By Thomas Merton,Patrick F. O'Connell
In this set of novitiate meetings from the overdue Fifties, Thomas Merton presents a bright and unique advent to the normal trend and practices of the monastic day through the interval instantly previous the momentous adjustments that might be brought within the wake of the second one Vatican Council. Combining useful guide with non secular and theological mirrored image, this 5th quantity of Merton's instructing notes brings the reader into the choir and bankruptcy room, scriptorium and cloisters of the Abbey of Gethsemani, and gives perception into the ecclesial, contemplative, paschal, and Trinitarian dimensions of Cistercian life.
Patrick F. O'Connell is professor within the departments of English and theology at Gannon college, Erie, Pennsylvania. A founding member and previous president of the foreign Thomas Merton Society, he edits The Merton Seasonaland is coauthor (with William H. Shannon and Christine M. Bochen) of The Thomas Merton Encyclopedia. He has edited 4 past volumes of Thomas Merton's monastic meetings for the Monastic knowledge sequence: Cassian and the Fathers; Pre-Benedictine Monasticism; An advent to Christian Mysticism; and The Rule of Saint Benedict.
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