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[stlmom]

[quote name='Margaret Clare' post='1342276' date='Jul 27 2007, 03:36 PM']I know very little about Stanbrook Abbey, just that they have a great printing press, and many translations of different works have come out of there. I will have to learn more about them and their history. I'd like to see that movie at some point also, [i]In This House of Brede.[/i]


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Actually, the book is head and shoulders better than the movie. The movie plot was way too melodramatic and the characters had no depth at all compared to the book. If you can't get a copy of it, please PM me. I think I still have mine and would be more than happy to share it.

[jkaands]

[quote name='stlmom' post='1343474' date='Jul 29 2007, 11:23 AM']Actually, the book is head and shoulders better than the movie. The movie plot was way too melodramatic and the characters had no depth at all compared to the book. If you can't get a copy of it, please PM me. I think I still have mine and would be more than happy to share it.[/quote]


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In This House of Brede by Rumer Godden

lowest price: $5.00

[Sr Mary Catharine OP]

[quote name='stlmom' post='1343474' date='Jul 29 2007, 01:23 PM']Actually, the book is head and shoulders better than the movie. The movie plot was way too melodramatic and the characters had no depth at all compared to the book. If you can't get a copy of it, please PM me. I think I still have mine and would be more than happy to share it.[/quote]

Plus it's been reprinted by Loyola Press.
Standbrook did the singing and sewing of habits for the movie. It was filmed at a Franciscan convent in Ireland.
Yes, the book is better but for a movie the movie is very good and there is a lot more insight into the monastic life than people realize.

SMC

[jkaands]

[quote name='puellapaschalis' post='1342205' date='Jul 27 2007, 11:56 AM']In the English Benedictine Congregation the Abbots and Abbesses are not elected for life (as in some congregations). They are - I believe - elected for specified terms. Don't quote me on this, but I think it's eight years for an Abbot and twelve for an Abbess.

And....ditto what CA said about European and American Phatmassers. In fact, being an aspirant has taught me [i]a lot[/i] about religious life (though far from everything), and I'm just not inclined to take VS seriously anymore. The culture chasm is too great and it's not worth the effort of trying to bridge it with the Americans when hardly any of them seem to want to reciprocate.

This is my last weekend in the monastery. I had an interview with Mother Abbess this afternoon.

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Anyone heard from Puella!?

I, for one, am dying to hear!

Also...I am very interested in what she has to say about Benedictine charism in the UK.

[VeniteAdoremus]

Well, I picked her up from the airport, does that count?

She's looking great, she's happy, she did a great impression of Mother Abbess, she'll probably kill me when she reads this , and she has a lot of thinking to do.

So, I think she's just about the same as every aspirant coming home

Hm, this should probably be in her aspirancy thread, though...

I'll pinch her and see whether she wants to write something, but she's very busy planning the WOOT ALL NIGHT VIGIL WOOT WOOT

Edited August 3, 2007 by VeniteAdoremus