One Nun Odyssey A Memoir edition by Marion Kenneally Religion Spirituality eBooks
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This story chronicles the journey of an 18 year-old young woman who entered an Order of teaching nuns in 1952, believing herself to have a religious vocation. After three years of novitiate training she pronounced vows and was assigned to teach in the elementary grades of parochial schools in New Jersey, Baltimore, Fall River and New York. During the last two years of her life as a nun, she matriculated in a program of religious studies at Fordham University. There she enjoyed exposure to many European theologians who proffered enlightened views on religion, and, she ultimately called into question, some of the tenets of the Catholic Church. Ultimately she rejected her faith and sought dispensation from her vows.
One Nun Odyssey A Memoir edition by Marion Kenneally Religion Spirituality eBooks
Rather good as far as this narrow genre of "nuns who leapt over the wall" goes. Overall in brief: A nun who actually sticks things out for a decent time, discerns her best course for life after trying circumstances, and then makes a decision to pursue another vocation.It reflects relatively little of the bitterness or anti-Church diatribes that frequently accompany the various "nuns' stories" that have flooded the market over the years.
This woman's story points clearly to the unfortunate situations created by very specific nuns/superiors whose personal histories, quirks, neuroses (or psychoses!) made life unbearable for the idealistic or fragile younger nuns under their care. In some ways it makes "the system" less at fault than the women themselves.
Sad. Because many of those impressionable younger nuns - if given half a chance to bloom and grow - would have been great boons to a church that was already foundering in the 1970''s and 80's!
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One Nun Odyssey A Memoir edition by Marion Kenneally Religion Spirituality eBooks Reviews
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From girlhood to early womanhood One Nun's Odyssey is a memorable tale of life in a nunnery, a cloistered life. I wish we had learned more about Marion's childhood and how she later adjusted to the culture shock of the 1960's onward. The details of her life lived in a closed environment, devoting her life to God is a remarkable story.
I enjoyed her memoirs very much, I wish she went into more detail as to why the “religious” practice certain “rules of order?” what is their end?what are they suppose to gain out of these “religious/occult” practices? why? I wish there were more on this, but am very Happy for Marion that she escaped this dreadful occult.
I found Marion's story very moving, fast paced,informative and a page turner!
Excellent recall of a difficult period of her life.
Marion Kenneally's journey from her 16-year-old self, enchanted with the beauty and mystery of the Catholic church as experienced by the "brides of Christ," to her more mature self in her early 30s is fascinating. The clear and detailed telling of the story, in all its ritual and evocative detail, makes it possible for us all to empathize with this not uncommon but actually rather extraordinary quest. Kenneally's story is set in an earlier time, starting in the mid-1950s, but the romantic notion of escaping into a better world, a world with precise rules and goals, is still a contemporary theme, and deserves exploration. My only complaint about this book is that it ended too soon! I wanted to know more about Marion's adventures, once she came to a decision about her religious calling. Such a thoughtful and perceptive observer; what happened next?
Rather good as far as this narrow genre of "nuns who leapt over the wall" goes. Overall in brief A nun who actually sticks things out for a decent time, discerns her best course for life after trying circumstances, and then makes a decision to pursue another vocation.
It reflects relatively little of the bitterness or anti-Church diatribes that frequently accompany the various "nuns' stories" that have flooded the market over the years.
This woman's story points clearly to the unfortunate situations created by very specific nuns/superiors whose personal histories, quirks, neuroses (or psychoses!) made life unbearable for the idealistic or fragile younger nuns under their care. In some ways it makes "the system" less at fault than the women themselves.
Sad. Because many of those impressionable younger nuns - if given half a chance to bloom and grow - would have been great boons to a church that was already foundering in the 1970''s and 80's!
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