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...with a vague desire for "learning," sets off across the hills to see the world. On the way he meets an old man coming back, sick for home. The boy listens to the old man uneasily, but he goes on. A brother watches his sister being made into a nun, falls in love with the novice kneeling by her side. When he hears the priest take away their given names and christen them anew, it is as if the world ended...
Alien to most busy folk in the U. S. is the Buddhist hope to reach Nirvana by self-sacrifice, contemplation, suppression of passion. Nevertheless, now & then some inquisitive or discontented Westerner adopts Buddhism. Last year a Mrs. Margaret E. Ledson, 33, California divorcee, became the first U. S. Buddhist nun. F. M. Ormsby and L. A. Coburn of Boise, Idaho, became Buddhist monks, begged in the streets of Kyoto for seven months. Many a German and British Buddhist has gone to Ceylon to practice the faith, apparently more as a system of ethics than anything else. These scattered converts...
...Archbishop of Paris, and the Bishop of Bayeux, presided. Came also many a prelate returning from the Eucharistic Congress in Dublin. There were open air masses, processions, lectures on the holy life of the Little Flower. Not the least interested in the dedication were three Carmelites and one Visitation Nun. They were the surviving sisters of St. Thérèse of the Infant Jesus: Céline, 61; Léonie, 65; Marie, 78; Carmelites at Lisieux. Cloistered all, they did not attend the dedication, just as in 1925 they preferred not to accept the Pope...
Things are going badly for Linda's scolding mother at Shawn's farm. None of the children has done well at school or in marriage. Linda dreams of being a nun. But David comes home again with Rose and happier times follow. One midsummer evening in her 15th year Linda walks out in the apple-orchard, lies on the ground, feels a strange change in her mind, her blood. Shawn's farm is no longer the heart of her world. The orange moon, ris ing over the apple trees, is to set her life's tides from...
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