In Praise Of The Useless Life

Author : Paul Quenon
Publisher : Ave Maria Press
ISBN 13 : 1594717605
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Praise of the Useless Life written by Paul Quenon and published by Ave Maria Press. This book was released on 2018-04-13 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monastic life and its counter-cultural wisdom come alive in the stories and lessons of Br. Paul Quenon, O.C.S.O., during his more than five decades as a Trappist at the Abbey of Gethsemani. He served as a novice under Thomas Merton and he also welcomed some of the monastery's more well-known visitors, including Sr. Helen Prejean and Seamus Heaney, to Merton's hermitage. In Praise of the Useless Life includes Quenon's quiet reflections on what it means to live each day with careful attentiveness. The humble peace and simplicity of the monastery and of Quenon's daily life are beautifully portrayed in this memoir. Whether it be through the daily routine of the monastery, his love of the outdoors no matter the season, or his lively and interesting conversations with visitors (reciting Emily Dickinson with Pico Iyer, discussing Merton and poetry with Czeslaw Milosz), Quenon's gentle musings display his love for the beauty in his vocation and the people he’s encountered along the way. Inspired by his novice master Merton, the poet and photographer’s stories remind us that the beauty of life can best be seen in the "uselessness" of daily life—having a quiet chat with a friend, spending time in contemplation—in our vocations, and in the memories we make along the way.

Author : LynnMarie Rink
Publisher : Post Hill Press
ISBN 13 : 1618688499
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wrap Your Heart Around It written by LynnMarie Rink and published by Post Hill Press. This book was released on 2016-03-15 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Grammy-nominated artist and TV production professional LynnMarie Rink and her husband decided to start a family, her worst fears were realized—the doctor told the couple their baby would be born with Down syndrome. With humor and honesty, Wrap Your Heart Around It reveals LynnMarie’s unique take on some heavy topics like depression, Down syndrome and co-dependency. LynnMarie’s strength and conviction shows how we can let go of fear and hurt to move forward and live in the now. “LynnMarie's transparency and testimony in this book will captivate and touch you." - Brenda Epperson, actress and co-chair of Ascend Women’s Conference "This is a beautiful account of her journey of faith and unconditional love that will keep you laughing and crying." - Kathleen Cooke, co-founder of Cooke Pictures and The Influence Lab

Author : Judith Valente
Publisher : Red Wheel/Weiser
ISBN 13 : 1642970344
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Be written by Judith Valente and published by Red Wheel/Weiser. This book was released on 2021 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The spiritual seeker's guide to living with authenticity and integrity in troubled times. This book is a dialogue between two spiritual seekers--one a Trappist monk and the other a married professional woman. It is two people "stuttering to articulate life's universal questions from diverse contexts and perspectives." Brother Paul writes as one steeped in silence and the daily rhythms of the ancient prayer practices of monasticism. Judith Valente writes as a professional woman attempting to bring a sense of prayer and contemplation to a scattered life in the secular world. Valente uses the story of Brother Paul's interview for a PBS documentary as a jumping-off point: When asked the purpose of the Trappist life in the modern world, he said that it is "to show you don't need a purpose." The purpose of life, he said, is life. "You're to live your life." How to Be offers a window into two people living their lives on purpose (or not) and struggling to come to terms with the big issues everyone faces: faith, mortality, mystery, prayer, work. It is a book that provides insight and inspiration for those walking the spiritual path--particularly for those interested in the contemplative path.

Author : Dolores Stewart Riccio
Publisher : Kensington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780758209863
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Divine Circle Of Ladies Making Mischief written by Dolores Stewart Riccio and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transporting readers once again into the enchanting world of Cass Shipton and her circle of friends in idyllic Plymouth, Massachusetts, this is Dolores Stewart Riccio's richest, most satisfying novel yet.

Author : Bertrand Russell
Publisher : Unwin Hyman
ISBN 13 : 9780043040065
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays written by Bertrand Russell and published by Unwin Hyman. This book was released on 1976 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intolerance and bigotry lie at the heart of all human suffering. So claims Bertrand Russell at the outset of "In Praise of Idleness," a collection of essays in which he espouses the virtues of cool reflection and free enquiry; a voice of calm in a world of maddening unreason. With characteristic clarity and humour, Russell surveys the social and political consequences of his beliefs. From a devastating critique of the ancestry of fascism to a vehement defense of 'useless' knowledge, with consideration given to everything from insect pests to the human soul, " In Praise of Idleness " is a tour de force that only Bertrand Russell could perform.

