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POEMS AND COUNSELS ON PRAYER AND CONTEMPLATION IBD

GRACEWING PUBLISHING
02 / 2020
9780852449431
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Among the earliest women to have their work in the English language printed, Dame Gertrude More was a Benedictine nun who spent her brief adult life in exile on the Continent. An important figure in the revitalization of English Benedictine life in the seventeenth century, she&mdash,along with her teacher Dom Augustine Baker and her community of nuns at Cambrai (now at Stanbrook Abbey)&mdash,provides a key link in the continuity of the medieval and modern western contemplative traditions of the English-speaking world. In the poems and counsels on prayer and contemplation found in this new edition of Dame Gertrude&rsquo,s shorter works, the reader will find subtle beauty, penetrating psychological and spiritual acuity, and a driving desire for divine union. Dame Gertrude&rsquo,s is a powerful and rare voice from the early modern cloister, speaking with wisdom of the contemplative life and the mysteries of the human soul.

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