Monastery Mornings
My Unusual Boyhood Among the Saints and Monks
A love letter to a community of Trappist monks who provided family when it was needed the most. 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, in the mountains of rural Latter-day Saint Utah. Struggling with his parents' recent divorce, Michael O'Brien discovered 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…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-64060-650-0
- EAN: 9781640606500
- Produktnummer: 37556454
- Verlag: Paraclete Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 192 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
Über den Autor
Michael Patrick O'Brien is a Catholic writer and lawyer living in Salt Lake City. He wrote for his college newspaper while earning a Government/Theology degree from the University of Notre Dame. He wrote movie reviews during law school at the University of Utah. Mike is a partner at the law firm of Jones Waldo Holbrook & McDonough. He advises business clients on employment issues and represents many news media outlets on various First Amendment and publication matters. He is married to Vicki, a preschool teacher, and they have three adult children. Learn more about him at theboymonk.com.
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