| Edition |
First Free Press hardcover edition. |
| Description |
xiv, 253 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (page 251). |
| Contents |
Path to Mother Teresa -- The novitiate -- Becoming a Missionary of Charity -- The professed life : still in Australia -- Bilums and betel nuts -- The garbage mountain -- Rickshaws and reality -- Return to Manila : novice mistress -- Banished -- The back of beyond -- Transitions : emerging from Mother Teresa's shadow -- Air medical -- East Timor : a land laid waste -- "I will give saints to mother church". |
| Summary |
The searing memoir of an extraordinary woman who served as a nun for eleven years in Mother Teresa's order, Hope Endures is a compelling chronicle of idealistic determination, rigid discipline, and shattering disillusionment. In her life's journey from certainty to doubt, Colette Livermore enters the Missionaries of Charity order in 1973 with unwavering faith and total surrender of her will and intellect after seeing a documentary on the order's work in India. Only eighteen at the time, Livermore has been studying to enter medical school -- a lifelong goal -- but virtually overnight severs her many ties with family, friends, and the life she's known in beautiful, rural New South Wales in order to train as a sister to aid the poor. In the process, she also gives herself over to the order's unexpectedly severe, ascetic regime, which demands blind obedience and submission. |
| Subject |
Livermore, Colette.
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Spiritual biography.
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Missionaries of Charity -- Biography.
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Ex-nuns -- Biography.
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| ISBN |
9781416593614 |
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1416593616 |
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