This work, originally inspired by the liturgical renewal brought on by Vatican II, contains Thomas Merton's meditations on the seasons of the liturgical year.
Praise for The Last of the Fathers “A study that will have to be on the shelves of all libraries and in the personal collections of all who are interested in spirituality . . .
Novitiate Conferences on Scripture and Liturgy 1 Thomas Merton Patrick F. O'Connell. never-published Time–Life Bible. ... Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers; see Merton, Opening the Bible, 54–55, 63–64, 76. 102. Bultmann et al., Kerygma and ...
Merton argues that prayer flourishes best in the desert. Here, he shows how to find the desert in the midst of the busy world. Where Prayer Flourishes will open a treasury of teaching about prayer to a wider audience.
This guide to monastic prayer, written in 1968 and thus turning out to be Thomas Merton’s final testament to us, is now available in a new edition commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of his death.
The third volume of Thomas Merton's journals chronicles Merton's attempts to reconcile his desire for solitude and contemplation with the demands of his new-found celebrity status within the strictures of conventional monastic life.
With simplicity, eloquence, and power Thomas Merton explores the mystery of the Risen Christ. Previously unpublished, this piece captures both the author's energy and his vision of an authentic Christianity....
. . . The mainspring of everything in St. Benedict is the love of Christ 'in Himself, in the poor, in the monastic community, in the individual brethren. . . . This is the key to the monastic life and spirit.
Writing at the height of the Cold War, Merton issued a passionate cry for sanity and a challenge to the idea that unthinkable violence can be squared with the Gospel...
"Those who think there can be a just cause for measures that gravely risk leading to the destruction of the entire human race are in the most dangerous illusion." --Thomas...
The spiritual and psychological insights of these essays were nurtured in a monastic milieu, but their issues are universally human.
The American trappist monk outlines means of reorganizing monastic life to meet the needs of contemporary man
... their way celebrate the great feasts of the old Law in the City of David . [ 72 ] They are the shortest of the ... back to Paradise . Christ died that we might recover all that Adam lost in Eden , and more besides . What had Adam in Eden ...
... Raids on the Unspeakable,179 and “The Good News of the Nativity” in the posthumous volume Love and Living.180 The two complement each other in approaching the mystery of the incarnation from different perspectives. The first is ...
... angels he did not mean that, because all other poetry was merely written by men, his was superior to theirs. On the contrary he meant that all good poetry was “dictated by angels” and that he himself could not claim any praise for “his” ...
Wherever man and society exist; where there are hopes, ideals, aspirations for a better future; where there is love - and where there is mingled pain and happiness - there the contemplative life has a place.
In this new collection of thoughts and meditations selected from his most inspiring books and letters, Merton's radiant wisdom and foresight serve as a beacon of light for all of us searching to find true meaning and solace in today's ...
... illusion ; it's regarded as reality . I would say , therefore , that it's very im- portant for us , in our kind of life , to be unmasking these illusions , instead of creating a different set of them . You take a person from outside ...
The Collected Poems of Thomas Merton
The letters in this book, written between Merton and Cardenal from 1959–1968, give us fascinating insights into the early spiritual and political awakenings of eventual Sandinista and exponent of liberation theology Ernesto Cardenal, who ...