And then there were nuns
Subtitle: adventures in a cloistered life
By: Jane Christmas
Publisher: Greystone Books
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9781553657996
Subjects: Order of the Holy Paraclete; Vocation (in religious orders, congregations, etc.); Church of England; Nuns
Description: Just as Jane Christmas decides to enter a convent in mid-life to find out whether she is "nun material", her long-term partner Colin springs a marriage proposal on her. Determined not to let her monastic dreams be sidelined, Christmas embarks on a year long adventure to four convents-- one in Canada and three in the UK. In these communities of cloistered nuns and monks, she revels in--and at times chafes against-- the silent, simple existence she has sought off of her life.
Table of contents: title: In the beginning, there was a proposal; title: At a crossroads: the Sisterhood of St. John the Divine; title: Battling demons: Quarr Abbey; title: An invalid religion: St. Cecilia's Abbey; title: The cloistered castle: Order of the Holy Paraclete; title: The winter desert: Order of the Holy Paraclete; title: When silence knocks: Order of the Holy Paraclete.