Month: October 2023
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Chapter 4: Reflection 6 – The Trinity Fulfilled My Hert Most with Joy
And in the same shewing, sodeinly the trinity fulfilled my hert most with joy. And so I undertode it shall be in heaven without end, to all that shall come ther. For the trinity is God, God is the trinity. The trinity is our maker, the trinity is our keper, the trinity is our everlasting…
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Chapter 4: Reflection 5 – The Moon Pouring Its Peacefulness
By February of 1941, TM decided to make a retreat during Holy Week and Easter, and the first place that come to mind was “the Trappist abbey” that Dan Walsh had told him about: And as soon as I thought about it, I saw that it was the only choice. That was where I needed…
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Chapter 4: Reflection 4 – A Vocation to Hide in the Torrent
As TM continues his informal dialogue with the Mother of God in his journal entry of July 17, 1956, he introduces the figure of the prophet, Elijah [Elias], before briefly acknowledging having unexpectedly encountered the very One with whom he now converses: Today … it happened in the refectory that the vocation of Elias to…
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Chapter 4: Reflection 3 – For Now We See Through a Glass
In a journal entry dated July 17, 1956, Thomas Merton included a section he named, “Prayer to Our Lady of Mount Carmel.” He was remembering an experience that he had some 16 years earlier during a visit to Havana, Cuba. A younger TM writes about this experience in another journal entry, this one written in…
Julian of Norwich and Other Tibetan Lamas 