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We're Just Novices

by Michael Pomedli
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9798385226061
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Resource Publications (CA)
  • Publisher Imprint: Resource Publications (CA)
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  • Pages: 150
  • Original Price: USD 20.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 214 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Monasticism, Mysticism, and Spirituality

Four individuals join a prairie religious community for a year in the mid-twentieth century. A hippie type delights in playful antics and earthy jokes; another, a musician, finds his joy in Gregorian chant; a farmer delights in nature; and a business executive looks forward to running the whole monastery. These men follow the Rule of St. Benedict, oriented to beginners: they rise early every morning to meditate, keep silence, and obey a superior. Written without self-pity and with a certain merriment, We're Just Novices traces their simple ideal--eat, sleep, and pray. But there are challenges: the rigor of learning to read Latin publicly, eye-rolling humor, and dealing with human desires. Personal life and private possessions become part of the communal. These monks have a moderate program so that they can grow and, mostly, stay balanced. They do not try to become heroes. Their spirituality is ordinary and even tedious; their prayer and work, not primarily that of individuals but that of a community. But in their togetherness there is some growth and depth, a holiness, the sanity of a well-tempered life.

Pomedli, Michael: - Michael Pomedli, born in Western Canada, holds degrees in classics, philosophy, and theology. Formerly a Benedictine community member and priest, he was editor of the Saskatchewan-Manitoba weekly, Prairie Messenger, high school teacher, and professor at the University of Saskatchewan and First Nation University of Canada. Delegate for a Paris Development and Peace mission to Vietnam, awarded a Rockefeller Fellowship, he has published books and articles on First Nations culture and on immigrant prairie life.

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