The Scent of Holiness: Lessons from a Women's Monastery
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The Scent of Holiness: Lessons from a Women's Monastery
Narrated by:
Constantina R. Palmer
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Narrated by:
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Constantina R. Palmer
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Every monastery exudes the scent of holiness, but women's monasteries have their own special flavor. Join Constantina Palmer as she makes frequent pilgrimages to a women's monastery in Greece and absorbs the nuns' particular approach to their spiritual life. If you're a woman who's read of Mount Athos and longed to partake of its grace-filled atmosphere, this book is for you. Men who wish to understand how women's spirituality differs from their own will find it a fascinating listen as well.
©2012 Constantina R. Palmer (P)2018 Constantina R. PalmerListeners also enjoyed...
The Eastern Church to a Western mind can seem at times mysterious with prayers to saints and the use of icons. For me one of the attractions is that it is rooted in history and doesn't waver and just follow the latest cultural ideas. It has the intellectual rigour of the best of Western Christianity but without the dryness. It also has the focus on the miraculous but without the money hungry prosperity preachers. Quite the opposite as Eastern Orthodox elders, monks and nuns shun wealth and seek humility.
There are numerous miraculous accounts in this book related to saintly, ascetic believers which are really inspiring. Constantina is not a nun but spent a lot of time with them. Just as Constantina became part of monastery life without actually becoming a nun, you as the listener also feel part of it...perhaps that is a result of prayers for the book...I don't know.
I wouldn't necessarily want to be a monk, it's for the few but there are so many lessons to learn from nuns and monks and this beautiful book allows you to experience a bit of their world, which is actually very out of this world!
A window into a beautiful, miraculous world.
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