Monastery Mornings
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Monastery Mornings

My Unusual Boyhood Among the Saints and Monks

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Monastery Mornings

My Unusual Boyhood Among the Saints and Monks

About this book

A love letter to a community of Trappist monks who provided familyĀ when it was needed the most.Ā 
This warmhearted memoir describes how a small, insecure boy with a vibrant imagination found an unlikely family in the company of monks at Holy Trinity Abbey,Ā in the mountains of ruralĀ Latter-day Saint Utah. Struggling with his parents' recent divorce, Michael O'Brien discoveredĀ a community filled with warmth, humor, idiosyncrasies, and most of all, listening ears. Filled with anecdotes and delightful "behind the scenes" descriptions of his experiences living alongside the monks as they farmed, prayed, buried their dead, ate, and shared the joys of life, Monastery Mornings speaks to the value of spiritual fatherhood, the lasting impact of positive mentoring, and the stability that the spiritual life can offer to people of all ages and walks of life.Ā 
"Thanks to my mother, I first came to the abbey in 1972 at age eleven, uncertain of whether I had a father. More than ten years later, I left the monastery as a grown man with at least a dozen of them. My past, my present, and my future were shaped, forever and for the better, by my decade as a boy monk. I drove home as night fell."Ā 
" Monastery Mornings is a love letter to the monks of the abbey. The men who quietly went about the work and faith were role models, counselors, friends, and often refuges. They provided a family structure, stability, and the fatherly love O'Brien missed with his own father. And he tells a wonderful story of how that shaped his life." -- Glenn Young

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Information

Publisher
Paraclete Press
Year
2021
eBook ISBN
9781640606500
Edition
0
Subtopic
Christian Denominations

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Prologue: Two Hugs
  7. Chapter 1: Still Point
  8. Chapter 2: Good Turns
  9. Chapter 3: A Turn for the Worse
  10. Chapter 4: The First Huntsville Odyssey
  11. Chapter 5: Near to Heaven
  12. Chapter 6: First Friends
  13. Chapter 7: Brother Good Face
  14. Chapter 8: The Slowest Superhero
  15. Chapter 9: Chasing Cows
  16. Chapter 10: The Seasons of Abbey Life
  17. Chapter 11: Monastic Winter
  18. Chapter 12: Monks and Saints
  19. Chapter 13: Fellow Pilgrims Seeking Light
  20. Chapter 14: Discordant Notes in the Choir
  21. Chapter 15: The Unwanted Lineup
  22. Chapter 16: A Saint among the Saints
  23. Chapter 17: College and Vocation
  24. Chapter 18: A Boy Monkā€™s Vows
  25. Epilogue: Still Hearing the Bells
  26. Acknowledgments
  27. Notes
  28. About Paraclete Press