Cloister and Community: Life within a Carmelite Monastery

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“For centuries the Spanish mystic Teresa of Avila has fascinated any person interested in a life lived out of the depths of the human spirit. With warm and vigorous prose, Mary Jo Weaver tells not only Teresa’s story but also how Teresa’s ideals are lived by latest Carmelite nuns in Indianapolis. You’ll not need to set down this beautifully crafted tapestry of a saint and her up to date daughters until you have turned its final page.”
—Keith J. Egan

Cloister and Community 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 rededicated as a reform movement for religious women in the 16th century by Teresa of Avila. A key element of the order is that its nuns live an ascetic, cloistered life, but as Mary Jo Weaver demonstrates, the view that one will have to “leave the world” to find sacred space aside from it has evolved to embrace the notion that the world itself is sacred space.

Weaver makes a speciality of a up to date Indianapolis community and describes how the sisters incorporate Carmelite belief and practice into their day by day lives. Cloister and Community is a beautifully written and handsomely produced book that offers readers a privileged view of the world of present-day contemplative spirituality.


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