A review by heyjude1965
The Cloister Walk by Kathleen Norris

4.0

I thoroughly enjoyed this book of essays concerning the author's reflections on religious life, monastic life. She is a Protestant, married poet, but she's also a Benedictine oblate (an associate of the Benedictines, taking simple vows but living in the world - I'm sure I botched that definition), which I didn't even know you could be unless you were Catholic. Kathleen Norris has spent many months living, praying, working with the Benedictines and shared such wonderful insight on the cloistered life. This was my Lenten reading for 2020 and I had plenty of time because of the quarantine!