Basil in Blunderland - Softcover

Basil Cardinal Hume

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1557252378 ISBN 13: 9781557252371

Publisher: Darton Longman & Todd Ltd, 1999

Synopsis

Arising out of a game of `hide-and-seek' that Cardinal Hume played many years ago with two young children, Basil in Blunderland is a book to enchant and inspire.

On the day the children invited him to play with them, he had not meditated, and as a monk he was required to do half an hour of mental prayer each day. How, he wondered, could he play hide-and-seek and, at the same time, meditate? As the book unfolds we see how each hiding place in fact became a place to pray and how each suggested thoughts about the spiritual life.

With characteristic humility, Cardinal Hume ventures the title Basil in Blunderland because, he says, his life has much more often been a wandering in Blunderland than a resting and relaxing in Wonderland. He has written a very personal book of profound simplicity that will help all of us make sense of our blundering and searching after God. It is a book for everyone, young or old, believer or agnostic. Few readers will fail to gain encouragement and help from the wisdom in its pages.

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From the Back Cover

"Now it is a fact that my spiritual life is more a wandering in Blunderland than a resting and relaxing in Wonderland. I would guess that most of us would say the same of ourselves. . . . What matters, however, is that minds and hearts should be involved in the search for God, where the seeking and the finding go hand in hand. It is the process of getting to know God and learning to love Him. It is intimacy with Him that we seek. We try to go beyond every experience of knowledge and love, which we have now, to another experience, which is beyond our grasp but not entirely out of reach." From Basil in Blunderland

About the Author

Until his death in June 1999, Basil Hume, OSB, was the Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster and a monk of Ampleforth Abbey in Great Britain. One of the best-known and best-loved religious figures in the United Kingdom, he has written several books including To be a Pilgrim, Searching for God, The Mystery of Love and Footprints of the Northern Saints.

About this edition

• Publisher: Darton Longman & Todd Ltd
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1557252378
• ISBN 13: 9781557252371
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 62
• Illustrator: Sarah John