Sacred Dwelling: A Spirituality of Family Life [Hardcover]

Wendy M. Wright (Author)

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Language Notes

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Latin --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 204 pages
• Publisher: Crossroad Pub Co (November 1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0824509722
• ISBN-13: 978-0824509729
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.6 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,630,501 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent spiritual book for families, December 5, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Sacred Dwelling (Paperback)

I read this book about four years ago and it has stayed with me ever since. I am now purchasing it because it is such an excellent book. I would highly recommend its deep spiritual message. Wendy Wright speaks right to your heart as a parent!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A good book on family spirituality, April 2, 2003

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MsJanetP (NM, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sacred Dwelling (Paperback)

A few sentences from the introduction describe the subject and emphasis of this book: "I fell in love with the great mystics and ascetics of our church.....I experienced the capacity of prayer and silence to reshape the human heart...". "But, I also learned that our tradition contains some assumptions about the mode of living required to cultivate an authentic spiritual life that excludes Christians living the ordinary life".
And, the author sets out to explain the ways that God can be experienced by those in family life, who can't go join a monastery. In each chapter she discusses a different way: birth, peacemaking, the practice of Charity, the meal-table as sacred, caring for the elderly family members, etc...
She gives the readers a spiritual perspectives on many things families commonly do, but see as drudgery. Usually it works, occasionally the language is too abstract and perhaps a stretch...

I do think I will remember this book too, and see many things I do in my family life differently. Good footnote references for further reading. Overall, a very worthwhile book, that could have great value for someone wondering 'how can I see in the chaos that is my home?'.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Understanding the Domestic Church, June 26, 2000

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Norma Prigge (Shohola, PA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sacred Dwelling (Paperback)

Like the other reviewer of this book, I found this book stayed with me. An example of one of the 'lessons' I learned was Wright's answer to the question, What can we learn from the Domestic Church? (That is, the part of the church that is oour family, at home..) Part of her anser was that 'it is about welcoming and letting go..'. She has tremendous insight on bringing church home- the living of it in families. I highly reccommend it.