We have many defenses against hearing the Christmas readings and taking them to heart. It was a revelation that left her gasping for breath, and I believe she left the church that morning amazed, not a little discomfited, and above all grateful to have been granted a new sense of the Bible’s power. But as she listened in the abbey church, something caught her attention that she had never noticed before. She had made a pilgrimage to Corinth and knew Paul’s words in Greek, in German and in many English translations. This text had engaged her for more than ten years. Her doctoral thesis had been on a passage from the epistle, and she was in the process of turning it into a book.
I had told another resident of the Ecumenical Institute that the monks had begun 1 Corinthians, in case she wanted an opportunity to hear the letter read aloud. John’s Abbey in Minnesota, just after morning prayer. I learned something about what is possible at St. The Christmas story calls us to be willing, like Mary, to take the words in, to treasure and ponder them, because so much is possible when we do. Current articles and subscription information can be found at This material was prepared for Religion Online by Ted and Winnie Brock.
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Kathleen Norris’s books include The Quotidian Mysteries, The Virgin of Bennington and The Holy Twins.
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