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Learning Everything That Is, Is Holy with Thomas Merton

Posted on April 13, 2021November 4, 2021 by Aidan McDermott

We do not detach ourselves from things in order to attach ourselves to God, but rather we become detached from ourselves in order to see and use all things in and for God (New Seeds, 21). In chapter four in New Seeds of Contemplation, Thomas ...
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Learning to be Alone

Posted on February 4, 2021November 4, 2021 by Aidan McDermott

The truest solitude is not something outside you, not an absence of men or of sound around you; it is an abyss opening up in the center of your own soul. (New Seeds, 80) In Ch. 11 of New Seeds of Contemplation, Thomas Merton offers a ri...
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Thomas Merton on Integrity in the Search for the Self

Posted on December 20, 2020November 4, 2021 by Aidan McDermott

We hear from the Gospel for Gaudete Sunday Year B; the account of John the Baptist declaring his mission of salvation. In the Gospel, John the Baptist is interrogated by the chief priests and Levites. They ask John the Baptist who he i...
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Thomas Merton on the Unity of All Things in the Love of Christ

Posted on December 1, 2020November 4, 2021 by Aidan McDermott

A man cannot enter into the deepest center of himself and pass through that center into God, unless he is able to pass entirely out of himself and empty himself and give himself to other people in purity of a selfless love (New Seeds of Contempl...
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Seeing God in All Things with Thomas Merton

Posted on November 16, 2020November 4, 2021 by Aidan McDermott

Father M. Louis, OCSO better known as Thomas Merton, was a monk of Our Lady of Gethsemani Abbey near Bardstown, Kentucky. He is one of the most popular and influential writers and mystics of the twentieth century. Thomas Merton was born in south...
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