![]() ![]() Other postulants and novices were not old enough to have them as embedded but for Philippa, in those first months at Brede, they were like hooks being torn out of her flesh. It was the little things that were Philippa’s danger things so little they made her ashamed…the habits of success were fast in Philippa indulgences that had become habits. ![]() ‘Thank God I shall never gave to give orders again…’ None of the things she had anticipated as being hard, were hard not the cold, nor the long hours of prayer. Phillipa’s initial struggles come from unexpected quarters: In this closed community she embarks on a new beginning, comes face to face with the pain of her past, and discovers that others, too, have their frailties and struggles, from the Abbess to the novices. Self-possessed, capable, used to giving orders and making decisions, she enters her new life as a postulant with women half her age and finds that it is not a place where she can hide and shut herself off. Philippa Talbot is a successful career woman who joins an order of contemplative Benedictine nuns at the age of forty-two. In This House of Brede is a quiet sort of book reflective and introspective but lively and interesting at the same time. ![]()
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