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@RobertEllsberg

"All love is a rehearsal for death." Remembering the revolutionary priest and poet, Ernesto Cardenal

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Remembering the revolutionary priest and poet, Ernesto Cardenal

Thomas Merton wrote an introduction to a lyrical book of reflections by Cardenal, Vida en Amor: “In a time of conflict, anxiety, war, cruelty, and confusion, the reader may be surprised that this...

4:59 PM · Mar 5, 2020

Lovely. Do you by chance have a link to the full poem on Merton’s death, either in English or in Spanish?

@RobertEllsberg

Mar 6, 2020

Sorry, not any more.

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Chris Doran

@cjdoran1

Mar 5, 2020

I was sorry to read that his funeral Mass was disrupted. I was also sorry when the Sandinista government he belonged to disrupted the Mass Pope John Paul II celebrated.