No End to the Search: Experiencing Monastic Life

Name: No End to the Search: Experiencing Monastic Life
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ISBN: 9780879071509

By: Mark Plaiss

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A monastery is not just for monks. Laypeople enjoy visiting monasteries and learning from the women and men who live there. The silence of the monastery is a retreat from the clatter and bluster of city and suburb. In No End to the Search Mark Plaiss, married with a wife, children, and grandchildren, writes of his visits to various monasteries while striving to delve into the experience and meaning of monasticism.

What is behind that wall? What is the appeal of monastic life? To what degree can such a life be lived by persons who are married, and why would they wish to do so? This book explores the relationship between the vowed life of monks and the life of laypersons who are unable to live such vows but desire to share just a sliver of it.

Product Information

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Title: No End to the Search: Experiencing Monastic Life
By: Mark Plaiss
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 192
Vendor: Cistercian Publications Inc
Publication Date: 2017

Dimensions: 8.50 X 5.50 X 0.50 (inches)
Weight: 8 ounces
ISBN: 0879071508
ISBN-13: 9780879071509
Series: Monastic Wisdom
Stock No: WW071509

Author Bio

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Deacon Mark Plaiss teaches in the department of religious studies at Carmel Catholic High School, Mundelein, Illinois. Since 1997 he has been a monastic associate at New Melleray Abbey, near Dubuque, Iowa. He was ordained deacon in the Roman Catholic Church on June 7, 2003, at the Cathedral of the Holy Angels in the Diocese of Gary and is currently serving at St. Gilbert Church in Grayslake, Illinois. He tries to pass on the monastic wisdom he has absorbed over the years from New Melleray and other monasteries to his students and parishioners.