Monastery Mornings: My Unusual Boyhood Among the Saints and Monks

In the early 1970s an insecure boy with a vibrant imagination-and struggling with his parents' recent divorce-found an unlikely family in the company of monks at Holy Trinity Abbey. There Michael O'Brien discovered a community filled with warmth, humor, and compassion. He grew up alongside the monks as they farmed, ate, prayed, buried their dead, and shared the joys of life. Monastery Mornings speaks to the value of spiritual fatherhood, and the stability of the spiritual life for all ages ...