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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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KSP #83 – Project Rapture Ep. 1 – The Secret Space Program (Subscriber Colony) – Video

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A Super Bowl tailgate party in space?

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When more than 100 million people on Earth tune in for the Super Bowl kick-off this Sunday, NASA's astronauts in space will probably be sleeping.

But two the American astronauts living and working on the International Space Station are football fans, and at least one of them says he hopes to wake up in time to see the end of theSuper Bowlmatchup between the New England Patriots or the Seattle Seahawks.

"Regrettably, our bedtime, or at least my bed time is quite early," the station's commander, NASA astronaut Barry "Butch" Wilmore,said in an interview with reporters earlier this week. "But I am an early riser I look forward to at least watching the end and seeing the outcome. And I might throw something on the grill just for myself as well." [NASA Space Tech Makes the Super Bowl Possible]

"Grilling" for Wilmore probably means heating up somefreeze-dried or thermostabilized packaged food with warm water. There are no microwaves or ovens on the space station, and definitely no grills.Open flames aren't allowedinside the orbiting lab.

It's not possible for the astronauts to live on a typical day-night cycle. Their orbiting home circles Earth every 90 minutes, and they might witness up to 16 sunrises and sunsets each day. They live on Greenwich Mean Time, or GMT, and the 6:30 p.m. EST kick-off time actually occurs about two hours after the start of their bedtime, said NASA spokesman Dan Huot. If astronauts are awake, the game will be uplinked to them live.

"Not clear on who they will be rooting for," Huot said in an email. "Wilmore is from Tennessee and a big Titans fan and Virts has been wearing his Texans gear lately."

Virts posted a picture of himself on Twitter last week sporting a J.J. Watt Houston Texans shirt while looking down at Earth from the space station's cupola. The Texans didn't make it to the playoffs this year. Nonetheless, Virts wrote that Watt is "the best football player on Earth."

Wilmore isn't just a football fan; he's also a former college football star. He was a linebacker for Tennessee Tech's Golden Eagles. With 143 tackles, he ranks third on the team's all-time tackles list, and he was inducted into the school's "Sports Hall of Fame" in 2003.

Virts joked during this week's interview that it's "probably safe to say" that Wilmore is the best football player in space. But Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, of the European Space Agency, "is the greatest European football player, as we call soccer, on the station."

Wilmore, Virts and Cristoforetti are currently living on the$100-billion space stationwith three Russian cosmonauts, Elena Serova, Alexander Samoukutyaevand Anton Shkaplerov. Wilmore, Serova and Samoukutyaev are scheduled to come back to Earth in March. They'll be replaced by the next three crewmembers as part of a rotating system of that has kept the space station continuously occupied since 2000.

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The Margin: What monster storm Juno looked like from space

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Many in the Northeast are still cleaning up and scraping away Winter Storm Juno, which brought 3 feet of snow in some parts of New England, wind gusts as high as 78 mph and severe flooding in coastal areas.

Images and time-lapse videos of the blizzard flooded social media earlier this week, but one NASA astronaut proved that the best view of a monster storm is always from space. Astronaut Terry W. Virts had a stunning view of Juno, tweeting photos and a video of the storm from the international space station as it hammered Massachusetts.

The blizzard looks like a hurricane, Virts tweeted as the storm approached the eastern tip Boston.

Heres what Juno looked like near peak intensity early Tuesday via the Suomi National Polar-orbiting satellite, operated by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Some of the clouds over the sea were also generating lightning, according to the Weather Channel.

This image shows the storm in its organizing stage along the East Coast. Blizzard conditions were intact for 14 straight hours in Marshfield, Mass., the Weather Channel said.

Astronaut Sam Cristoforetti from the European Space Agency offered another striking viewpoint of Earth from space, tweeting this photo on Wednesday.

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