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VIOLENCE: War, by Thomas Merton
From Love and Living Living in a world that is constantly at war, in an age when all war has become total war, we scarcely need an explanation of what war is. And yet we are so familiar with it that...
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PRAYER: Thou Art Not As I Have Conceived Thee, by Thomas Merton
Lord, it is nearly midnight and I am waiting for You in the darkness and the great silence. I am sorry for all my sins. Do not let me ask any more than to sit in the darkness and light no lights of my...
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MYSTICISM: The Time Is The Time Of No Room, by Thomas Merton
from Raids on the Unspeakable We live in the time of no room, which is the time of the end. The time when everyone is obsessed with lack of time, lack of space, with saving time, conquering space,...
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ASH WEDNESDAY: Spiritual Medicine, by Thomas Merton
From Seasons of Celebration Even the darkest moments of the liturgy are filled with joy, and Ash Wednesday, the beginning of the Lenten fast, is a day of happiness, a Christian feast. It cannot be...
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SUFFERING: To Know The Cross, by Thomas Merton
From No Man Is An Island I pray that we may be found worthy to be cursed, censured, and ground down, and even put to death in the name of Jesus Christ, so long as Christ himself is not put to death in...
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PRAYER: I Do Not Understand Your Ways, by Thomas Merton
My God, I frankly do not understand your ways with me. You fill me with desires that people have been canonized for having and for carrying out. Then you tell me not to carry them out, and you tell me...
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PRAYER: Prayer For Silence, by Thomas Merton
Lady, Queen of Heaven, pray me into solitude and silence and unity, that all my ways may be immaculate in God. Let me be content with whatever darkness surrounds me, finding him always by me, in his...
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PRAYER: Contemplative Prayer, An Introduction by Thomas Merton
From Contemplative Prayer He who walks in darkness, to whom no light appears, let him trust in the Name of Yahweh, let him rely upon his God. (Isaiah 50:10) I will give them a heart to understand that...
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SPIRITUAL FORMATION: Mercy Within Mercy Within Mercy by Christine M. Bochen
(Presidential Address – ITMS Seventh General Meeting June 7, 2001) Epiphanies of Mercy Christians, who celebrate annually the Feast of the Epiphany, commemorating the manifestation of Jesus to the...
View ArticlePRAYER: For Unity Of Faiths by Thomas Merton
O God, we are one with you. You have made us one with you. You have taught us that if we are open to one another, you dwell in us. Help us to preserve this openness and to fight for it with all our...
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