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Virgin Time : In Search of the Contemplative Life
Virgin Time In Search of the Contemplative Life Author:Patricia Hampl "A religious cliff-hanger--intimate, compelling, hard to put down." — SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE — Eager to shake off the indelible brand of a Catholic upbringing, Patricia Hample seeks the "old world" of Catholicism. On her pilgrimage she meets others seekers--crotchety English agnostics, American Franciscan friars and nuns, and the seekers that fil... more »l every charter flight. Inevitably, too, she finds the "old world" right at home, in the very past she had tried to escape. But what she is looking for confronts her, finally, on a rereat at a monastery near the Lost Coast of northern California in the still, virgin moments of silent prayer....« less