Clique em uma foto para ir ao Google Livros
Carregando... The Ear of the Heart: An Actress' Journey from Hollywood to Holy Vows (original: 2013; edição: 2013)de Mother Dolores Hart
Informações da ObraThe Ear of the Heart: An Actress' Journey from Hollywood to Holy Vows de Dolores Hart (2013)
Nenhum(a) Carregando...
Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. I always find books about people who make great changes in their lives interesting. There maybe no bigger change then going from a up and coming young actress in Hollywood to being a contemplative Benedictine Nun in a monastery. This is a story of such a journey. How little events and conversations lead step by step down a certain unexpected road. I enjoyed this book and learning about how a fairly new monastery works and how it evolves and yet still remains grounded in its traditions. was interesting. I really wanted to give it 3 1/2 stars but couldn't figure out how. ( ) This was a most interesting book. I knew of Dolores Hart’s film career and that she had become a nun. I had no idea of the activities of cloistered nuns. I had thought they spent their days in prayer and mediation. These nuns are clearing land; felling trees, raising chickens, pigs, lambs, and cows; making cheese; running a blacksmith shop; and even making coffins. It was an eye opener for me. The story of Ms. Hart’s childhood and conversion to Catholicism and path to being a cloistered nun is most interesting. It was a difficult decision and made more difficult by the downright nastiness of the nuns when she first joined the order. Mother Hart had a temper and would write letters to the Mother Superior and many years later, those letters were read and the changes Hart suggested, such as to take and use the talents the sister had in the outside world be used on the inside, were taken. Certainly joining the order today would be more of a community experience with help from the sisters than in the past. The book was well written with numerous photographs (although I wish some had been larger in size). There are a couple of things I would have liked to have known – one are the sisters thoughts on the indiscretion of the Catholic Church with regards to the abuse that has gone on over the years by the priests. The other, that would have made the book a bit easier, is an appendix that would have listed all of the nun’s names and provide their background info. This was provided throughout the text but then later on when a nun was mentioned, you could not remember if this was the blacksmith or Gen. Patton’s granddaughter or one of the original nun’s from France, etc. This would have made reading the book a bit easier. I did enjoy the book and admire all these women for what they have accomplished and what they will continue to accomplish over the years. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
"Dolores Hart stunned Hollywood in 1963, when after ten highly successful feature films, she chose to enter a contemplative monastery. Now, fifty years later, Mother Dolores gives this fascinating account of her life, with co-author and life-long friend, Richard DeNeut. Dolores was a bright and beautiful college student when she made her film debut with Elvis Presley in Paramount's 1957 Loving You. She acted in nine more movies with other big stars such as Montgomery Clift, Anthony Quinn and Myrna Loy. She also gave a Tony-nominated performance in the Broadway play The Pleasure of His Company and appeared in television shows, including The Virginian and Playhouse 90. An important chapter in her life occurred while playing Saint Clare in the movie Francis of Assisi, which was filmed on location in Italy. Born Dolores Hicks to a complicated and colorful Chicago family, Mother Dolores has travelled a charmed yet challenging road in her journey toward God, serenity and, yes, love. She entered the Abbey of Regina Laudis in Bethlehem, Connecticut, at the peak of her career, not in order to leave the glamorous world of acting she had dreamed of since childhood, but in order to answer a mysterious call she heard with the "ear of the heart". While contracted for another film and engaged to be married, she abandoned everything to become a bride of Christ"--Dust jacket. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
Current DiscussionsNenhum(a)Capas populares
Google Books — Carregando... GênerosClassificação decimal de Dewey (CDD)271.97Religions History, geographic treatment, biography of Christianity Religious Congregations and Orders in Church history Orders of Women Other Roman sisterhoodsClassificação da Biblioteca do Congresso dos E.U.A. (LCC)AvaliaçãoMédia:
É você?Torne-se um autor do LibraryThing. |