In this meditative spiritual memoir, Judith Valente, celebrated PBS religion journalist and celebrated poet, invites readers along on her transformative pilgrimages to Mount St. Scholastica monastery in Atchison, Kansas. The Benedictine sisters who invited Valente presented her with a view of monastic life and wisdom that brought spiritual healing to her fast-paced life–and promises to do the same for her readers.
The first time Judith Valente arrived at Mount St. Scholastica monastery, she came prepared to teach a course on poetry and the soul. Instead, she found herself the student, taking lessons from the Benedictine sisters in the healing nature of silence, how to cultivate habits of mindful living, and the freeing reality that conversion is a lifelong process.
With the heart of a poet and the eye of a journalist, she tells how her many visits and interviews with the Benedictine sisters forced her to confront aspects of her own life that needed healing–a journey that will invite readers to healing of their own. A beautiful and heartfelt work that crosses The Cloister Walk with Tuesdays with Morrie, Atchison Blue will resonate with readers of Thomas Merton, Henri Nouwen, Mary Gordon, and Anne Lamott.
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- Sales Rank: #50813 in Books
- Published on: 2013-09-09
- Original language:
English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: .49″ h x
5.60″ w x
8.48″ l,
.53 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 224 pages
In this meditative spiritual memoir, Judith Valente, celebrated PBS religion journalist and celebrated poet, invites readers along on her transformative pilgrimages to Mount St. Scholastica monastery in Atchison, Kansas. The Benedictine sisters who invited Valente presented her with a view of monastic life and wisdom that brought spiritual healing to her fast-paced life–and promises to do the same for her readers.
The first time Judith Valente arrived at Mount St. Scholastica monastery, she came prepared to teach a course on poetry and the soul. Instead, she found herself the student, taking lessons from the Benedictine sisters in the healing nature of silence, how to cultivate habits of mindful living, and the freeing reality that conversion is a lifelong process.
With the heart of a poet and the eye of a journalist, she tells how her many visits and interviews with the Benedictine sisters forced her to confront aspects of her own life that needed healing–a journey that will invite readers to healing of their own. A beautiful and heartfelt work that crosses The Cloister Walk with Tuesdays with Morrie, Atchison Blue will resonate with readers of Thomas Merton, Henri Nouwen, Mary Gordon, and Anne Lamott.
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A Search for Calm Amidst Turmoil and Anxiety
By Robin M. Matell
“You don’t have to be Jewish to love Levy’s,” said the headline on a famous advertising poster of the 1960′s. It showed a Native American Indian biting into a Levy’s rye bread sandwich.I recalled that ad campaign and its memorable slogan while browsing “Atchinson Blue,” Judith Valente’s beautifully-written book about her quest for peace and calm within her already strong personal religious framework. She chose a Kansas monastery to help begin the journey.Why should I read this, I wondered? I’m not a religious person and know nothing about a group of Benedictine nuns living monastically on the Kansas plains.But that Native American’s contented smile on New York City’s subway posters was a reminder to always try something new. And it fed my hunger for new information.Valente writes from the heart, pulling back the curtain on a warm, loving soul. Benedictines believe that as a culture, Americans “suffer from leisure deficit disorder,” she explains. Instead, they “plea for balance.”She recalls a wise nun at the monastery urging her “to listen carefully, to love deeply, and to be willing to change as needed … a constant conversation with life.”She begins to understand the meaning of a more contemplative life, “speaking with greater attentiveness, exhibiting greater esteem for silence … (where) everything begins to connect.”"Atchison Blue” does not preach. It simply tells the story of one person’s very touching search for contentment in a world consumed by swirling turmoil and anxiety.” ###
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful.
Could not put this book down!
By Dena
This was an amazing experience! The honesty and tenderness of this book is so refreshing! It gives the reader a chance to experience the life of a monastic community in all its dailyness and the profound effect this ancient way of life has had on the author. I felt like a close trusted friend as she wrote about her yearning for “conversatio”, or conversion of life, and the changes that would require in her own attitudes toward her family and workplace. I felt like I was reading a very private, poetic journal and it was indeed a privilege.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful.
Highly recommended and well-written: a book you’ll love reading
By Sarah Reinhard
This book was a complete surprise to me. A whap-to-the-side-of-the-head walloping shocker. Why? I’m not completely sure, but the surprise was delightful and refreshing. It’s good writing, for one thing, and it’s also honest in a way that I appreciated. So much of Valente’s story and struggles resonated with me.It’s by award-winning PBS correspondent Judith Valente and is, at heart, a story well-told. It’s a story of struggle, of questioning, of seeking. It’s a tale of lost and found, with a Benedictine monastery at the center.I find myself with a growing curiosity of monasteries. I’m tempted to ask what you do in a monastery, but I suppose that’s like my family member asking what I do all day.I haven’t figured out how Valente spent so much time with the sisters at the Mount St. Scholastica monastery, but I’m glad she did, and I’m glad her journalistic training prepared her to capture it to share with me.This book spoke to my heart and applied to my experience. Valente faces a challenge, and the challenge is life. She carries a burden, and the burden is hurt. She seeks a solution, and the solution is Jesus.Atchison Blue is part memoir, part guidebook, part something I don’t know how to name. It explores difficult questions of faith and hard experiences of life. It’s raw and gritty and fun to read, somehow. There’s laughter, but there are tears, too.Highly recommended. It’s a book that I’ll reread and reference, because it’s full of gems.
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