"Viens"

This semi-autobiographical story describes the adventure of a Dutch priest who experiences a second vocation at Notre Dame de Colombier in southern France. It turns out to be a double-barreled vocation to restore a chapel while also letting himself be rebuilt by becoming a hermit. A story of despair and disbelief, resignation and surrender, desire and trust. As a traveling companion, you join the adventure and become acquainted with the chapel and its intriguing legend. Its deeper layers unfold more and more throughout the trilogy, revealing its mysterious vocation and, at the same time, it’s very actual mission. This first volume follows the way along unforeseen detours and unexpected twists and turns to a sanctuary of silence in a world sinking in its own noise. A path of acceptance, letting go and coming home. Even before the destination is reached, a first American traveling companion joins ‘by chance’, who is captivated by the legend and then by the chapel. A spiritual kinship develops in which they enrich each other with insight and knowledge. The chapel and her legend have changed their lives forever....