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.”
