The springs of contemplation : a retreat at the Abbey of Gethsemani

Thomas Merton ; foreword by Kathleen Norris
Notre Dame, Ind : Ave Maria Press, 1997
207 p. ; 21 cm.
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  • Part One. Abbey of Gethsemani, December 1967
  • Presence, silence, communication
  • Changing forms of contemplative commitment
  • Responsibility in a community of love
  • Vocation: "the time when you were called"
  • Contemporary prophetic choices
  • Respect for each person, diversity in community
  • Honesty in choosing life, union with God
  • Part Two. Abbey of Gethsemani, May 1968
  • Contemplative life as prophetic vocation
  • Prophecy, alienation, language
  • The feminine mystique
  • Zen: a way of living life directly
  • Asceticism and results
  • Acting in freedom and obedience
  • Collaboration, penance, celibacy
  • Community: the place where Christ is acting
  • Contemplative reality and the living Christ
  • Appendix: Loretto and Gethsemani.
  • Introduction by Sister Mary Luke Tobin; editor's note by Sister Jane Marie Richardson.
  • Originally published: New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, c1992.
  • Ave Maria Press
  • 087793598X (pbk)
  • 9780877935988 (pbk)
  • text
  • volume
  • unmediated
  • https://cms.trccloud.hk/opac/bib/AFnW