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Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
A longing for belief at midlife has provided endless book material for authors, but Ohlson's beautiful writing, gritty honesty and parallel story of the Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration set this one apart. At age six, Ohlson wanted to be a nun, but later wandered from her childhood Catholicism. One lonely Christmas morning she stumbled across an advertisement for mass at Cleveland's St. Paul Shrine and decided to go. Attendance, she found, had dwindled, and only 16 cloistered nuns remained in the monastery, but she discovered that "somehow, the act of going had created the desire to go." Hoping that writing a book about the Poor Clares and the St. Paul Shrine might "help me construct a framework for trying to make sense of their faith, and, perhaps, learn to build some kind of faith of my own," she explores the history of both as her own faith journey unfolds. Ohlson remains insecure about her beliefs, but she finds that the patterns of faith and retreat keep the sparks of her growing faith kindled, and she takes heart in the "tiniest of convictions that God is like a fire burning in the darkness." Although she confesses she's not quite there yet ("I'll hear the words at mass-the words that I'm saying along with everyone else-and I'll think, `Are you nuts?'"), Ohlson's vulnerability about her doubts in the midst of her new commitment will appeal to anyone who has ever yearned to believe.
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From Booklist
Journalist Ohlson knew nothing about the Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration; the name sounded, she thought, like something from Saturday Night Live. The self-proclaimed errant Catholic decided to attend Christmas mass in downtown Cleveland, however, and there she encountered the anachronistic, enigmatic Poor Clares: 16 cloistered nuns who maintain a rigorous, round-the-clock schedule of prayer. Ohlson was fascinated by the qualities that set them apart from the outside world, awed by their seemingly selfless commitment to a higher power. By telling their story, she hoped to make sense of her own mixed-up spiritual life. Above all, she yearned to have a faith she could believe in again. Yet she remained less a true believer than a spiritual observer. Still, to follow Ohlson as she is allowed into the nuns' inner sanctum, as they reluctantly reveal more of themselves and the order, as she discovers the meaning of the Poor Clares' history, as she clarifies her own belief status, is to absorb a quietly moving, surprisingly humorous testament of faith. June Sawyers
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
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A longing for belief at midlife has provided endless book material for authors, but Ohlson's beautiful writing, gritty honesty and parallel story of the Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration set this one apart. At age six, Ohlson wanted to be a nun, but later wandered from her childhood Catholicism. One lonely Christmas morning she stumbled across an advertisement for mass at Cleveland's St. Paul Shrine and decided to go. Attendance, she found, had dwindled, and only 16 cloistered nuns remained in the monastery, but she discovered that "somehow, the act of going had created the desire to go." Hoping that writing a book about the Poor Clares and the St. Paul Shrine might "help me construct a framework for trying to make sense of their faith, and, perhaps, learn to build some kind of faith of my own," she explores the history of both as her own faith journey unfolds. Ohlson remains insecure about her beliefs, but she finds that the patterns of faith and retreat keep the sparks of her growing faith kindled, and she takes heart in the "tiniest of convictions that God is like a fire burning in the darkness." Although she confesses she's not quite there yet ("I'll hear the words at mass-the words that I'm saying along with everyone else-and I'll think, `Are you nuts?'"), Ohlson's vulnerability about her doubts in the midst of her new commitment will appeal to anyone who has ever yearned to believe.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist
Journalist Ohlson knew nothing about the Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration; the name sounded, she thought, like something from Saturday Night Live. The self-proclaimed errant Catholic decided to attend Christmas mass in downtown Cleveland, however, and there she encountered the anachronistic, enigmatic Poor Clares: 16 cloistered nuns who maintain a rigorous, round-the-clock schedule of prayer. Ohlson was fascinated by the qualities that set them apart from the outside world, awed by their seemingly selfless commitment to a higher power. By telling their story, she hoped to make sense of her own mixed-up spiritual life. Above all, she yearned to have a faith she could believe in again. Yet she remained less a true believer than a spiritual observer. Still, to follow Ohlson as she is allowed into the nuns' inner sanctum, as they reluctantly reveal more of themselves and the order, as she discovers the meaning of the Poor Clares' history, as she clarifies her own belief status, is to absorb a quietly moving, surprisingly humorous testament of faith. June Sawyers
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
See all Editorial Reviews
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