New book finds cloistered nuns, young and old filled with joy and love
THE NEW YORK TIMES
By David Gonzalez
NEW JERSEY---The idea of a cloistered life strikes some as one of severity and silence, of running away from a broken heart or a broken life. But as Toni Greaves discovered when she visited a community of cloistered nuns in New Jersey, it was a joyful embrace of a life that is in many ways countercultural given the me-first society that lurks beyond the convent’s walls. At the Dominican Monastery of Our Lady of the Rosary, the subject of her book “Radical Love,” she found women who despite having other chances for work, love and life in the secular world had embraced a simpler existence of prayer, study and meditation. [link]
By David Gonzalez
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| Sister Lauren praying (March 4, 2008) |
