She shows us, from the rare perspective of someone who is both insider and outsider, how immersion in the cloistered world - its liturgy, its rituals, its sense of community - can impart meaning to everyday events and deepen our secular lives. In The Cloister Life, the celebrated author. In the books preface, author Kathleen Norris admits that in the past she has employed literature as a substitute for religion in her life (p. Writing with lyrical grace, Kathleen Norris here takes us through a liturgical year, as she experienced it both within the monastery and outside it. For more than 10 years, thoroughly Protestant Kathleen Norris had been an oblate at a Benedictine monastery. By coming to understand the Benedictine practice of celibacy, she felt her own marriage enriched through the communal reading aloud of the psalms every day, her notion of the ancient oral tradition of poetry came to life and even the mundane task of laundry took on new meaning through the lens of Benedictine ritual. The Boston Globe'The Cloister Walk is a new opportunity to discover a remarkable writer with a huge, wise heart.Norris resonates deeply for a lot of people: Shes one of those writers who demands to be handed around. She found that in the monastery, time slowed down, offering a new perspective on community, family, and even small-town life. The cloister walk by Kathleen Norris, 1996, Riverhead Books edition, in English It looks like youre. Yet upon leaving the monastery, she began to feel herself transformed, and the daily events of her life on the Great Plains - from her morning walk to her going to sleep at night - gradually took on new meaning.
Why would a married woman with a thoroughly Protestant background and often more doubt than faith be drawn to the ancient practice of monasticism, to a community of celibate men whose days are centered around a rigid schedule of prayer, work, and scripture? This is the question that Kathleen Norris herself asks as, somewhat to her own surprise, she found herself on two extended residencies at a Benedictine monastery.
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