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A Layman in the Desert: Monastic Wisdom for a Life in the World
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We Pray
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The God of the Cucumber Vine
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Hi everyone. Just a quick announcement that I have released a new novel. Hope you'll give it a read if you have a little time!
The God of the Cucumber Vine
The God of the Cucumber Vine
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"This… wasn’t a good book. It feels like it starts in the middle of the story, there’s no backstory or character development — only what the author mentions to suit the plot— it’s unclear what all the various characters’ motives are because they don’t"
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The Worst Masterpiece Ever Written The Magic Mountain is a truly magnificent literary accomplishment. The profound meditations on time, and on the interplay of life and death are well worth the journey. Like all great novelists, Mann raises many more ...more |
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"Aww... I hated to see this book end. This was the first time I've read anything by Canadian author Wayne Johnston and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Evocative of a unique time and place--rural, poor, Catholic Newfoundland at midcentury--from the vantage po"
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"I can't remember the last time I have so thoroughly come to love a fictional character the way I grew to love Count Rostov while reading this book. I want to meet him in heaven! "
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A really lovely book. It's a very slow novel, mostly moving between vignettes and character studies. But the prose and the vividness of O'Brien's writing make it so pleasant to spend time with the book that I didn't need much action. Like an afternoon ...more |
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“We often conceive of worldly life as merely a kind of default existence that anyone who is not specially called to monasticism or ordination sipmly ends up leading. We assume that it is only the monk, nun or priest who has a special call, while the married woman, for instance, has merely been passed by. [...] But we must not allow ourselves to approach it merely in these terms. Instead, every one of us should, indeed must, treat lay life as a calling just the way we think of monasticism and ordination. We must sit down with ourselves and with God in prayer to discern if life in the world really is what we are meant for, and if we discover that it is, we must reat this call with the same seriousness with which we would treat a call to a hermit's life in the desert. We are not lay people simply because we happen not to be monks or priests. We are lay people because God wills that we lead a life weeking our salvation through the world.”
― A Layman in the Desert: Monastic Wisdom for a Life in the World
― A Layman in the Desert: Monastic Wisdom for a Life in the World
“We often conceive of worldly life as merely a kind of default existence that anyone who is not specially called to monasticism or ordination simply ends up leading. We assume that it is only the monk, nun or priest who has a special call, while the married woman, for instance, has merely been passed by. [...] But we must not allow ourselves to approach it merely in these terms. Instead, every one of us should, indeed must, treat lay life as a calling just the way we think of monasticism and ordination. We must sit down with ourselves and with God in prayer to discern if life in the world really is what we are meant for, and if we discover that it is, we must reat this call with the same seriousness with which we would treat a call to a hermit's life in the desert. We are not lay people simply because we happen not to be monks or priests. We are lay people because God wills that we lead a life weeking our salvation through the world.”
― A Layman in the Desert: Monastic Wisdom for a Life in the World
― A Layman in the Desert: Monastic Wisdom for a Life in the World
“Tradition is not only a protective, conservative principle; it is, primarily, the principle of growth and regeneration… Tradition is the constant abiding of the Spirit and not only the memory of words.”
― The Orthodox Church: An Introduction to Eastern Christianity
― The Orthodox Church: An Introduction to Eastern Christianity
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