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Informationen zum Autor Maria Harris was a writer, speaker, and advocate for religious education. A former member of the Sisters of St. Joseph, Maria dedicated her life to teaching and leading Catholic parochial schools. In addition to her grade school work, Harris was a very successful teacher of higher education at Immaculate Conception seminary, Andover Newton Theological School, and Fordham University. Klappentext In keeping with the bestselling When I Am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple, and Gail Sheehy's New Passages, Jubilee Time celebrates the freedom, opportunities, and power of older women, who are too often maligned in our youth-obsessed culture. Based on the Jubilee passage in Leviticus--"You shall hallow the fiftieth year. It shall be a Jubilee for you"--this practical and philosophical book helps women assess what values and beliefs they want to carry forward into the second half of life. A Jubilarian herself, Harris draws on her own experience and cites others--including May Sarton, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, M.F.K. Fisher, Florida Scott-Maxwell, Doris Grumbach, as well as more than one hundred "ordinary" women--to reflect the variety and vitality of this unheralded community. In lyrical prose punctuated by exercises and meditations, she invites readers to rest and reflect, stop and take stock, celebrate and cultivate the rich rewards of a mature spirituality.INTRODUCTION You shall count off seven weeks of years, seven times seven years, so that the time of the seven weeks of years shall be to you forty-nine years. Then you shall hallow the fiftieth year. It shall be a jubilee for you. Lev. 25:8, 10 With these words as summons, I invite you to enter Jubilee Time. I ask you to join me in exploring the biblical Jubilee, a feast celebrating the fiftieth year and providing the basis of a spirituality for women in the second half of life. Too little known, the many facets of Jubilee are gifts to every woman facing who she is now and what she might become in the years and decades following her fiftieth birthday. The first mention of Jubilee occurs in the Hebrew Bible, in the twenty-fifth chapter of the Book of Leviticus. There, a caring, attentive God speaks to a weary, exhausted people who are entering a new chapter in their lives. “When you enter the land I am giving you,” says this God, “the land shall observe a Sabbath. Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyards and gather in their yield; but in the seventh year there shall be a Sabbath of complete rest for the land, a Sabbath for the Lord.” This people’s God begins by establishing a foundation of rest and re-creation—a spirituality—for them. From the beginning of their sojourn in the new land, they are to alternate work and withdrawal from work. This creates a rhythmic pattern that increases in momentum with every seven-year cycle. During those sabbatical years, they are to step back from their ordinary routines and practice a reverent attitude toward one another, the land, and themselves. They are to forgive debts and return property. They are to honor the Divine Mystery Who is their origin. As they do they become readied for the great ritual of Jubilee. Finally it arrives: You shall count off seven weeks of years, seven times seven years, so that the period of seven weeks of years gives forty-nine years. Then you shall have the trumpet sounded loud; on the tenth day of the seventh month—on the day of atonement—you shall have the trumpet sounded throughout all your land. And you shall hallow the fiftieth year, and you shall proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants; it shall be a jubilee for you; you shall return, every one of you, to your property and every one of you to your family. That fiftieth year shall be a jubilee for you; you shall not sow, or reap the aftergrowth, or...
