Jan 31, birthday of Thomas Merton, Trappist monk. In 1967 in a “Letter on the Contemplative Life” he addressed his “brother” in the world: “My brother, perhaps in my solitude I have become as it were an explorer for you, a searcher in realms in which you are not able to visit...
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“I have learned to rejoice that Jesus is in the world in people who know Him not, that He is at work in them when they think themselves far from Him, and it is my joy to tell you to hope...Hope not because you think you can be good, but because God loves us irrespective of ...
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“our merits and whatever is good in us comes from His love, not from our own doing...God loves you, is present to you, lives in you, dwells in you, calls you, saves you, and offers you an understanding and light like nothing you ever found in books or heard in sermons.”
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Sadly, we are living in the same world he confronted—a “post-Christian” world in which we could imagine blowing up humanity for the defense of “democracy”— and yet with reason to hope in the gospel message that there is a power stronger than death and deceit.
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Thank you for sharing the quote. This letter he wrote in 1967 at the request of Paul VI is one of my most favorite pieces of writing of his.
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I appreciate this memorial about my father by @ggrenwald above any I have read today--for his comprehensive review of his bio & history, for his attention to themes generally overlooked about his post-Vietnam life, but particularly for deep appreciation of his human qualities.🙏
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Here's my @RollingStone article on Daniel Ellsberg, the heroic Pentagon Papers leaker who died today at 92:
"We’re Told Never to Meet Our Childhood Heroes. Knowing Daniel Ellsberg Proved That Wrong"
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