{"id":27712,"date":"2013-05-07T13:55:27","date_gmt":"2013-05-07T17:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/05\/the-ear-of-the-heart-an-actres\/"},"modified":"2016-01-08T17:21:18","modified_gmt":"2016-01-08T21:21:18","slug":"the-ear-of-the-heart-an-actres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/05\/the-ear-of-the-heart-an-actres\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ear of the Heart: An Actress&#8217; Journey From Hollywood to Holy Vows: Dolores Hart gives personal insight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/Mother%20Dolores%20with%20John%20Paul.jpg\" alt=\"Mother Dolores with John Paul.jpg\" width=\"255\" height=\"255\" \/>You know from a previous post here that <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/abbeyofreginalaudis.org\/community-mdh.html\">Mother Dolores Hart, OSB<\/a><\/strong>, nun of the Abbey of Regina Laudis (Bethlehem, CT) published her autobiography, <i>The Ear of the Heart: An Actress&#8217; Journey From Hollywood to Holy Vows<\/i> (Ignatius Press, 2013). The book is co-authored with lifelong friend Richard DeNeut. There was a book signing this past Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px;\">After a career in acting, Mother Dolores entered Benedictine life <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/abbeyofreginalaudis.org\">Regina Laudis Abbey<\/a><\/strong> in 1963. The abbey was founded in 1947.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px;\">Joseph Pronechen of the<i> National Catholic Register<\/i> <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncregister.com\/daily-news\/mother-dolores-hart-from-movie-star-to-heavenly-star\">interviewed Mother Dolores<\/a><\/strong> at the Abbey. One of the things worth hearing from Hart is:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The one thing is the Gregorian chant, and what a gift it is to be able to sing and to pray at the same time. I think that I would hate to see people lose that part of the Tradition of the Church, because the chant goes back over a thousand years.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px;\">Mother Dolores has been featured on the Communio blog in the past. See a post <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/2011\/10\/mother-dolores-hart-speaks-abo.html\">here<\/a><\/strong> and<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/2012\/02\/nun-hits-hollywood-again-mothe.html\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know from a previous post here that Mother Dolores Hart, OSB, nun of the Abbey of Regina Laudis (Bethlehem, CT) published her autobiography, The Ear of the Heart: An Actress&#8217; Journey From Hollywood to Holy Vows (Ignatius Press, 2013). The book is co-authored with lifelong friend Richard DeNeut. There was a book signing this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/05\/the-ear-of-the-heart-an-actres\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Ear of the Heart: An Actress&#8217; Journey From Hollywood to Holy Vows: Dolores Hart gives personal insight<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[3179,1796,3185],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27712"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27712"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33086,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27712\/revisions\/33086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}