Bells of the Hours

Bells of the Hours speaks with authentic art out of a well-seasoned experience of the daily monastic life. It bears the authority of more than 50 years of practice, prayer, and reading from a disciplined and ascetic life in a Trappist monastery. Silence, listening, and reflection fill these words, which surprise and refresh the mind interested in ground-level views of a monastery and the distinctive round of work, song, and joy that takes place there.

Paul Quenon has been a monk at Gethsemani Abbey for 56 years. He is the author of the poetry collections Afternoons with Emily, The Art of Pausing, Carved in Stone, Laughter: My Purgatory, Monkswear, and Terrors of Paradise. He lives in New Haven, Kentucky.

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