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Sto caricando le informazioni... Ho saltato il muro: ritorno nel mondo dopo ventotto anni di clausura (1948)di Monica Baldwin
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Like the title implies, Monica Baldwin spent twenty-eight years of her life in a Roman Catholic convent. She had thought she wanted to give her life to God until one day...she didn't. So after twenty-eight years, she left. Just like that. The first order of business "on the outside" was for Baldwin to find suitable clothes for the outside world. The second critical task was to secure suitable employment. The first was easier than the second considering England was in the midst of World War II. Baldwin struggled as a gardener, a matron at a camp for female munitions workers, a canteen cook, and a librarian. At heart she was always a writer. I Leap Over the Wall was meant to be a journalistic memoir, contrasting and comparing the structured life of being a nun to the haphazardness of the outside. Readers get a sense of how structured Baldwin's life had been on the inside: the day to day duties of a novice and even the caste-like division of the monastic houses. Despite this structure, something she thought she needed, Baldwin knew from the very beginning that entering the convent was a mistake. It took her twenty-eight years to seek rescript from the Vatican. ( ) 394. I Leap Over the Wall: Contrasts and Impressions After Twenty-Eight Years in a Convent, by Monica Baldwin (read 19 Nov 1951) I started this book in August, and after completing boot camp in the Navy finished it on 19 Nov 1951. It is a strange and most interesting book. I was most fascinated by the author's references to mystical writers and the means used by contemplatives to advance in holiness. I would like to read St John of the Cross, St. Teresa of Avila, etc. I wonder if I would get anything out of them. All in all this book is more likely to foster vocations than imperil them, I am sure. It is disconnected, discursive as such a book must be if it is to appeal to much of an audience. I would have preferred not such a 'written-down' account of her convent life. But of course again she had her potential readers to consider. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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At the age of twenty-one, Monica Baldwin, niece of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, entered one of the oldest and most strictly enclosed contemplative orders of the Roman Catholic Church. Twenty-eight years later, after a prolonged struggle with her vocation, she left the convent. But the world Monica had known in 1914 was very different to the world into which she emerged at the height of the Second World War. This is the account of one woman's two very different lives, with revealing descriptions of the world of a novice, the daily duties of a nun, and the spiritual aspects of convent life. Interwoven with these, as the author is confronted with fashions, politics and art totally unfamiliar to her, are the trials and tribulations of coping with a new and alien world. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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