The Joy of God : Collected Writings

David, Mary/ Varden, Erik (FRW)

Bloomsbury Continuum（2019/07発売）

Bloomsbury Continuum（2019/07発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 208 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781472971326
• DDC分類 231.6

Full Description

A journey from where we are to achieving true happiness.

Sister Mary David Totah was a nun of the Benedictine contemplative community of St Cecilia's Abbey on the Isle of Wight. American by birth, she was educated at Loyola University, the University of Virginia and Christ Church, Oxford. After a distinguished teaching career, she entered religious life in 1985. For 22 years until her early death from cancer she guided the young nuns of her abbey with enthusiasm, wisdom and wit.

The spirituality to be found in the pages of this book demonstrates to the reader why her influence should have been so great and so deep. Her notes to the novices deal with issues of relevance to a world beyond the cloister: What is the meaning of suffering? How do we cope with living with people who annoy us? How do we relate to a God we cannot see? How do we make the big decisions of life?

Sister Mary David's teaching was both profound and intensely practical, suffused with faith in God's joy in our work, leisure, community and family life but above all in our view and understanding of ourselves. This book, with an introduction by Abbot Erik Varden OCSO (author of The Shattering of Loneliness) shows us how to realize the Joy that is God.

Contents

Foreword: Sister Mary David Totah - Father Erik Varden OCSO

PART ONE: CALLED TO JOY

PART TWO: JOURNEY TO JOY
Search
Decision
Growth
Freedom
Endurance
Mercy
Darkness
Light

PART THREE: SURRENDER TO JOY
Acceptance-with-Joy: Her Last Lesson
Interview Recorded a Few Weeks Before She Died

Acknowledgements