Author : Paul Quenon
Publisher : Paraclete Poetry
ISBN 13 : 9781640602014
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Amounting to Nothing written by Paul Quenon and published by Paraclete Poetry. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After 60 years at Gethsemani Abbey, Br. Paul follows up his recent memoir, In Praise of the Useless Life, with a poetic collection that shows how to do just that - by writing poetry. Amounting to Nothing is both practical and metaphysical, a puzzling over the ultimate things of life, and a descending on the Benedictine ladder of humility to the earthly creatures surrounding a Kentucky monastery. This is less an exploration in self-knowledge than a forgetting of self in the wonders of everything. Quenon treads bare footed on the margins of mortality and immortality, with wit, thought, and hope.

Author : Sait Faik Abasiyanik
Publisher : Archipelago
ISBN 13 : 0914671081
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Useless Man written by Sait Faik Abasiyanik and published by Archipelago. This book was released on 2015-02-24 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With all the wit and brilliance of Chekhov, a distinctive collection of lyrical stories from Sait Faik Abasıyanık, “Turkey’s greatest short story writer” (The Guardian) Sait Faik Abasıyanık’s fiction traces the interior lives of strangers in his native Istanbul: ancient coffeehouse proprietors, priests, dream-addled fishermen, poets of the Princes’ Isles, lovers and wandering minstrels of another time. The stories in A Useless Man are shaped by Sait Faik’s political autobiography – his resistance to social convention, the relentless pace of westernization, and the ethnic cleansing of his city – as he conjures the varied textures of life in Istanbul and its surrounding islands. The calm surface of these stories might seem to signal deference to the new Republic’s restrictions on language and culture, but Abasıyanık’s prose is crafted deceptively, with dark, subversive undercurrents. “Reading these stories by Sait Faik feels like finding the secret doors inside of poems,” Rivka Galchen wrote. Beautifully translated by Maureen Freely and Alexander Dawe, A Useless Man is the most comprehensive collection of Sait Faik’s stories in English to date.

Author : Judith Valente
Publisher : Ave Maria Press
ISBN 13 : 1933495596
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Atchison Blue written by Judith Valente and published by Ave Maria Press. This book was released on 2013-09-09 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this meditative spiritual memoir, Judith Valente, celebrated PBS religion journalist and celebrated poet, invites readers along on her transformative pilgrimages to Mount St. Scholastica monastery in Atchison, Kansas. The Benedictine sisters who invited Valente presented her with a view of monastic life and wisdom that brought spiritual healing to her fast-paced life--and promises to do the same for her readers. The first time Judith Valente arrived at Mount St. Scholastica monastery, she came prepared to teach a course on poetry and the soul. Instead, she found herself the student, taking lessons from the Benedictine sisters in the healing nature of silence, how to cultivate habits of mindful living, and the freeing reality that conversion is a lifelong process. With the heart of a poet and the eye of a journalist, she tells how her many visits and interviews with the Benedictine sisters forced her to confront aspects of her own life that needed healing--a journey that will invite readers to healing of their own. A beautiful and heartfelt work that crosses The Cloister Walk with Tuesdays with Morrie, Atchison Blue will resonate with readers of Thomas Merton, Henri Nouwen, Mary Gordon, and Anne Lamott.

Author : Gregory K. Hillis
Publisher : Liturgical Press
ISBN 13 : 0814684602
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Man of Dialogue written by Gregory K. Hillis and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How Catholic was Thomas Merton? Since his death in 1968, Merton’s Catholic identity has been regularly questioned, both by those who doubt the authenticity of his Catholicism given his commitment to ecumenical and interreligious dialogue and by those who admire Merton as a thinker but see him as an aberration who rebelled against his Catholicism to articulate ideas that went against the church. In this book, Gregory K. Hillis illustrates that Merton’s thought was intertwined with his identity as a Catholic priest and emerged out of a thorough immersion in the church’s liturgical, theological, and spiritual tradition. In addition to providing a substantive introduction to Merton’s life and thought, this book illustrates that Merton was fundamentally shaped by his identity as a Roman Catholic.

Author : James Martin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780829421194
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Celebrating Good Liturgy written by James Martin and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These artilces, derived from a popular series in "America" magazine, show how the Church's central act of worship can be a richer experience for everyone. They offer a wealth of practical advice to deepen Catholics' appreciation of the Mass. (Catholic)