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- Every monastery exudes the scent of holiness, but women's monasteries have their own special flavor.
- Author(s): Constantina R Palmer
- 290 Pages
- Biography + Autobiography, General
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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 read as well.
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"In The Scent of Holiness, Constantina Palmer offers the reader a firsthand account of her contact with and immersion in the life of
Orthodox monasticism. . . . The major features of Orthodoxy are humility and love. In our troubled world, Constantina's writings
show us that these virtues and others still exist; the many monks and nuns who have dedicated their lives to prayer and ascetic
endeavor keep them alive."
-from the Foreword by Abbess Gabriella of Holy Dormition Monastery, Rives Junction, Michigan
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