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No Moment Too Small: Rhythms of Silence, Prayer, and Holy Reading
Author(s): Norvene Vest (Author)
- Publisher: Cowley Publications
- Publication Date: 25 Jan. 1994
- Language: English
- Print length: 156 pages
- ISBN-10: 9781561010929
- ISBN-13: 9781561010929
Book Description
In her discussion of lectio-on-life, for example, Vest provides insight on the reading of our lives as the text in which we find God’s Word written in the ordinary events of daily life. Exercises for individuals or groups follow each chapter on silence, prayer, and holy reading. Excellent for Lenten study groups as well as ongoing prayer or Bible study groups.
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Review
No moment is too small to be aware of God’s Presence in our lives. Truly, this is a book to help us walk on the path of Jesus in our everyday life.
Norvene Vest perceptively and realistically adapts these key elements of Benedictine spirituality so that anyone anywhere can incorporate them fruitfully into his or her life.
Vest recognizes in the precepts of the Benedictine common life some significant common ground between monks and lay people. Far from suggesting that lay people can become monks, or otherwise enter into the fullness of monastic life, without taking religious vows, Vest stresses that, by following the Rule closely and faithfully, lay people can take on some essential monastic activities: silence, holy reading, prayer . . . Her ‘exercises’ in silence, holy reading and prayer are superb, reminding one that no moment is too small to devote to God.
