Author
Verena Schiller
Book Format
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Publisher
Canterbury Press
Published
July 2010
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Today, as increasing numbers of people try to make sense of their lives in the face of unexpected or unlooked for change, this direct and compelling memoir by someone who has voluntarily embraced a life of radical simplicity and solitude is a real message for our times. What makes a young, Cambridge educated woman first join a religious order and then, if that were not demanding enough, seek a hermit vocation, literally on the edge of the world with only a simple hut as protection against Atlantic winds and storms? For more than forty years Sr Verena lived a solitary life at the tip of the Lleyn Peninsula, looking out across the sea to Bardsey, Wales' island of saints, and has only recently - with increasing age - moved nearer human habitation in the parish where R S Thomas was priest. For her, this narrow straitened place became a mirror of the whole of creation and the material poverty of her life became a means to 'having nothing yet possessing all things' in the words of St Paul.Over the decades, countless people have beaten a path to her door seeking spiritual counsel and direction for their own busy lives and her account speaks directly to those who may be facing an enforced simplicity leading them into something profoundly positive and life giving.
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Author
Verena Schiller
Book Format
Paperback
Publisher
Canterbury Press
Published
July 2010
Edition
1
Weight
259g
Page Count
218
Dimensions
14 x 21.6 x 1.2 cm
ISBN
9781848250253
ISBN-10
1848250258
Eden Code
3971787
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Author/Creator: Verena Schiller
ISBN: 9781848250253
Publisher: Canterbury Press
Release Date: July 2010
Weight: 259g
Dimensions: 14 x 21.6 x 1.2 cm
Eden Code: 3971787
13 years ago
A Simplified Life
If you have ever wondered about the life of a hermit – why on earth anyone would choose it and how it works out in practice – A Simplified Life provides an in-depth psychological and spiritual exploration of one nun’s experience, spanning a quarter of a century, living alone in a wooden hut on a remote peninsula in Wales. After twenty-four years in a religious community, Verena felt called by God to a life of solitude and prayer. She deals honestly with all the difficulties, dangers and potential pitfalls as well as the rewards, weighing all the arguments against such a life alongside the long tradition of hermits from the earliest days of Christianity.
The book encompasses poetry, history, and accounts of her rare pilgrimages to holy isles in Wales and Ireland, along with practical details of her day-to-day life and relations with the local community. After twenty-five years, advancing age brought that phase of her life to a natural end and she moved into a cottage in the village and found a new framework for prayer and contemplation. A deep and thoughtful book by a deep and thoughtful woman.
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