She writes that the Benedictines refer to their daily office as “the sanctification of time.” The Cloister Walk is the fruit of that liturgical immersion-a “strange and beautiful book” written by a woman who I would come to know as equally strange and beautiful.
John’s Abbey about a ten minute hike up the hill to campus. While there, she immersed herself in the daily Liturgy of the Hours with the Benedictine monks at St.
John’s University in Collegeville, Minnesota. Kathleen’s experiences that frame The Cloister Walk occurred during two separate residencies at the Collegeville Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural Research on the campus of St. As I began to think about my second sabbatical, I knew that I wanted to go somewhere for at least part of the semester (that’s what normal academics on sabbatical do), but my career has been shaped to fit the campus where I have now taught for twenty-eight years.
During my first sabbatical, all the way back in 2002, I didn’t go anywhere instead, I holed up in my office and wrote the first draft of an academic book that was published two years later. It’s hard to believe, given the way that time flies, but fifteen years ago I was in exactly the same situation-a sabbatical semester (the second of my career) on the horizon. I’ve written about two of mine over the past couple of months–here’s another one.Ī year from now, I will be on sabbatical for the Fall 2023 semester (the fourth, and perhaps final, sabbatical of my career).
Not necessarily books that belong in the Great Books curriculum, but books that came just at the right time and spoke to them in a particular and memorable way. I asked my Facebook friends at the beginning of the summer to list three or four books that changed their lives.
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