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|  | | Clare: Her Light and Her Song
The most complete biography of St. Clare of Assisi available in English. Companion of St. Francis and foundress of the female branch of the Franciscans.
Clare: Her Light and Her Song is a vivid portrait of a strong woman who scandalizes family and friends to follow her beloved mentor, Francis of Assisi, in a life of joyous poverty. Thoroughly researched, this biography faithfully depicts Clares as seen by her contemporaries, including cardinals and popes. Her story is enriched by accounts of the wars, political intrigues and towering figures of the tumultous thirteenth century in which she played a significant role. The first woman to receive Papal approval for her own Rule of Life, Clare continues as a model for women of the twenty-first c | |  | | Consider the Ravens, On Contemporary Hermit Life
If you have ever wondered about how hermits live, or if you are an active member of the eremitical life, then it's time to make this ultimate resource guide part of your personal library.
Written by the editors of Raven's Bread, Food for Those in Solitude, an international quarterly newsletter that provices guidance on hermit life, "Consider the Ravens" is a seminal study on eremitism as it has developed since the 1950's.
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li>all aspects of the vocation, including spiritual, practical and juridical;/li>
li>hazards of the hidden life;/li>
li>practical recommendations for beginners;/li>
li>extensive citations from desert fathers and mothers;/li>
li>expositions of contemporary hermits and their expe | |  | | Where God Begins to Be, A Woman's Journey into Solitude
Karper describes a world where life is rich in being rather than having. Her hermit life in a West Virginia holler is told via deftly drawn vignettes which draw the reader into a spiritual world.
p style="text-align: justify">Karen Karper (Fredette) left a monastery in Ohio where she'd spent thirty years to migrate to rural West Virginia in 1989 to spend six years as a hermit in voluntary poverty and simplicity. In this inspiring, vividly composed and always faithful book, she describes a world where life is rich in i>being /i>rather than in i>having/i>. Selected as a Catholic Book of the Month, "i>Where God Begins to Be"/i> fulfills Murray Bodo's observation that "...instead of myth fabricated from a few fragments, we have here the details -- the nitty-gritty, mu | |  | | Where God is Ever Found, From Cloister to Couple, A Woman's Autumn Journey
In a candid, poetic style, Karen weaves "God-rich" incidents from her four lives - eldest daughter, cloistered nun, solitary hermit and married hermit - into a tapestry sparked with humor, honesty and vulnerability, revealing the God who sets the pattern and throws the shuttle. Find love equals finding God.
Hermits are a rare breed. Married hermits are abotu as common as spotted owls. Marry a Roman Catholic priest to a former nun, nest them in a mountainside hermitage named Still Wood, and you may have a brand new species. This memoir is a three-way love saga - God, a priest and a nun joined to minister to hermits world-wide from the isolated mountaincounty of "Bloody Madison", North Carolina.
Unexpectedly, my autumn years shifted from a single woman's story to a shared journey when I met and married a Paul Fredette, my former pastor. Now we min |
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