6/28/2023 0 Comments Consolations by Sally WolfeShe edits manuscripts, e-books, courseware and spent two years editing Narrative Magazine. Sally Wolfe is a marketing communications consultant for the holistic health community. Luminis Books, October 2014 Meet the Author She conforms outwardly as she rises in positions of authority and responsibility in the order, yet she continues to struggle to understand and resolve her relationship with Nathan – all the while carrying on a secret correspondence with him, until she is forced – in a final encounter and spiritual crisis – to dive deep into the still point of her soul and discover the truth. Under the guidance of the compassionate abbess, she tries to “reclaim her heart” and her lost fervor. When their forbiddenĪffair ends abruptly, Fiona, now Sister Bridget, suffers a split in her soul. Nathan Woods, a Jesuit and professor of theology who comes to give the annual retreat. What she finds there is not what she expects: Rev. Following in the footsteps of her inspiration, Thomas Merton, she abandons a promising academic career and enters Epiphany Monastery, ablaze with the certainty that a life dedicated to seeking God alone is the great adventure – and that it is meant for her. It is 1951 and young Fiona Ingram is full of the fervor of a new convert. A beautiful and haunting story of forbidden love, “Consolations” portrays a woman’s lifelong struggle to reconcile her all-too-human feelings with her quest for the highest spiritual life.
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