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1-2-3 Meme

I have been tagged for the 1-2-3 Meme by Mark at Jesusmanifesto.com. The game is to grab the book nearest to you and turn to page 123. Find the 5th sentance and share the next 3 sentances with everyone. Then you tag five people.
My sentence is from Seasons of Celebration by Thomas Merton a [...]

prayer

MY LORD GOD, I have no idea where I am going.
I do not see the road ahead of me.
I cannot know for certain where it will end.
Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think that I am following your will does not mean that I am actually doing so.
But I [...]

Christ is massacred in His members

In the whole world, throughout the whole of history, even among religious men and among saints, Christ suffers dismemberment.
His physical Body was crucified by Pilate and the Pharisees; his body is drawn and quartered from age to age by the devils in the agony of that dis-union which bred and vegetates in our soul, prone [...]

The Thomas Merton Project

So after much consideration, I am starting the Thomas Merton Project. This is an experiment in Spiritual Formation is which I plan to read mostly books by Thomas Merton for the rest of 2007. There are so many new books too read and I confess I tend to be distracted by novelty. So for the [...]

Soul Searching: The Journey of Thomas Merton

Just released– Soul Searching: The Journey of Thomas Merton

Now here is the documentary that goes to the heart of Merton’s spiritual journey. Award-winning producer Morgan Atkinson spent years researching Merton’s work, as well as interviewing Merton friends, scholars and authorities on the spiritual life. Atkinson’s cameras reveal life at the Abbey of Gethsemani, Merton’s [...]