"Today the concept of truth is viewed with suspicion, because truth is identified with violence. Over history there have, unfortunately, been episodes when people sought to defend the truth with violence. But they are two contrasting realities. Truth cannot be imposed with means other than itself! Truth can only come with its own light. Yet, we need truth. ... Without truth we are blind in the world, we have no path to follow. The great gift of Christ was that He enabled us to see the face of God".Pope Benedict xvi, February 24th, 2012
The Church is ecumenical, catholic, God-human, ageless, and it is therefore a blasphemy—an unpardonable blasphemy against Christ and against the Holy Ghost—to turn the Church into a national institution, to narrow her down to petty, transient, time-bound aspirations and ways of doing things. Her purpose is beyond nationality, ecumenical, all-embracing: to unite all men in Christ, all without exception to nation or race or social strata. - St Justin Popovitch
Saturday, 30 July 2011
THOUGHTS ON PRAYER AND THE MONASTIC LIFE by Fr Thomas Merton (Fr Louis)
THE FIRST LESSON ABOUT MAN. A poem by Thomas Merton
RENUNCIATION AND CONTEMPLATION
ST BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX
MORE ON ST BERNARD
CONTEMPLATION
HOW DO WE ENTER THE HEART: Metropolitan Kallistos Ware quotes "Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander"
WHAT THE CONTEMPLATIVE HAS TO OFFER
MERTON'S COMMENTARY OF WILLIAM FAULKNER'S "WILD PSALMS" 1/6
MERTON'S COMMENTARY
COMMENTARY OF THOMAS MERTON ON wILLIAM FAULKNER'S "WILD PSALMS" 3/6
COMMENTARY OF THOMAS MERTON ON FAULKNER'S "WILD PSALMS" 4/5
MERTON;S COMMENTARY ON WILLIAM FAULKNER,S "WILD PSALMS"
MERTON;S COMMENTARY ON WILLIAM FAULKNER;S "WILD PSALMS"
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