, or
William Carlos Williamss extended examination in verse of Paterson,
New Jerseya tradition of watchfulness and evocation
that in form defies literary genres and in content mixes concrete
description with spells of soulful inwardness suggestively put into
words. In The Cloister Walk, persisting in her wonderfully idiosyncratic
ways, she gives us the result of an immersion into a liturgical
world.... In these last years of the second millennium, when
whirl and whim rule, when there is so much snide and sneering cynicism
around (in politics, in the arts, in criticism)... talented visionaries
[such as Norris] point us in another direction: toward an
embrace of moral and spiritual contemplationone that is blessedly
free of the pietistic self-righteousness increasingly prominent
in our present-day civic life.
Robert Coles, The New York Times Book Review
When several years ago I read Dakota: A Spiritual Geography, poet
Kathleen Norriss first prose book, I was struck by her apparent reinvention
of nonfiction. Little writing that is published now can truly
be called new.... Yet Norris reminded me then, and still reminds
me now, that some new things may remain to be done with facts
and with words.... [In The Cloister Walk] Norris continues to write
plain-spoken meditations that expand the purview of nonfiction....
She writes about religion with the imagination of a poet. She broadens
any theme, no matter how narrow; she never preaches. She also
writes with a refreshing sense of worldly attachment. The sturdiness
of her writing style complements a sturdiness of spiritual outlook
honed on humility and liberated by her mischievous sense of
humor.... In reading Norris, one comes to feel like a spiritual
collaborator and, when ones spirit fails, like a spiritual rebel.
Molly McQuade, Chicago Tribune
Kathleen Norriss first prose book, I was struck by her apparent reinvention
of nonfiction. Little writing that is published now can truly
be called new.... Yet Norris reminded me then, and still reminds
me now, that some new things may remain to be done with facts
and with words.... [In The Cloister Walk] Norris continues to write
plain-spoken meditations that expand the purview of nonfiction....
She writes about religion with the imagination of a poet. She broadens
any theme, no matter how narrow; she never preaches. She also
writes with a refreshing sense of worldly attachment. The sturdiness
of her writing style complements a sturdiness of spiritual outlook
honed on humility and liberated by her mischievous sense of
humor.... In reading Norris, one comes to feel like a spiritual
collaborator and, when ones spirit fails, like a spiritual rebel.
Molly McQuade, Chicago Tribune
The Cloister Walk is nothing less than a gift of insight borne by
the spare words of a careful artist... [It] is one of those rare books
too rich to race through. It will feed a readers mind more fully if
it is read like daily passages of scripture in a lectionary.
Kansas City Star
Norris... acts as a sympathetic and perceptive outsider.... A
down-to-earth and accessible introduction to a powerful tradition.
Kirkus Reviews
[Dakota] was a lyrical, documentary homage to a place, but also
a modest, telling insistence on immanence... [Norris] paid attention
with knowing devotion to a social and moral landscape;
gave grateful respect to the individuals who have clung to it, often
against great odds; and rendered what she had witnessed with a
meditative intensity and originality worthy of James Agees response
over a half-century ago to Hale County, Alabama, or
William Carlos Williamss extended examination in verse of Paterson,
New Jerseya tradition of watchfulness and evocation
that in form defies literary genres and in content mixes concrete
description with spells of soulful inwardness suggestively put into
words. In The Cloister Walk, persisting in her wonderfully idiosyncratic
ways, she gives us the result of an immersion into a liturgical
world.... In these last years of the second millennium, when
whirl and whim rule, when there is so much snide and sneering cynicism
around (in politics, in the arts, in criticism)... talented visionaries
[such as Norris] point us in another direction: toward an
embrace of moral and spiritual contemplationone that is blessedly
free of the pietistic self-righteousness increasingly prominent
in our present-day civic life.
Robert Coles, The New York Times Book Review
Kathleen Norris
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