Category: Monasticism
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Years ago, at the height of my activist years, on the verge of a second or third burnout, I stumbled across a quote from that amazing, broken, paradox-filled Trappist monk, hipster, vow-breaking, activist, poet and monastic – Father Louis – known more popularly as Thomas Merton. This is the quote: There is a pervasive form…
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This was originally posted in 2023 on the AbbeyChurch blog. For some more images of these Abbeys that I took, please see the gallery on their website here. The pretense for this trip is that I’m turning 50 in about a month. I have long been an admirer of the witness of traditional monastic communities –…