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The Hawk and the Dove
The Hawk and the Dove | Penelope Wilcock
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At the start of the first novel Father Peregrine is appointed Abbot, at the age of 45. Father Peregrine, whose name in religion is Columba, is an arrogant, impatient man, a hawk trying hard to be a dove, whose struggles to manifest the character he considers to be expected of an abbot provide much of the narrative. He is surrounded by a company of flawed, human monks who are for the most part also serious about their calling, and who again for the most part come to love their driven and hard-driving leader. They lived six centuries ago, yet their struggles are our ownfinding our niche; coping with failure; living with impossible people; and discovering that we are the impossible ones.
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The Hawk and the Dove | Penelope Wilcock
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#YESvember17

I‘m catching up on my own photo challenge now. ☺️

The Hawk and the Dove trilogy was given to me as a gift from a friend a number of years ago. I‘m a Christian but I‘ve never really gotten into Christian fiction.

This is different, though. It follows the story of a group of monks as they struggle to make sense of their medieval world and their faith. It was not easy, trite, or cheesy, but challenging, beautiful and #Graceful .