Book Description
Describes Thomas Merton's later years, focusing on his daily life in the monastery, and shares remembrances by his fellow monks
Author : M. Basil Pennington
Publisher : Burns & Oates
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 37,22 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780826410122
Describes Thomas Merton's later years, focusing on his daily life in the monastery, and shares remembrances by his fellow monks
Author : M. Basil Pennington
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,53 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Trappists
ISBN :
Author : M. Basil Pennington
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 46,99 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
"A bibliographic appendix" (p. [172]-205) is an essay on Merton's writings.
Author : Paul Quenon
Publisher : Ave Maria Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 24,53 MB
Release : 2018-04-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1594717605
Winner of two 2019 Catholic Press Association Awards: Memoir (First Place) and Cover Design (Second Place). Monastic life and its counter-cultural wisdom come alive in the stories and lessons of Br. Paul Quenon, O.C.S.O., during his more than five decades as a Trappist at the Abbey of Gethsemani. He served as a novice under Thomas Merton and he also welcomed some of the monastery's more well-known visitors, including Sr. Helen Prejean and Seamus Heaney, to Merton's hermitage. In Praise of the Useless Life includes Quenon's quiet reflections on what it means to live each day with careful attentiveness. The humble peace and simplicity of the monastery and of Quenon's daily life are beautifully portrayed in this memoir. Whether it be through the daily routine of the monastery, his love of the outdoors no matter the season, or his lively and interesting conversations with visitors (reciting Emily Dickinson with Pico Iyer, discussing Merton and poetry with Czeslaw Milosz), Quenon's gentle musings display his love for the beauty in his vocation and the people he’s encountered along the way. Inspired by his novice master Merton, the poet and photographer’s stories remind us that the beauty of life can best be seen in the "uselessness" of daily life—having a quiet chat with a friend, spending time in contemplation—in our vocations, and in the memories we make along the way.
Author : Thomas Merton
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 913 pages
File Size : 47,69 MB
Release : 2009-03-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0061741728
The second volume of Thomas Merton's "gusty, passionate journals" (Thomas Moore) chronicles Merton's advancements to priesthood and emergence as a bestselling author with the surprise success of his autobiography, The Seven Storey Mountain. Spanning an eleven-year period, Entering the Silence reflects Merton's struggle to balance his vocation to solitude with the budding literary career that would soon established him as one of the most important spiritual writers of our century.
Author : Thomas Merton
Publisher : Christian Large Print
Page : 770 pages
File Size : 40,27 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780802724977
One man's search to find his role in the world is revealed in the writer's portrait of his youthful political activism and entry into a Trappist monastery
Author : Hugh Turley
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 36,22 MB
Release : 2018-03-07
Category : Conspiracies
ISBN : 9781548077389
Seldom can one predict that a book will have an effect on history, but this is such a work. Merton's many biographers and the American press now say unanimously that he died from accidental electrocution. From a careful examination of the official record, including crime scene photographs that the authors have found that the investigating police in Thailand never saw, and from reading the letters of witnesses, they have discovered that the accidental electrocution conclusion is totally false. The widely repeated story that Merton had taken a shower and was therefore wet when he touched a lethal faulty fan was made up several years after the event and is completely contradicted by the evidence. Hugh Turley and David Martin identify four individuals as the primary promoters of the false accidental electrocution narrative. Another person, they show, should have been treated as a murder suspect. The most likely suspect in plotting Merton's murder, a man who was a much stronger force for peace than most people realize, they identify as the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States government. Thomas Merton was the most important Roman Catholic spiritual and anti-warfare-state writer of the 20th century. To date, he has been the subject of 28 biographies and numerous other books. Remarkably, up to now no one has looked critically at the mysterious circumstances surrounding his sudden death in Thailand. From its publication date in the 50th anniversary of his death, into the foreseeable future, this carefully researched work will be the definitive, authoritative book on how Thomas Merton died.
Author : Thomas Merton
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 23,7 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780811209311
Discusses Blake, Joyce, Pasternak, Faulkner, Styron, O'Connor, Camus, symbolism, creativity, alienation, contemplation, and freedom.
Author : Thomas Merton
Publisher : HMH
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 11,96 MB
Release : 2002-11-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0547544960
This diary of a monastic life is “a continuation of The Seven Storey Mountain . . . Astonishing” (Commonweal). Chronicling six years of Thomas Merton’s life in a Trappist monastery, The Sign of Jonas takes us through his day-to-day experiences at the Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani, where he lived in silence and prayer for much of his life. Concluding with the account of Merton’s ordination as a priest, this diary documents his growing acceptance of his vocation—and the greater meaning he found within his private world of contemplation. “This book is made unmistakably real and almost, at times, unbearably poignant by the fact that the exuberance of youth so often wells up through it with rapture, impatience, and even bluster.” —TheNew York Times “A stirring book—the most readable and on the whole, most illuminating of the author’s writings.” —Catholic World
Author : Patrick Hart
Publisher : Liturgical Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 42,54 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Winner of the Religious Book Award of the Catholic Press Association for 1974