Veil and Cowl Writings From the World of

This thoughtful, inspiring, often humorous, and intensely spiritual collection brings together for the first time the most searching writings from the world of monks and nuns.

Introduction	p. 3
Preface	p. 7
Vocation
The Seven Storey Mountain	p. 13
Something Beautiful for God	p. 21
This Is My Beloved	p. 22
My First Seventy Years	p. 24
Beginnings
A Touch of Radiance	p. 29
Postulancy	p. 31
I Was a Monk	p. 33
The Courage to Choose	p. 36
Vowed
I Leap Over the Wall	p. 51
The Nun, the Superman, and the Infidel	p. 55
No Two Alike	p. 61
Taking the World in for Repairs	p. 64
Mother Jane Margaret, CSMV	p. 82
Retrospect
Stars in His Crown	p. 89
Naught for Your Comfort	p. 92
With Love and Laughter	p. 94
Jewel Within a Casket	p. 99
Sister Says	p. 103
Portraits
Convent Scenes	p. 109
Benedictine and Moor	p. 113
Mother Maribel of Wantage	p. 114
Migrations in Solitude	p. 123
Black Swans	p. 125
James Gould Cozzens: A Life Apart	p. 128
Hospital: A Meditation	p. 132
Changing Habits	p. 136
Cameos
Against All Reason	p. 147
Three Graces	p. 149
Nun	p. 152
Mother Catherine Thomas, Mary McCarran with Ruth Montgomery, Rumer Godden, Barbara and Grey Villet, Sister Maryanna, Mort Young, Robert Cecil Mortimer, Sister Louise Sharum, Joe Starkey, Alice Walker, Monica Furlong, Gisberto Martelli	p. 154
Fiction
The Celebrant	p. 161
Black Narcissus	p. 167
Black Robe	p. 177
Mariette in Ecstasy	p. 190
This House of Brede	p. 196
Little Moon of Alban	p. 199
The Nun's Story	p. 208
Short Stories
The Surgeon and the Nun	p. 219
Fight for Sister Joe	p. 234
Jubilee at Baysweek	p. 243
Index	p. 259
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