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  • LITURGICAL FEASTS AND SEASONS
    THOMAS MERTON
    This critical edition makes available for the first time Thomas Merton's novitiate conferences on liturgy. Though dating from the period just before the liturgical reforms of Vatican II, Merton's commentaries remain pertinent for their insights on his own commitment to this central dimension of Christian life, on his work introducing students to the patterns that would mark the...

    $1,047.00

  • NOTES ON GENESIS AND EXODUS
    THOMAS MERTON
    Among the numerous sets of conferences that Thomas Merton presented during his decade (1955-1965) as novice master at the Cistercian Abbey of Gethsemani are the two courses included in the present volume, a thorough examination of the book of Genesis that began in mid-1956 and concluded on the Feast of Pentecost, 1957, and a considerably less detailed series of classes on the b...

    $727.00

  • A MONASTIC INTRODUCTION TO SACRED SCRIPTURE
    THOMAS MERTON
    Among the numerous sets of conferences that Thomas Merton presented to young prospective monks during his decade (1955-1965) as novice master at the Cistercian Abbey of Gethsemani is a wide-ranging introduction to biblical studies, made available for the first time in the present volume. Drawing on church tradition, teaching of recent papal documents, and scholarly resources of...

    $550.00

  • THE SIGN OF JONAS
    THOMAS MERTON
    This diary of a monastic life is "a continuation of The Seven Storey Mountain . . . Astonishing" ( Commonweal).   Chronicling six years of Thomas Merton's life in a Trappist monastery, The Sign of Jonas takes us through his day-to-day experiences at the Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani, where he lived in silence and prayer for much of his life.   Concluding with the account of M...

    $249.00

  • THE LAST OF THE FATHERS
    THOMAS MERTON
    A contextual portrait of St. Bernard of Clairvaux, along with Pope Pius XII's encyclical letter on the Doctor of the Church. Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, a dominant figure in the history of the Catholic Church and the last of the Church Fathers, died in his monastery in Burgundy on August 20, 1153. In commemoration of the eighth centenary of his death, Pope Pius XII issued one o...

    $159.00

  • THE NONVIOLENT ALTERNATIVE
    THOMAS MERTON
    From the Trappist monk and author of The Seven Storey Mountain, reflections on the way to moral and social change in a violent world. The writings in this work were precipitated by a variety of events during the last decades of Thomas Merton's life—the civil rights and peace movements of the 1960s among them. His timeless moral integrity and tireless concern for nonviolent solu...

    $274.00

  • SEASONS OF CELEBRATION
    THOMAS MERTON
    The renowned author and Catholic monk presents a timeless exploration of the liturgical year, its celebrations, and its meanings. The reforms of the Second Vatican Council of 1962-65 included a profound liturgical renewal. Inspired by those changes, Thomas Merton offered this volume, first published in 1965—a fresh contemplation of the seasons and holidays, and how they enrich ...

    $251.00

  • THE ASCENT TO TRUTH
    THOMAS MERTON
    The author of The Seven Storey Mountain explores the mysticism of Saint John of the Cross. The only thing that can save the world from complete moral collapse is a spiritual revolution. . . . The desire for unworldliness, detachment, and union with God is the most fundamental expression of this revolutionary spirit.   In Ascent to Truth, author and Trappist Monk Thomas Merton m...

    $249.00

  • NO MAN IS AN ISLAND
    THOMAS MERTON
    The classic collection of essays for those seeking spiritual wisdom from the religious scholar, Trappist monk, and author of The Seven Storey Mountain.   A recapitulation of his earlier work Seeds of Contemplation, this collection of sixteen essays plumbs aspects of human spirituality. Merton addresses those in search of enduring values, fulfillment, and salvation in prose that...

    $229.00

  • SURVIVAL OR PROPHECY?
    THOMAS MERTON / JEAN LECLERCQ
    Introduction by Archbishop Rembert G. Weakland. Two monks in conversation about the meaning of life and the nature of solitude. Thomas Merton, the American Trappist monk who wrote The Seven Storey Mountain, spent his entire literary career (1948- 68) in a cloistered monastery in Kentucky. His great counterpart, the French Benedictine monk Jean Leclercq, spent those years travel...

    $251.00

  • MYSTICS AND ZEN MASTERS
    THOMAS MERTON
    Thomas Merton was recognized as one of those rare Western minds that are entirely at home with the Zen experience. In this collection, he discusses diverse religious concepts-early monasticism, Russian Orthodox spirituality, the Shakers, and Zen Buddhism-with characteristic Western directness. Merton not only studied these religions from the outside but grasped them by empathy ...

    $274.00

  • THE ROAD TO JOY
    THOMAS MERTON
    The second volume of Thomas Merton's letters is devoted to his correspondence with friends -- relatives and family friends, longtime friends, special friends, young people he regarded as new friends, and circular letters addressed to groups of friends. They range from 1931, ten years before he became a monk, to 1968, the year in which he died at a monastic conference in Thailan...

    $251.00

  • THE WATERS OF SILOE
    THOMAS MERTON
    From the author of The Seven Storey Mountain, this book looks at an order of Catholic monks dating back to eleventh-century France. "The word 'Trappist' has become synonymous with 'ascetic' and definitely indicates a monk who leads a very hard life. But . . . Penance and asceticism are not ends in themselves. If monks never succeeded in being more than pious athletes, they do n...

    $229.00

  • PALABRAS CON THOMAS MERTON
    MERTON, THOMAS
    Agotado

    $60.00