Book description
Why is 'being happy' such an imperative nowadays? What meaning do
people give happiness?
In this book Abbot Christopher turns to monastic wisdom to offer
answers, and to explain that in essence, happiness is a gift, not an
achievement, the fruit of giving and receiving blessings.
Following the same accessible and engaging format of Finding Sanctuary
, Abbot Christopher takes different aspects of happiness, examines them,
tells us what monastic wisdom has to say about them, and offers us steps
towards our own journey to finding happiness. Father Christopher
Jamison is the Abbot of Worth, a Benedictine monastery in Sussex, which
featured in the BBC2 series 'The Monastery' (3 million viewers). Born in
Melbourne, Australia in 1951, he studied at Downside School and Oxford
University. After becoming a monk in 1973, he taught at Worth School and
became Headmaster in 1994. He was elected Abbot in 2002, is President of
the International Commission on Benedictine Education and sits on the
Council of the Alliance for International Monasticism, a body that
promotes links between monasteries across the North/South divide. He is
the author of Finding Sanctuary.
