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The Quotidian Mysteries: Laundry, Liturgy and "Woman's Work"

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From: Magistra
Date: 19980701
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Kathleen Norris, (New York: Paulist Press, 1998) 89 pp., $5.95, ISBN 0-8091-3801-8.

This short book is the latest of the annual publications of the Madeleva lectures. Each year Saint Mary's College in Notre Dame, Indiana, invites a woman speaker to reflect on some dimension of spirituality. In this one, a best-selling poet and essayist focuses on the spirituality of dailiness, of the connections between the household tasks one does over and over and the dailyness of prayer. Norris, as evidenced in her best-selling books of essays on the spiritual quest, has a unique girl for theologizing the ...

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