MORE THAN SENTINELS

by Naomi Burton ‧ RELEASE DATE: Oct. 2, 1964

I want to learn everything I can about loving God and telling him I love him,"" says Naomi Burton in her story of seeking and finding God. She chooses to tell of her life by alternating chapters of chronological autobiography with current journal entries. Born in England, the author grew up in an Anglican household, attended St. Marry's, enjoyed a young fling in Bloomsbury where she lived while working for a literary agent. When she came to America in 1939, she decided that new York suited here to a T and determine to live there. She continued her career (and married), which brought to her desk the early manuscripts of a fellow Englishman, Tom Merton. She became his agent, and his Seven Storey Mountain and joy in his life and Gethsemani, where she visited him, had their effect on her own spiritual life. She became a concert to Catholicism in 1955. Her reflections on her life as a Catholic touch upon such subjects as being a member of a parish, the power of the confessional, love of our Lady, and are touched off by such varied events as a boxing match, Easter, the death of Pope John. There is a practical air about the author's approach to being a ""working"" Catholic that may attract fellow communicants, but the emphasis is on the everyday and there is little intellectual stimulus here.

Pub Date: Oct. 2, 1964

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Doubleday

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Oct. 1, 1964

Categories: NONFICTION