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portada The Hermits of big sur
Type
Physical Book
Preface by
Year
2021
Language
English
Pages
248
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
22.9 x 15.5 x 1.5 cm
Weight
0.41 kg.
ISBN13
9780814685068

The Hermits of big sur

Paula Huston (Author) · Pico Iyer (Preface by) · Liturgical Press · Paperback

The Hermits of big sur - Huston, Paula ; Iyer, Pico

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Synopsis "The Hermits of big sur"

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 A brilliant but world-weary ex-Jesuit, who had recently withdrawn from a high-intensity public life to go into reclusion at the ancient Sacro Eremo of Camaldoli, was tapped for the job.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."

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