Combines a memoir and paean for modern monastic life. This book, featuring colorful characters, includes a foreword from Kathleen Norris, author of Dakota, Cloister Walk, and many other books.
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A View from a Monastery: The Vowed Life and Its Cast of Many Characters by Benet Tvedten (Brother)
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About Benet Tvedten (Brother)
Brother Benet Tvedten has been a Benedictine monk for almost fifty years. Entering Blue Cloud Abbey in the years before Vatican Council II, he has witnessed changes in monastic practice that were never anticipated or even imagined during his novitiate. Also the author of How to Be a Monastic and Not Leave Your Day Job, Brother Benet has been his community's Director of Oblates for thirty years. His work first came to national attention when Kathleen Norris wrote about him as her oblate director in her memoir, Dakota.
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GOR003393778
9781557254771
155725477X
A View from a Monastery: The Vowed Life and Its Cast of Many Characters by Benet Tvedten (Brother)
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