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C Sumaden e c ds aus 3 _ A book has been wandering around my house. I find it on _ dictines. I begin to understand why I find this book appealing, _ | * Navel Oranges « Page Oranges e 2 my bedside table, on the dining table, under the chesterfield, _ when I reâ€"visit passages like: Wl IDâ€"NIGHT SAL > beside the dog‘s dish. I have been reading The Cloister Walk, The Benedictines, more than any other people | know, insist \ ‘v'tfi"émig;*. 3 by Kathieen Norris, for about six months. that there is time in each day for prayer, for work, for study, Friday, December 6 â€" 7 pm â€" & g I decided it was time to write about this book before it dis and for play. Liturgical time is essentially poetic time, oriâ€" MW,\-’“ appears from the bookstoresâ€"as happens, all too soon. My ented toward process rather than productivity, willing to E bookmark is half way through, so I have no idea how it ends. | _ wait attentively in stiliness, rather than always pushing to o : m u/ want people to know about this book, but I do not wish to "get the job done." . C# im :. > 9 hurry it, so | am writing only about the first half. Sigh. The Chronice office expects these columns on timeâ€" % R i k _: § Why has it taken so long to read? more or less . . . Nevertheless, in the midst 6 UF + Partly, | think, because | like having it ofmybwylife,lliketfnideaofaplxg m Â¥ l O _ around as a companion. Partly, perhaps, m* where time moves more slowly, the notion €¢ 1 3 because I keep stopping to consider that timeâ€"andâ€"motion efficiency does not P P x what Norris has to say, and to stare out rule everyone‘s life. Ciias PÂ¥ P the window for a while. 1 was also caught by the suggestion that ie $ _ The Cloister Walk resists categories. it slow meditative readingâ€"of the scripâ€" is not a novelâ€"but it does have lively turesâ€"and of any other carefully prepared amampiny ye _ " characters. it is not exactly a journal, but textâ€"allows the power of words to resâ€" t does follow a chronology and it offers personal reflection. it _ onate into and through human experience. is not an academic text, but it does have interesting insights This book"makes a careful and honest attempt to record a 5 29y and observations based in history and literature. it is not a _ series of experiences, based in the liturgical year. It never preâ€" L P46 . "Â¥ guide to worship or meditation, but it seems to cause both to tends to be authoritative or to be trying to convert anyone to /' / ‘ /',. happen. interesting book. anything. it is one woman‘s account of time spent in quiet and ®~ *# ds A¢/ " L / in the book‘s "Preface," Norris herself records her surprise in careful reading. it is grounded in the practical. Norris‘s first uen 2 f about what she is doing: encounter with Benedict‘s "Rule" surprised her, because she Joun ernin Still, although | had little sense of where I‘d been, I knew had feared something "ethereal:" T onons esw E: that standing before the altar in a monastery chapel was a Benedict knows that practicalitiesâ€"the order and times for Munc ar remarkable place for me to be, and making an oblation was _ psaims to be read, care of tools, the amount and type of food rrow youmowa@ 6 f a remarkable, if not incomprehensible, thing for me to be and drink and clothingâ€"are also spiritual concerns . . ."No one doing. shall be excused from kitchen duty," Benedict says. Today that ‘ 2 | chuckle often, in response to her honesty and her selfâ€" means that the Benedictine scholar with the Ph.D. scrubs pots l assessment. A "thorough Protestant," with many doubts about _ and pans . . . the Christian religion, she has good reason to be astonished at 1 canâ€"very easilyâ€"relate to that. herself The quiet sanity of this book comforts and amuses me. | take 7 Norris goes on to explain that "oblate" is an ancient word, great pleasure in Norris‘s reflections on words and their histoâ€" ' based in the Latin for "offering." As it is now used, it means ries. This book is a rich storehouse of personal experience, whiih % offering oneself as a part of a Benedictine monastic commuâ€" research and scholarship, amusing anecdoteâ€"and it is good b ",, nity, "to follow the Rule of St. Benedict insofar as your situaâ€" company. Maybe six months from now | will write about the & tion in life will allow." second half of it. m oo Norris goes on to explain that "oblate" is an ancient word, based in the Latin for "offering." As it is now used, it means offering oneself as a part of a Benedictine monastic commuâ€" nity, "to follow the Rule of St. Benedict insofar as your situa tion in life will allow." The Cloister Wailk, Norris explains, is "a result of my immerâ€" sion into a liturgical world." She attempts to recreate for the reader the rhythm she found in observing the rule of the Beneâ€" Still, although | had little sense of where I‘d been, I knew that standing before the altar in a monastery chapel was a remarkable place for me to be, and making an oblation was a remarkable, if not incomprehensible, thing for me to be g N Judith Miller * 4ETITt Judith Miller is an associate professor of English at Renison College at University of Waterloo. 1f +N suscns ocms tnesvicimidiogtetaoens > oo ols uons oba s conaseariailemictinde S EL2 c Oe Fevibsiine l l on ootet iess ce onl m regrait i sulhon oomduten For more information or to e a visit, contact in eparromneneneae University of Waterico, Waterloo, Ontario N2L Phone (519) 884â€"4404, ext. 627 Fax (519) 884â€"5135 Watertoo degree and/or a Renison Caliege Social Work Certificate. _ . ie Application Deadline: December 1 Classes begin the week of January 6 m ue m un mm No sETE noon. oi and Travadiys introduction to Social Work (SOCWK 120R) m«“mm;:g td ts mhance on coninenay pracis 1030 T2 noon, Tossdiays and Thursdays These courses can be applied to a University of (SS 150R) _ t* 4 f Exmimfimdwwevems f during the lifespan. 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