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As Thomas Merton Turns 100, a Look at His 'Franciscan Heart'

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Author Speaks on Trappist's Continuing Relevance Washington, D.C., January 30, 2015 (Zenit.org) Kathleen Naab | 555 hits

Author and monk Thomas Merton would have turned 100 years old on Saturday. He continues to be considered a leading Catholic thinker of the modern Church, on themes ranging from spirituality and prayer to social issues.

A new book published by Ave Maria Press considers the Franciscan heart of Thomas Merton.

ZENIT spoke with its author, Franciscan Father Daniel Horan, about his insights into this element of Mertons spirituality.

ZENIT:Who was Thomas Merton?

Father Horan: Thomas Merton was an American Trappist Monk and best-selling author who wrote about topics ranging from contemplation and Christian spirituality, to interreligious and ecumenical dialogue, to topics related to social concerns including civil rights, racism, and violence. He died very suddenly in December 1968, but would have turned 100 years old on Saturday, Jan. 31, 2015!

ZENIT:What is his relevance today?

Father Horan: Many of the themes that Merton addressed in his writing continue, unfortunately, to be relevant today: war, violence, injustice, and religious intolerance, among others. His insight, always deeply rooted in the Christian vocation to follow the Gospel, has great potential to speak to the experiences of women and men living in 2015.

For example, in an age shaped so dramatically by threats of terror and violence, oftentimes associated with religion, Mertons lived example of dialogue and genuine quest to understand others offers us a model for living in a pluralistic world. Additionally, at a time in which we are constantly seeking to understand who we are in a rapid-paced digital world, Mertons call to contemplation so as to discover our True Selves in discovering God is a very important and counter-cultural invitation.

ZENIT:How would you recommend someone "getting to know" Merton?

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Thomas Merton still strikes a chord when new readers find him

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Thomas Merton -- orphaned at 6 and at 15 by the deaths of his parents -- harbored a premonition of his end some five years before he was electrocuted by a faulty fan in his hotel room in Bangkok in 1968. He was only 53. The world can only wonder what he may have become had he lived to a ripe old age.

Many will mark the centenary of Merton's birth on Jan. 31 just as dozens commemorate each year his Catholic baptism at Corpus Christi Church in New York on Nov. 16, 1938. The parish has long served as a campus ministry site for students attending Columbia University, where Merton studied and taught from 1935 to 1940.

Had he not died in 1968, America's most famous monk, mystic and hermit might have produced more books, poems, photos and calligraphy. Or might he have renounced the fame he did not seek, but rarely avoided, for a more perfect solitude? We shall never know.

Merton wrote some 50 books during the 27 years he lived the discipline of the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance, better known as the Trappists. Although he intended to stop writing after entering the Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani in rural Kentucky in 1941, Abbot Frederic Dunne assigned him to produce certain monastic works, later approving Merton's request to author an autobiography.

"You have no idea how busy a Trappist can get," Merton wrote to his friend James Laughlin, publisher and poet, in 1947. Not much later, another Columbia friend, Robert Giroux, launched The Seven Storey Mountain. Within months, Merton's story of his retreat from the world sold 600,000 copies in hardcover, surpassing a million copies shortly after its paperback release.

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How I Use Spirituality to Eliminate Heart Problems and Back Problems! – Video

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How I Use Spirituality to Eliminate Heart Problems and Back Problems!
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Spirituality program offered in Morris Township by Voice of the Faithful

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MORRIS TWP. Voice of the Faithful New Jersey will present a discussion of Father Richard Rohrs book, Falling Upward, Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life, at 3:30 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 15, at St. Mark Lutheran Church, 100 Harter Road.

In this book Father Richard Rohr offers a new paradigm for understanding one of lifes most profound mysteries: how our failings can be the foundation for our ongoing spiritual growth.

Drawing on the wisdom of time-honored myths, heroic poems, great thinkers and sacred religious texts, he explores the two halves of life to show that those who have fallen, failed or gone down are the only ones who understand up. We grow spiritually more by doing it wrong than by doing it right. Rohr takes a journey to give an understanding of how the heartbreaks, disappointments and weaknesses of life can actually be stepping stones to the spiritual joys that the second half of life has in store for us.

In my opinion, this first-half-of-life task is no more than finding the starting gate, he writes. It is merely the warm-up act, not the full journey. It is the raft but not the shore. If you realize that there is a further journey, you might do the warm-up act quite differently, which would better prepare you for what follows. People at any age must know about the whole arc of their life and where it is tending and leading.

A Franciscan priest of the New Mexico Province, Father Rohr founded the Center for Action and Contemplation in Albuquerque, N.M., in 1986. He is the author of more than 20 books, translated into many languages. An internationally known speaker, he is also well known for his numerous recorded teachings, through the centers quarterly publication, Radical Grace, and is a regular contributing writer for Sojourners and Tikkun magazines. He uses many platforms in teaching on such themes as adult Christian spirituality, scripture as liberation, male spirituality, politics and spirituality, nature, and interfaith dialogue.

All are welcome. Liturgy will follow. There is no charge for the program.

For more information go to http://www.votfnj.org, email info@votfnj.org or call 973-538-4063.

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Prashant Tripathi: Spirituality is not the renunciation of life; it is the art of living fully – Video

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01 25 15, "Overcoming the Corporate Structure of Spirituality! with Rev Charlotte McGinnis – Video

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01 25 15, "Overcoming the Corporate Structure of Spirituality! with Rev Charlotte McGinnis
Who is creating your spiritual story? Rev. Charlotte McGinnis takes us down a path of awareness and shows us how to let go of the thinking that stands in the way of the glorious results we...

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