Reviews
The spiritual reflections inspired by a pilgrimage through French monasteries mingle with art, literature, architecture, scholarship, and music, gently leading me to look back on myself. Reading this book, I experienced a quiet peace, insight, and happiness embracing me. I highly recommend it!
Pilgrimage to French Monasteries... For the first time in a while, I found a truly captivating book—not one of those stifling books packed with text, but one with a sense of open space, yet also a depth that makes you look seriously back on your life without ever feeling lightweight. It is a visual pleasure to see the varied architectural styles in photographs... and the writing makes you imagine the spiritual current flowing through each space! Turning the pages while hearing beautiful
The writing is concise and easy to read, and the content is rich. I like that the book lets you reflect on life as well as history through the monasteries.
Yoo Jae-kyung: Pilgrimage to French monasteries
Pilgrimage to French Monasteries is an essay reflecting on a journey through French monasteries, where history, culture, and spirituality remain alive. The journey begins in Normandy in northwestern France, then crosses the southwest and Provence before reaching the southeast. The author candidly shares stories of the monasteries and monks they personally visited, saw, heard about, and experienced. The author writes that each day spent at a monastery and each encounter with a monk became a time of discovering themselves in God. Though they had stood silent for more than a thousand years, France's monasteries are still alive and dynamic; they brought the author face to face not with the Middle Ages but with their own present existence. We live in an age steeped in the belief that science can explain and solve everything, yet deep in our hearts there is always a longing for a world beyond this one. For those who carry that longing, this book invites them into monasteries that are solitary yet nourished by deep wells of spirituality. It may offer rest for the soul while bringing readers, as it did the author, face to face with the fundamental question, ‘Who am I?’
Korean title: 프랑스 수도원 순례
Korean author: 유재경
Korean publisher: 대한기독교서회
ISBN-13: 9788951121517
Reviews
The spiritual reflections inspired by a pilgrimage through French monasteries mingle with art, literature, architecture, scholarship, and music, gently leading me to look back on myself. Reading this book, I experienced a quiet peace, insight, and happiness embracing me. I highly recommend it!
Pilgrimage to French Monasteries... For the first time in a while, I found a truly captivating book—not one of those stifling books packed with text, but one with a sense of open space, yet also a depth that makes you look seriously back on your life without ever feeling lightweight. It is a visual pleasure to see the varied architectural styles in photographs... and the writing makes you imagine the spiritual current flowing through each space! Turning the pages while hearing beautiful
The writing is concise and easy to read, and the content is rich. I like that the book lets you reflect on life as well as history through the monasteries.
