01663nam a2200277u 4500 65209220 OCoLC 20250624142645.0 ta 091209s2006 nyu b 000 0aeng d 1582433488 : $24.00 9781582433486 OCO OCO BAKER AJM WZWW Bissell, Beryl Singleton. 20327 The scent of God : a memoir / Beryl Singleton Bissell. New York : Counterpoint, c2006. viii, 294 p. 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 291) As a teenager, Beryl Bissell entered a cloistered monastery of the Poor Clares in New Jersey, following her passion and believing God had called her to this way of life. After fifteen years in the convent, enduring periods of bliss as well as inner torment and obsessive disorders, she is called to Puerto Rico to care for her ailing father. There she meets and falls in love with handsome Italian priest, Padre Vittorio. For the next three years, Beryl struggles to reconcile her spiritual longing with human desire while maintaining a chaste and loving relationship with Vittorio. Throughout the events that follow, the author tells a powerful story of love, death, guilt, and redemption--a pilgrimage that reaches beyond dogma to personal truth and evokes a transformation that changes not only Beryl, but the lives of those around her. Bissell, Beryl Singleton. 20327 Nuns United States Biography. 20328 Spirituality Biography 20329 Catholic Biography 20330 ddc BOOK 2928 2928 0 0 ABELJ abelj B 2016-10-26 0 B BISS 11133 2016-10-26 24.00 2016-10-26 BOOK