The Noble Try

The Noble Try

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ghost story

part II: the visitation

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Isabel Cowles Murphy
May 11, 2026
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On my first day at the monastery, I plucked a book from the shelves in the spare, dimly-lit kitchen…it had the word “supernatural” in the title and seemed out of sync with the library’s other offerings: Teresa of Avila; Thomas Merton; Richard Rohr. Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

The book’s introduction was by Kathy Lee Gifford, who is not Kathy Griffin, t…

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