01768nam a2200289u  450000100100000000300070001000500170001700700030003400800410003702000250007802400180010304000250012104900090014610000370015524500610019226000380025330000260029150400490031752008440036660000370121065000430124765100350129065100310132594200140135699900150137095200930138565209220 OCoLC 20250624142645.0ta091209s2006    nyu      b    000 0aeng d  a1582433488 :c$24.003 a9781582433486  aOCOcOCOdBAKERdAJM  aWZWW1 aBissell, Beryl Singleton.92032714aThe scent of God :ba memoir /cBeryl Singleton Bissell.  aNew York :bCounterpoint,cc2006.  aviii, 294 p. c25 cm.  aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 291)  aAs 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.10aBissell, Beryl Singleton.920327 0aNunszUnited StatesvBiography.920328  aSpiritualityvBiography920329  aCatholicvBiography920330  2ddccBOOK  c2928d2928  4070aABELJbabeljcBd2016-10-26l0oB BISSp11133r2016-10-26v24.00w2016-10-26yBOOK