No End to the Search: Experiencing Monastic Life (Volume 50) (Monastic Wisdom Series) - Softcover

Plaiss, Mark

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0879071508 ISBN 13: 9780879071509

Publisher: Liturgical Press, 2017

Synopsis

A monastery is not just for monks. Laypeople enjoy visiting monasteries and learning from the women and men who live there. The silence of the monastery is a retreat from the clatter and bluster of city and suburb. In No End to the Search Mark Plaiss, married with a wife, children, and grandchildren, writes of his visits to various monasteries while striving to delve into the experience and meaning of monasticism. What is behind that wall? What is the appeal of monastic life? To what degree can such a life be lived by persons who are married, and why would they wish to do so? This book explores the relationship between the vowed life of monks and the life of laypersons who are unable to live such vows but desire to share just a sliver of it.

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About the Author

Deacon Mark Plaiss teaches in the department of religious studies at Carmel Catholic High School, Mundelein, Illinois. Since 1997 he has been a monastic associate at New Melleray Abbey, near Dubuque, Iowa. He was ordained deacon in the Roman Catholic Church on June 7, 2003, at the Cathedral of the Holy Angels in the Diocese of Gary and is currently serving at St. Gilbert Church in Grayslake, Illinois. He tries to pass on the monastic wisdom he has absorbed over the years from New Melleray and other monasteries to his students and parishioners.

Edition details

• Publisher: Liturgical Press
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0879071508
• ISBN 13: 9780879071509
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192