During his seven-month stay in a Trappist monastery, Henri Nouwen had a unique opportunity to explore crucial issues of the spiritual life and discover -a quiet stream underneath the fluctuating affirmations and rejections of my little world.- Nouwen participated fully in the daily life of the Abbey of the Genesee in upstate New York -- in work and in prayer.
From the early weeks in the abbey -- dominated by conflicting desires and concerns -- to the final days of Advent, when he finds a new.
During his seven-month stay in a Trappist monastery, Henri Nouwen had a unique opportunity to explore crucial issues of the spiritual life and discover -a quiet stream underneath the fluctuating affirmations and rejections of my little world.- Nouwen participated fully in the daily life of the Abbey of the Genesee in upstate New York -- in work and in prayer
