From the Book - First Riverhead trade paperback edition.
September 3: Gregory the Great --
St. John's abbey liturgy schedule --
September 17: Hildegard of Bingen --
September 29: Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, Archangels --
October 1: Thérèse of the Child Jesus --
October 2: Guardian angels --
Jeremiah as writer: the necessary other --
November 1 and 2: All Saints, All Souls --
November 16: Gertrude the Great --
Exile, homeland, and negative capability --
New York City: the trappist connection --
Los Angeles: the O antiphons --
January 2: Basil the Great and Gregory of Nazianzus --
The paradox of the psalms --
Baptism of the Lord: a tale of intimacy --
January 10: Gregory of Nyssa --
February 2: Candlemas/presentation of the Lord --
February 10: Scholastica --
New melleray abbey liturgy schedule --
Chicago: religion in America --
March 18: Mechtild of Magdeburg --
April 2: Mary of Egypt --
Saved by a rockette: Easters I have known --
Triduum: the three days --
Cinderella in Kalamazoo --
The Virgin Martyrs: between "point vierge" and the "usual spring" --
Minneapolis: cocktails with Simon Tugwell --
A story with dragons: the Book of Revelation -- May 15: Emily Dickinson -- Maria Goretti: cipher or saint? -- Evening -- Genesis -- Road trip -- Places and displacement: rattlesnakes in cyberspace -- Learning to love: Benedictine women on celibacy and relationship --
The church and the sermon --
June 9: Ephrem the Syrian --
Small town Sunday morning --
At last, her laundry's done --
July 11: Benedict's cave --
Women and the habit: a not-so-glorious dilemma --
The lands of sunrise and sunset --
The nursing home on Sunday afternoon --
Coming and going: monastic rituals --
"The rest of the community" --
"The only city in America" --
September 3 : Gregory the Great
St. John's Abbey liturgy schedule
September 17 : Hildegard of Bingen
September 29 : Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, archangels