The View from a Monastery: The Vowed Life and Its Cast of Many Characters

Tvedten, Benet

ISBN 10: 155725477X / ISBN 13: 9781557254771

Published by Paraclete Pr, 2006

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The View from a Monastery: The Vowed Life and Its Cast of Many Characters
• Publisher: Paraclete Pr
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 155725477X
• ISBN 13: 9781557254771
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: very_good

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Synopsis

This is a guided behind the scenes tour of a typical monastery in the 21st century. This charming book is an insider’s look at some of the “cast of characters” called to live for god in a modern day monastery. There is a new foreword by Kathleen Norris included.

About the Author

Brother Benet Tvedten has been a Benedictine monk for almost fifty years. Entering Blue Cloud Abbey in the years before Vatican Council II, he has witnessed changes in monastic practice that were never anticipated or even imagined during his novitiate. Also the author of How to Be a Monastic and Not Leave Your Day Job, Brother Benet has been his community's Director of Oblates for thirty years. His work first came to national attention when Kathleen Norris wrote about him as her oblate director in her memoir, Dakota.