Silence, Solitude, Simplicity: A Hermit's Love Affair with a Noisy, Crowded, and Complicated World SVS Press This series constitutes the first

This series constitutes the first appearance in English of a selection of the informal talks Abba Matta gave to his fellow monks and to visitors

he surveys the meaning of kenosis in scholarly literature

Mother Teresa has brought God to millions in places of darkness

centuries later

This book is a labor of love

Silence, Solitude, Simplicity: A Hermit's Love Affair with a Noisy, Crowded, and Complicated World SVS Press This series constitutes the first"Sugg. Donation" We all need God, Sister Jeremy says in her first sentence, and readers of all sorts will find here a warm and practical address to that need. The monastic way is not forsaking the world, but for the sake of the world, and Sister Jeremys Benedictine wisdom is fundamental human wisdom. Her book is the fruit of decades of practice, and the spiritual journey she recounts is nobodys but hers which makes it, paradoxically, something from