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Bride Spirit (1999)

Title: Bride Spirit: Songs of the Beloved
Artist: Kathleen Deignan, Anima Schola
Year: 1999

Este libro, imaginado y dado a luz por Kathleen Deignan, reúne algunos de los más bellos y reveladores pasajes de las obras de Thomas Merton, dispuestos a modo de oraciones para rezar cada día de la semana al amanecer, por la mañana, por la tarde y por la noche. El resultado es una versión contemporánea de la tradicional forma de libro de oración que llamamos “Libro de las Horas”.

Christ Spirit: The Eschatology of Shaker Christianity

Heretic Blood: An Audiobiography by Michael Higgins

For those who have spent the better part of their lives reading the life and legacy of Thomas Merton, listening to the audiobiography Heretic Blood will be a fresh encounter with the man whose story has become a twentieth-century spiritual epic. For those new generations of Mertonphiles still at the foothills of the many-storied mountain […]

Thomas Merton, My Brother: His Journey Into Freedom, Compassion and Final Integration

Basil Pennington has added another insightful volume to his own growing corpus of writings on his friend and fellow Cistercian with the collection of essays Thomas Merton, My Brother: His Journey Into Freedom, Compassion and Final Integration. Gathering papers which were prepared for a variety of formats and audiences over the years, Pennington manages to […]

The Forest Is My Bride: Thomas Merton’s Writings on Nature

The mystery of Thomas Merton’s marriage to the forest is a rich and overlooked sub-theme in one of the most celebrated spiritual stories of modern times. A contemplative master of monumental fame and significance, Thomas Merton’s life reads like a great drama in which all the crises and challenges of modernity are portrayed in the […]

The Servant’s Heart (2002)

Title: The Servant’s Heart: Songs of Devotion
Artist: Kathleen Deignan
Year: 2002

Seeking Paradise: The Spirit of the Shakers

On December 10, 1960 Thomas Merton wrote to Shaker scholar Edward Deming Andrews expressing his interest in writing a book about the highly celebrated and enigmatic 19th century American utopian community, known as the Millennial Church and popularly called the Shakers. Sadly, Merton never realized that intention. But in Seeking Paradise: The Spirit of the […]

Across the Rim of Chaos: Thomas Merton’s Prophetic Vision

The published proceedings of the Fifth General Conference of the Thomas Merton Society of Great Britain and Ireland in 2004 compose a rich and challenging set of reflections on the crisis of living faith and faithful living in this world of war and terror. The title of the conference and of the book is drawn […]

Within the Shadow and the Disguise: Thomas Merton’s Sacramental Vision

The selection from the Asian Journal1 chosen as the context for our reflection is a hauntingly rich evocation of Merton’s whole spiritual biography which in a poetic way summarizes the familiar themes that were the preoccupation of his life. At the end of the impressionistic remembrance of his visit to Polonnaruwa just days before his […]