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Coldstream, Catherine.
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Coldstream, Catherine -- Spiritual life.
Ex-nuns -- England -- Biography.
Carmelite monasteries.
Contemplative orders -- Biography.
Monastic and religious life of women -- 21 century -- Biography.
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Coldstream, Catherine.
Coldstream, Catherine -- Spiritual life.
Ex-nuns -- England -- Biography.
Carmelite monasteries.
Contemplative orders -- Biography.
Monastic and religious life of women -- 21 century -- Biography.
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Cloistered : my years as a nun / Catherine Coldstream.
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Coldstream, Catherine.
St. Martin's Press, 2024.
Call #:
255.971092 C688c
Subjects
Coldstream, Catherine -- Spiritual life.
Ex-nuns -- England -- Biography.
Carmelite monasteries.
Contemplative orders -- Biography.
Monastic and religious life of women -- 21 century -- Biography.
ISBN:
9781250323514 (hc.)
Edition:
1st U.S. ed.
Description:
xxi, 327 p. ; 24 cm.
Summary:
"'Cloistered' takes the reader deep into the hidden world of a traditional Carmelite monastery in the 1990she story of an intense personal journey into and out of an enclosed life of poverty, chastity, and obedience. Finding an apparently perfect world at Akenside Priory, in Northumberland [England], Catherine trusts herself to a group of twenty silent women, believing she is trusting herself to God. As the beauty and mystery of an ancient way of life enfold her, she surrenders herself wholly to its power, quite unaware of the complexity and dangers that lie ahead. Cut off from the wider world for decades, the community has managed to evade accountability to any authority beyond itself. When Sister Catherine realises that a mesmerising cult of the personality, with the distortions it entails, has replaced the ancient ideal of religious obedience, she is faced with a dilemma. Will she submit to this, or will she be forced to speak out? An exploration of the limits of trust, Cloistered shows us how far youthful idealism can take us along the road of self-surrender, and of how much harm is done when institutional flaws go unacknowledged. Catherine's honest account of her time in the monastery - and her dramatic flight from it - is both a love song to a lost community and an exploration of what is most compelling, yet most potentially destructive when closed human groups become laws unto themselves."--From publisher.
Catherine Coldstream converted to Catholicism after her father's death and was a Carmelite nun for twelve years. Aged 39, she left for good, and has since studied at the Universities of Oxford, East Anglia, and London, and taught theology, philosophy and ethics in schools. She never stopped thinking about her life as a nun and has written on many aspects of contemplative spirituality and the arts. She is a viola player and choral singer and lives in Oxford.
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