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Return from Exile


Return from Exile

Revelations from an Anchoress in St. Augustine

von: Marie Laure

20,99 €

Verlag: Wipf And Stock Publishers
Format: EPUB
Veröffentl.: 03.09.2021
ISBN/EAN: 9781666707656
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 152

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A true story of two women speaking from self-imposed exile. Separated by seven centuries and an ocean, their stories intersect when Marie Laure makes a solo pilgrimage. She wants to understand why Julian of Norwich lived from age fifty in a cell, an anchorage, attached to a church during the Black Death plague. Her own so-called anchorage is a river porch attached to a Florida townhouse. How had she ended up in quasi-exile? Trying to make sense of it, she writes, just as Julian wrote to understand what had happened in a near-death experience. Alone in Julian's anchorage, Marie confronts words etched in stone: "Thou art enough for me." The words nag at her. Truth is, she could not say those words. Why had she come? Her handwritten words, "For my heart to heal," speak across time when read aloud in the anchorage by a priest. Upon returning home, a global pandemic shutters the world, throwing everyone into exile, creating distance and longing for reunion. This second book in Marie Laure's Serendipity Series continues to follow explorers of serendipitous moments on the continuum of shared spiritual stories.
Marie Laure leads spiritual autobiography seminars and retreats. She is the author of
<i>Chances Are .&#xa0;.&#xa0;. </i>(2016),
<i> </i>the first book in her Serendipity Series. She coauthored
<i>Tuscan Retreat </i>(2013), with Lance Carden. She holds master’s degrees in theology from Episcopal Divinity School and Boston University School of Theology.
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“This is a beautiful book that traces a woman’s journey to ‘heal her heart.’ In connecting with her own story—including deep loss, pilgrimage, exile, and return—the author also delves into the life of the female mystic Julian of Norwich. She seeks self-discovery and renewal and offers in turn inspiration to the reader.”
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<br> —Claire Wolfteich, PhD, Boston University School of Theology
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<i>Return from Exile </i>tells the story of two women several centuries apart whose journeys are remarkably similar. .&#xa0;.&#xa0;. This story is one worth savoring, not only for its beautiful language, but for the significance of finding healing in a journey begun not in search of healing but driven by the call to search. Exile yourself for a bit and walk with Marie Laure and Julian on the road to healing.”
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<br> —Owene W. Courtney, Director of Formation and Spirituality, St. John’s Cathedral, Jacksonville, Florida
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<br> “Readers and seekers who have recently lived through an externally demanded isolation will find a deeper and more soul-satisfying pause in Laure’s story of self-imposed exile. .&#xa0;.&#xa0;. Readers will find in
<i>Return from Exile</i> an expansion of understanding of Julian’s ‘showings’ and an inspiring story of one woman’s interior exile during a life’s pilgrimage. Both will resonate with all who welcome an awareness of living in Spirit.”
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<br> —Ann Browning Masters, PhD, author of
<i>Floridanos, Menorcans, Cattle-Whip Crackers: Poetry of St. Augustine</i>
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