Grace in the desert : awakening to the gifts of monastic life /
Slattery, Dennis Patrick,1944-
San Francisco : Jossey-Bass,
c2004.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 143-148).
A need to reconnect : preparing for the pilgrimage -- The road on no map : New Camaldoli Hermitage, Big Sur, California -- An isolato dogged by divinity : the Carmelite House of Prayer, Oakville, California -- Meditations out of time : Sonoma Mountain Zen Center, Santa Rosa, California -- Loneliness does not retreat : Monastery of Mount Tabor, Redwood Valley, California -- Nature's mystical muse : Our Lady of Guadalupe Trappist Abbey, Lafayette, Oregon -- Sisters who make much of time : Shalom Prayer Center, Queen of Angels Monastery, Mount Angel, Oregon -- St. Francis and a spider's web : Franciscan Renewal Center, Portland, Oregon -- Lowing cows and abandoned heifers : Our Lady of Trinity Trappist Monastery, Huntsville, Utah -- Breathless in the darkness of God : Nada Hermitage, Crestone, Colorado -- A hermit in the fridge : Dominican Retreat House, Albuquerque, New Mexico -- Christ and the Hohokam people : Picture Rocks Retreat Center, Tucson, Arizona.
Slattery, Dennis Patrick, 1944-
Monasteries
Monastic and religious life