A Year with Thomas Merton

A Year with Thomas Merton PDF Author: Thomas Merton
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061757675
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 400

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A 365 daily with inspirational and provocative selections from the journals of Thomas Merton combined with drawings and photographs by Merton. This volume of daily inspiration from Thomas Merton draws from Merton's journals and papers to present, each day, a seasonally appropriate and thought-provoking insight or observation. Each month will begin with one of Merton's delightful pen-and-ink drawings or one of his elegant black-and-white photographs.

A Year with Thomas Merton

A Year with Thomas Merton PDF Author: Thomas Merton
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061757675
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 400

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Book Description
A 365 daily with inspirational and provocative selections from the journals of Thomas Merton combined with drawings and photographs by Merton. This volume of daily inspiration from Thomas Merton draws from Merton's journals and papers to present, each day, a seasonally appropriate and thought-provoking insight or observation. Each month will begin with one of Merton's delightful pen-and-ink drawings or one of his elegant black-and-white photographs.

A Book of Hours

A Book of Hours PDF Author: Thomas Merton
Publisher: Ave Maria Press
ISBN: 1933495332
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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Book Description
Thomas Merton was the most popular proponent of the Christian contemplative tradition in the twentieth century. Now, for the first time, some of his most lyrical and prayerful writings have been arranged into A Book of Hours, a rich resource for daily prayer and contemplation that imitates the increasingly popular ancient monastic practice of "praying the hours." Editor Kathleen Deignan mined Merton's voluminous writings, arranging prayers for Dawn, Day, Dusk, and Dark for each of the days of the week. A Book of Hours allows for a slice of monastic contemplation in the midst of hectic modern life, with psalms, prayers, readings, and reflections.

Thomas Merton

Thomas Merton PDF Author: Thomas Merton
Publisher: Modern Spiritual Masters
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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"With a substantial introduction Thomas Merton includes a broad range of Merton's writings, including his letters, and highlights his threefold call: to prayer, to compassion, and to unity. It offers the essential writings of one of the greatest spiritual teachers of our time."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

When the Trees Say Nothing

When the Trees Say Nothing PDF Author: Thomas Merton
Publisher: Ave Maria Press
ISBN: 1933495510
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 192

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First published in 2003 and now available in paperback to celebrate the one hundredth anniversary of Thomas Merton's birth, When the Trees Say Nothing has sold more than 60,000 copies and continually inspires readers with its unique collection of Merton's luminous writings on nature, arranged for reflection and meditation. Thomas Merton was a Trappist monk, author, poet, social commentator, and perhaps the most influential and widely published spiritual writer of the twentieth century. In When the Trees Say Nothing, editor Kathleen Deignan sheds new light on Merton by focusing on a neglected theme of his writing: the natural world as a manifestation of the divine. Drawing from Merton's voluminous writing on nature, Deignan has thematically assembled a collection of lucid, poetic reflections. Chapters on the four elements, the seasons, the Earth and its creatures, and the sun, moon, and stars provide brief passages from his diverse works that reveal the presence of God in creation.

The Asian Journal of Thomas Merton

The Asian Journal of Thomas Merton PDF Author: Thomas Merton
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811205702
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 484

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"This is quintessential Merton."--The Catholic Review.

The Seven Storey Mountain

The Seven Storey Mountain PDF Author: Thomas Merton
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780281073665
Category : Christian biography
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
This title tells the story of Thomas Merton's search for faith and peace in a world which first fascinated and then appalled him. It is written with the profound insight of a man who has seen himself clearly.

Dialogues with Silence

Dialogues with Silence PDF Author: Thomas Merton
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061743240
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 208

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Book Description
An intensely personal devotional book from Thomas Merton, the ultimate spiritual writer of our time, showing his contemplative and religious side through his prayers and rarely-seen drawings. The only Merton gift book available. Dialogues with Silence contains a selection of prayers from throughout Merton's life--from his journals, letters, poetry, books--accompanied by all 100 of Merton's rarely seen, delightful Zen-like pen-and-ink drawings, and will attract new readers as well as Merton devotees. There is no other Merton devotional like this, and the paperback edition will be elegantly designed and packaged.

The Collected Poems of Thomas Merton

The Collected Poems of Thomas Merton PDF Author: Thomas Merton
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811207690
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1086

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Book Description
"With the [publication of this book], an ever-wider audience may more fully appreciate the ... range of the poet's technique, the scope of his concerns, and the humaneness of his vision"--Back cover.

Follow the Ecstasy

Follow the Ecstasy PDF Author: John Howard Griffin
Publisher: Wings Press
ISBN: 1609401433
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 193

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Book Description
In 1969, one year after Thomas Merton's tragic (and suspicious) death, John Howard Griffin was invited to write a biography of America's most famous monk, a monk who strangely had become a best-selling theologian. The result was Follow the Ecstasy: The Hermitage Years of Thomas Merton (1983). Both Merton and Griffin were converts to Catholicism, and they had become fast friends during Griffin's occasional retreats to the Trappist Abbey of Gethsemani where Merton was cloistered. As Robert Bonazzi writes in his Foreword, "With natural humility and intense spirituality, they taught each other by example and silence." Merton and Griffin were both photographers as well as writers. Griffin wrote about Merton's painting and photography in A Hidden Wholeness: The Visual World of Thomas Merton (1970). They also shared a fascination with the French theologian Jacques Maritain, as well as French modernists Pierre Reverdy, George Braque, and Albert Camus. Griffin fell ill before he could finish his biography of Merton, and the mantle of official biographer passed to Michael Mott, author of The Seven Mountains of Thomas Merton, an essential compendium of the monk's life. Yet Follow the Ecstasy gets closer to the man--a portrait made by one who shared not only personal histories and interests with Merton, but an "intuitive perspective of solitude."

Life and Holiness

Life and Holiness PDF Author: Thomas Merton
Publisher: Colchis Books
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 162

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Book Description
This is intended to be a very simple book, an elementary treatment of a few basic ideas in Christian spirituality. Hence it should be useful to any Christian, and indeed to anyone who wants to acquaint himself with some principles of the interior life as it is understood in the Catholic Church. Nothing is here said of such subjects as “contemplation” or even “mental prayer.” And yet the book emphasizes what is at once the most common and the most mysterious aspect in the Christian life: grace, the power and the light of God in us, purifying our hearts, transforming us in Christ, making us true sons of God, enabling us to act in the world as his instruments for the good of all men and for his glory. This is therefore a meditation on some fundamental themes appropriate to the active life. It must be said at once that the active life is essential to every Christian. Clearly the active life must mean more than the life which is led in religious institutes of men and women who teach, care for the sick, and so on. (When one is talking of the “active life” as opposed to the “contemplative life,” this is the usual reference.) Here action is not looked at in opposition to contemplation, but as an expression of charity and as a necessary consequence of union with God by baptism.