{"product_id":"christ-andrew-joseph-grattan-9781502445650","title":"Christ: a depiction of the writer as an English Benedictine Novice","description":"Truthful and autobiographical, this short novelrecounts the vocational journey, which led meto become a postulant, and then, a novicemonk of the English Benedictine Congregation, at the Abbey of the Adonai, in rural WestBerkshire in England, when I was 26.Strongly influenced by the temperamentsdelineated in the companion poems 'L'Allegro'and 'Il Penseroso', by John Milton, I joined tobecome a scholar-monk, and sang GregorianChant in the monastic choir stalls, to rebuildin verbal prayer and liturgical worship, thethe logos destroyed by James Joyce in hishis novel 'Finnegans Wake'.Received into the monastic communityduring Eastertide of that year, this shortand highly accessible book, tells of the joyof learning Gregorian Chant, the offices andrhythms of monastic life, and the deeper calltoo, to the hidden contemplative life, lived inanother monastery on Thomas More's 'holy isle of Utopia' on the Isle of Wight.Evoking monastic history, from Pope Gregorythe Great, who sent mission monks fromRome to evangelize England in 575AD, to the Venerable Bede, this is the firstvolume of 'The Chrysolite Collection', a seriesof three books, designed to be read together, preparatory, to a new epic poem and literarygospel in seven books, 'The Christ Colloquy', a didactic summa, inspired by Dante's'The Divine Comedy'.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Andrew Joseph Grattan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1502445654\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781502445650\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Createspace Independent Publishing Platform\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/15\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.36lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.34d","brand":"Andrew Joseph Grattan","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49172224213247,"sku":"9781502445650","price":7.27,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/christ-andrew-joseph-grattan-9781502445650","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}