Bestseller For over fifteen hundred years St.
She was awarded the Templeton Prize for having started the Benedictine Experience weeks which are now widely held throughout America and England..
John\'s University for her contribution to Benedictine studies and for her ecumenical work. from Cambridge and was given an honorary doctorate from St.
She holds a Ph D.
Benedict including a life-Giving Way, published by The Liturgical Press, 1995.
She became interested in Benedictine monasticism as a result of living for ten years in Canterbury and has written several books on the Rule of St.
She lives on the Welsh Borders where she grew up and spends her time gardening, writing, traveling, and taking retreats.
Esther de Waal is an Anglican lay woman, married with four sons and a number of grandchildren.
She follows each chapter with a page or two of thoughts and prayers, contributing to its meditative quality.
Her ability to communicate clearly the principal values of the Rule when applied to lay people is the ultimate strength of this book.
Benedict.
Through this definitive classic Esther de Waal has become known as an authority for the lay person on the Rule of St.
Benedict can bring to individuals, to the Church, and to the world, now and in the years to come.
Esther de Waal\'s Seeking God serves as an introduction to this life-giving way and encourages people to discover for themselves the gift that St.
It has helped both those living under monastic vows and those living outside the cloister in all the mess and muddle of ordinary, busy lives in the world.
Benedict\'s Rule has been a source of guidance, support, inspiration, challenge, comfort and discomfort for men and women.
Bestseller For over fifteen hundred years St
