"“Time in solitude may at first”: Henri J. M. Nouwen, Making All Things New: An
Invitation to the Spiritual Life (New York: HarperSanFrancisco, 1981), pp. 72-73.
chapTer 7: conTeMplaTinG page 111 page 112 page 112-13 page 113 “Through
the grace of the Lord”: Gregory the Great, Homilies on Ezekiel, cited in Bernard
McGinn, The Growth of Mysticism: Gregory the Great Through the 12th Century (
New York: Crossroad, 1994), p. 42. “heaven ..."
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