Month: August 2022
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Chapter 1: Reflection 16 – The School of Charity
On the second day in Dharamsala, TM was truly experiencing a sense of connection, as he writes in his journal: “I do feel very much at home with the Tibetans…” 1 In another entry from the same day, TM allows himself to imagine the ways in which such a rich spiritual culture might inform his…
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Chapter 1: Reflection 15 – There is Something About Lepers
Early in his first prayer to St. Mary, Anselm presents himself to the Mother of Mercy as one made unclean by the disease of his sins: “I long to come before you in my misery, sick with the sickness of vice, in pain from the wounds of crimes, putrid with the ulcers of sin.” 1…
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Chapter 1: Reflection 14 – Feeling of Wele and Woe
When asked how innovative it was that Anselm combined more “devotional” material, such as prayers, with more “discursive” material, such philosophical arguments, scholar Eileen Sweeney provides additional insight into what TM describes as the “wonderful unity” of prayer and philosophy in Anselm. The professor explains that the “contrasts in Anselm between those two elements comes…
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Chapter 1: Reflection 13 – A Perfect Synthesis
In the first of a series of five conferences on Anselm of Canterbury which he offered to the novices at Gethsemani Abbey between June and December of 1963, TM, in his very first words, challenges his students to fortify themselves for the task before them: Now I want to get into this deal with St.…
Julian of Norwich and Other Tibetan Lamas 