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Publisher: Liturgical Press
ISBN: 9780879071608
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 15/09/2020
Width: 14 cm
Height: 21.6 cm

For at least eight centuries, the Norwegian island of Tautra in the Trondheim fjord has been known for its spiritual waves and special light. In the Middle Ages, Cistercian monks established the northernmost monastery of the Order, living God-centered lives and developing skills such as land use and animal husbandry until the Reformation. In 1999, Cistercian nuns reestablished Tautra Mariakloster, the monastery of Our Lady of the Safe Island. Visitors to the modern monastery, distinguished by its glass-roofed church, quickly sense the silence, peace, and light of the place. Four of the women who live at Tautra have contributed to this volume of monastic wisdom from the north. They write of their experiences as monastics living close to the land, sky, and water on this island, following the liturgical year of the monastery with its enduring rhythm while experiencing the changing seasons and landscape that help to shape their life of faith and light. Includes color photos.

Table of Contents
     Abbreviations   vii
     Preface by Dom Brendan Freeman  ix
     Light by Sr. Sheryl Frances Chen   xv
January
     The Gift of Beauty by Sr. Hanne-Maria Berentzen   1
February
     Daylight Returns by Sr. Anne Elizabeth Sweet   17
March
     The Color of Lightby Sr. Sheryl Frances Chen   35
April
     Passing Overby Sr. Anne Elizabeth Sweet   53
May
     Perfect Dayby Sr. Maria Rafael Bartlett   75 
June
     Vulnerable as a Rock by Sr. Sheryl Frances Chen   85
July
     Memories of Summer Silenceby Sr. Hanne-Maria Berentzen   101
August
     Berries and Martyrsby Sr. Hanne-Maria Berentzen   117
September
     Looking for the Next Crossby Sr. Sheryl Frances Chen   133
October
     Ordinary Joyby Sr. Maria Rafael Bartlett   151
November
     Lights in the Darknessby Sr. Anne Elizabeth Sweet   165
December
     “The light shines in the darkness . . .” by Sr. Maria Rafael Bartlett   185

The Cistercian Nuns of Tautra Mariakloster, Dom Brendan Freeman, OCSO

Abbot Brendan Freeman entered New Melleray Abbey in Peosta, Iowa, in 1958 at the age of twenty. He received a masters degree in liturgical studies from The Catholic University of America in 1973. Fr. Brendan was elected abbot of his community in 1984 and has served in that position ever since.

"This book is a valuable yearlong calendar of the life of the fourteen Cistercian nuns of the Mariakloster on Tautra Island in the Trondheim Fjord of Norway. Their extraordinary relationship to the natural world around them is compellingly described by four of them who are gifted writers and poets. Looking at nature broadly through the lens of their religious practice, they also examine their faith and commitment intimately through the lens of nature. The experiences of seasonal and temporal variations of darkness and light in the fjord are especially important to the deepening of their faith practice and their ever-growing connection to the spiritual world." Robert Benson, PhD, Professor Emeritus, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio

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