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Huston Paula Huston
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November 2021
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Liturgical Press
Published
November 2021
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Between World War II and Vatican II, as Italy struggled to rebuild after decades of Mussolini's fascism, an eleventh-century order of contemplative monks in the Apennines were urged by Thomas Merton to found a daughter house on the rugged coast of California. A brilliant but world-weary ex-Jesuit, who had recently withdrawn from a high-intensity public life to go into reclusion at the ancient Sacro Eremo of Camaldoli, was tapped for the job.
Based on notes kept for over sixty years by an early American novice at New Camaldoli Hermitage, The Hermits of Big Sur tellsthe compelling story of what unfolds within this small and idealistic community when medievalism must finally come to terms with modernism. It traces the call toward fuga mundi in the young seekers who arrive to try their vocations, only to discover that the monastic life requires much more of them than a bare desire for solitude. And it describes the miraculous transformation that sometimes occurs in individual monks after decades of lectio divina, silent meditation, liturgical faithfulness, and the communal bonds they have formed through the practice of the "privilege of love."
Author
Huston Paula Huston
Book Format
Paperback
Publisher
Liturgical Press
Published
November 2021
Weight
414g
Dimensions
155 x 229 x 15 mm
ISBN
9780814685068
ISBN-10
0814685064
Eden Code
5543147
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Author/Creator: Huston Paula Huston
ISBN: 9780814685068
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Release Date: November 2021
Weight: 414g
Dimensions: 155 x 229 x 15 mm
Eden Code: 5543147