Dawn -- September 3 : Gregory the Great -- St. John's 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 : Thèrése 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 Eygpt -- Saved by a Rockette.

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Publisher's Weekly

Poet Kathleen Norris' account of her two extended retreats at Benedictine monasteries and the resulting enrichment of her marriage, her daily life, and her poetry.

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