Cecilia: Bride of Christ & Beyond
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| Rating | : | 4.54 (798 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0143001299 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 360 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-01-30 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Tired & disillusioned at 47, Cecilia chose to renounce her vows.. This is a highly original & absorbing story of one woman's courageous quest to find happiness & fulfilment after thirty years as a Catholic nun. Cecilia is the inspiring life story of a woman from an Irish Catholic background who decided to become a nun at the age of seventeen & joined the Sisters Of Mercy in NSW during the early 1950s
A VOLUME OF FORGOTTEN LORE Thomas Patrick Hull I found CECILIA: AN EX-NUN'S EXTRAORDINARY JOURNEY in a Chicago used-bookstore. Cecilia Inglis of Australia shares a remembrance of her life within the ever-expanding genre of nun stories. On seeing the title and the cover I was reminded of a very popular autobiography, a best-seller in the fifties, THE DELIVERANCE OF SISTER CECILIA. "Enjoyable" is one way to describe this more recent story, though it was published a decade ago.The point of view in the telling is mostly first person singular and first person plural. "I thought this" and "We wandered there" are the kind of sentences one finds in attempting to