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Hartford Courant -- December 14, 2003 -- Bill
Williams, staff writer -- Kristin Ohlson is a Cleveland free-lance
writer who encounters the cloistered order of nuns known as the Poor
Clares when she saw a newspaper ad for Christmas Mass in 1998. She
was raised Catholic, but had long since fallen away from her faith.
At Mass, she became intrigued when she heard the nuns singing from
behind an enclosure near the alter...
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Catholic News Service -- November 25, 2003 -- Book
on Poor Clares is a spiritual classic STALKING THE DIVINE:
Contemplating Faith With The Poor Clares, by Kristin Ohlson.
Hyperion Press (New York, 2003). 256 pp., $23.95 -- Reviewed by
Michael Dubruiel -- "Stalking the Divine: Contemplating
Faith With the Poor Clares" is a modern-day "Seven Storey
Mountain." My job requires me to read a lot of books, and this
is simply the best one that I have read in the past 20 years...
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Our Sunday Visitor Magazine -- October 2003 -- God
in the Cloister by Amy Welborn -- One of the most mysterious
religious vocations to the modern observer is that of cloistered
nuns. What do they do? Who would embrace such a life? What's the
point? There have been a few books released on the subject over the
past few years, but one of the finest is "Stalking the Divine:
Contemplating Faith with the Poor Clares" (Hyperion, $24) by
Cleveland freelance journalist Kristin Ohlson...
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Library Journal - October 1, 2003 -- Ohlson,
Kristin - STALKING THE DIVINE: Contemplating Faith With The Poor
Clares -- There is no end to personal memoirs about the experience
of faith or the recovery of faith in modern life. Ohlson’s books
is notable in this crowd for its very spikiness, its refusal to rush
to sentimental conclusions...
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Washington Post -- Sunday, August 17, 2003 -- Reviewed
by Colman McCarthy -- The Power of Prayer -- Faith and
conviction are the marks of the Catholic women whose stories are
ably told by Kristin Ohlson in STALKING THE DIVINE: Contemplating
Faith With the Poor Clares (Hyperion, $23.95). The nuns'
cloistered convent is in downtown Cleveland, with 15 elderly sisters
committed to perpetual adoration of their God...
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Rocky Mountain News - August 15, 2003 -- Wit,
candor hightlight tale of nuns -- By L.E. Rich, Special to the
News -- When she was alive, my 98-year-old Jewish grandmother used
to say she never doubted the existence of God; she was sure he’s
senile. Which could explain why the sect of Poor Clare nuns in Ohio
prays in perpetual adoration...
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Booklist, August 2003 - Ohlson, Kristin - Stalking
The Divine: Contemplating Faith With The Poor Clares
Aug. 2003, 272 p. Hyperion/Theia. $23.95 -- Journalist Ohlson
knew nothing about the Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration; the name
sounded, she thought, like something from Saturday Night Live.
The self-proclaimed errant Catholic decided to attend Christmas mass
in downtown Cleveland, however, and there she encounter the
anachronistic, enigmatic Poor Clares...
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Publishers Weekly June 30, 2003 - Starred Review
-- STALKING THE DIVINE: Contemplating Faith with the Poor Clares -- Kristin
Ohlson. Theia/Hyperion, $23.95, (272p) ISBN 1-4013-0025-1-- A
longing for belief at midlife has provided endless book material for
authors, but Ohlson’s beautiful writing, gritty honesty and
parallel story of the Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration set this
one apart...
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Chicago Tribune - June 1, 2003 -- Stalking The
Divine: Contemplating Faith With The Poor Clares by Kristin Ohlson -
Hyperion, 23.95 (August) -- One Christmas morning Kristin Ohlson,
a journalist and lapsed Christian, happened upon a newspaper ad that
mentioned that The Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration would be
singing at a downtown Cleveland church. Bored, without her children
(who were visiting their divorced father) and intrigued by this
order, which sounded like it was part of a “Saturday Night Live”
Kristin Ohlson drove off to mass..
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