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Cloister and Community: Life within a Carmelite Monastery
Cloister and Community Life within a Carmelite Monastery Author:Mary Jo Weaver This book is both a history of the Carmelite monastery of Indianapolis and an introduction to the Carmelites, a contemplative order of Roman Catholicism, founded in the 13th century and reborn as a reform movement for women religious by Teresa of Avila in the 16th century. Carmelite nuns live an ascetic, cloistered life, but the view that on... more »e must "leave the world" to find sacred space has evolved to embrace the notion that the world itself is sacred space.« less