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This wheel of rocks : an unexpected spiritual journey / Sister Marya Grathwohl, OSF.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Riverhead Books, 2023Description: 291 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781594487309
  • 1594487308
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Contents:
Inklings -- Summons -- Catholic rain -- Chasing the horizon -- Arriving in Pryor, Apsa'alooke homeland : Bahpu-ah : shooting arrows at rock -- The classroom -- "The sweat at big days" -- Crow adoption -- Opening the sacred bundle -- Time for change -- Moccasins in Chicago -- The tie that binds : a ceremony in crow country and a lecture in Chicago -- What the crow elder knows : lodge grass -- A woman leads the way : Leadership Conference Regional Meeting, Donaldson, Indiana -- Anniversary Sun Dance -- Sister Claire Acts -- Reinventing myself -- A new, true name -- Grandma Nellie and birds -- First do no harm : Prayer Lodge, northern Cheyenne homelands -- The earth literacy professor's bow to the universe : Genesis Farm, New Jersey -- Michaela Farm and the Sisters of Saint Francis : a heart-haunting relationship -- Discovering Jesus as nature mystic : one litany and two parables -- This Universe Speaks as Beauty -- Speak a word of hope : cosmology course in jails -- Ancestors and destiny : reflections on deep time in the Bighorn Mountains.
Summary: "In this memoir, Sister Marya Grathwohl recounts her spiritual journey, how she-a Catholic nun from Ohio-came to be embraced by the Crow and Northern Cheyenne, and how their traditions prompted in her an expanding devotion to the land, its resources, and its connections to faith and God"-- Provided by publisher.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Growing up in the Midwest, Judy Grathwohl never felt she belonged. 'I belong out west,' she remembers telling her father. After joining the Sisters of St. Francis in the early 1960s and becoming Sister Marya, she came to realise that she craved a life beyond the traditional path of a Catholic nun.'Something other than dedicating my life to God was summoning me, some other life purpose,' she writes. It took several years and several detours, but when Sister Marya eventually was assigned by her order to the Northwest, she felt an immediate connection to the place and to its Native people, the Crow and Northern Cheyenne. Little by little, she was invited to become part of their communities, to share their customs and rituals, and eventually was adopted into one of their families. She came to understand that the blending of Catholic teachings and Native traditions helped build within her a deeper respect for the Earth -this wheel of rocks - that she could not have done on her own. In this intimate, revelatory memoir, Sister Marya recounts her own spiritual journey, her settling in Montana, and how she - a Catholic nun from Ohio - came to be embraced by the Crow and Northern Cheyenne, and how their traditions prompted in her an expanding devotion to the land, its resources, and its connections to faith and God. Honest and eye-opening, funny and heartfelt, This Wheel of Rocks shows how living a spiritual life committed to preserving nature and community can be both fulfilling and productive.

"In this memoir, Sister Marya Grathwohl recounts her spiritual journey, how she-a Catholic nun from Ohio-came to be embraced by the Crow and Northern Cheyenne, and how their traditions prompted in her an expanding devotion to the land, its resources, and its connections to faith and God"-- Provided by publisher.

Inklings -- Summons -- Catholic rain -- Chasing the horizon -- Arriving in Pryor, Apsa'alooke homeland : Bahpu-ah : shooting arrows at rock -- The classroom -- "The sweat at big days" -- Crow adoption -- Opening the sacred bundle -- Time for change -- Moccasins in Chicago -- The tie that binds : a ceremony in crow country and a lecture in Chicago -- What the crow elder knows : lodge grass -- A woman leads the way : Leadership Conference Regional Meeting, Donaldson, Indiana -- Anniversary Sun Dance -- Sister Claire Acts -- Reinventing myself -- A new, true name -- Grandma Nellie and birds -- First do no harm : Prayer Lodge, northern Cheyenne homelands -- The earth literacy professor's bow to the universe : Genesis Farm, New Jersey -- Michaela Farm and the Sisters of Saint Francis : a heart-haunting relationship -- Discovering Jesus as nature mystic : one litany and two parables -- This Universe Speaks as Beauty -- Speak a word of hope : cosmology course in jails -- Ancestors and destiny : reflections on deep time in the Bighorn Mountains.

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