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The name was taken from Thomas Merton's description of contemplative prayer, from which Centering Prayer draws, as prayer that is "centered entirely on the presence of God". [ web 1 ] In his book Contemplative Prayer , Merton writes "Monastic prayer begins not so much with 'considerations' as with a 'return to the heart,' finding one's deepest ...
The Thomas Merton Award, a peace prize, has been awarded since 1972 by the Thomas Merton Center for Peace and Social Justice in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. [55] The 2015, in tribute to the centennial year of Merton's birth, The Festival of Faiths in Louisville Kentucky honored his life and work with Sacred Journey’s the Legacy of Thomas Merton ...
Thomas Merton's hermitage (interior) at the Abbey of Gethsemani Below is a bibliography of published works written by Thomas Merton , the Trappist monk of The Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani . Several of the works listed here have been published posthumously.
Thomas Merton characterized the goal of Christian meditation as follows: "The true end of Christian meditation is practically the same as the end of liturgical prayer and the reception of the sacraments: a deeper union by grace and charity with the Incarnate Word, who is the only Mediator between God and man, Jesus Christ."
A Book of Hours: At Prayer with Thomas Merton. Schola Ministries. ASIN B002J04NYI. Finley, James (2002). Thomas Merton's Path to the Palace of Nowhere: The Essential Guide to the Contemplative Teachings of Thomas Merton. Sounds True. ISBN 1-56455-938-6. OCLC 49631328. Hogan, Christine Jensen (1994). The Contemplative, the Artist, and the Child ...
Paul Prather: Brother Paul Quenon of the Abbey of Gethsemani will take part in the Kentucky Book Festival on Nov. 2, talking about his latest book “A Matter of the Heart: A Monk’s Journal 1970 ...
The Seven Storey Mountain is the 1948 autobiography of Thomas Merton, an American Trappist monk and priest who was a noted author in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. Merton finished the book in 1946 at the age of 31, five years after entering Gethsemani Abbey near Bardstown, Kentucky.
In particular, The Cloud has influenced recent contemplative prayer practices. The practical prayer advice contained in The Cloud of Unknowing forms a primary basis for the contemporary practice of Centering Prayer, a form of Christian meditation developed by Trappist monks William Meninger, Basil Pennington and Thomas Keating in the 1970s. [20]