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Title: The Genesee Diary by Henri Nouwen ISBN: 0-385-17446-2 Publisher: Image Books Pub. Date: 20 February, 1981 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.88 (8 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Spirtual Guide that Made an Impression
Comment: Have you ever wondered how a monk deals with everday life? This book is written in diary format and is very easy to read. Henri speaks honestly from his heart of the joys and tribulations of monastic life. I found that I'm not alone with alot of the thoughts I have...Henri has had them too.
Once I started reading this diary I couldn't hardly put it down!
Definately one of the better books I have read in a long time.
Also very profound remarks in this book. I'm sure I'll be reading it again.
Rating: 4
Summary: Fascinating Look Inside a Monastery
Comment: Henri Nouwen's diary recounts his 7-month stay at the Abbey of Genesee in New York. His diary is a personal account of his search for peace and total committment to God. It accurately depicts the regimen of life in the monastery - a life of work, prayer, and liturgy - and describes how he became a member of the monastic community.
Through his time there, Nouwen discovers that the monastery is not built to solve problems, but to praise God in the midst of them.
Rating: 5
Summary: Nouwen at his best...
Comment: The Late Henri Nouwen ,of blessed memory, was a Dutch Catholic priest who was able to put his spiritual longings[and lackings] into print and a level that I do not think has been matched in the past century.Certainly, Thomas Merton was a better writer and more influential, though Nouwen gave us his doubt at an unprecendented depth. In this duiary, first published in the mid-70's , he went to Piffard , NY to live with the Trappists of the Genesse for 8 months[he later went back, and produced another book of meditations]It was fortuitous that he met the abbot, Fr John Eudes Bamberger, and found a man to whom he could pour himself out. The abbot [he is still abbot,by the way,and has his own website}is an MD, psychaitrist and a man of deep prayer. Much of the book is the the conferences of Nouwen and the Abbot, though a greter portion is Nouwens musings on life, his frustrations, his enthusiamims[wich were many and childlike in thier intensity] and his prayer.His descriptions of back breaking manuel labor,of sorting raisins{the monks produce a regionally famous bread, called,of course, monks bread]and of normal, everyday fears and phobias are wonderful, insightful and inspiring. The Late Fr. Nouwen wrote scores of books, though thisis in my estimation his finest.
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Title: Voices of Silence : Lives of the Trappists Today by Frank Bianco ISBN: 0385424302 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 01 July, 1992 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The View from a Monastery by Brother Benet Tvedten ISBN: 1573228176 Publisher: Riverhead Books Pub. Date: 12 June, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: The Wounded Healer by Henri Nouwen ISBN: 0385148038 Publisher: Image Books Pub. Date: 02 February, 1979 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Return of the Prodigal Son by Henri Nouwen ISBN: 0385473079 Publisher: Image Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 1994 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Life of the Beloved: Spiritual Living in a Secular World by Henri J. M. Nouwen ISBN: 0824519868 Publisher: Crossroad/Herder & Herder Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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