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Thomas Merton’s Last Three Days December 10, 2019

This is an extract from the revised edition of Living With Wisdom, a biography of Thomas Merton written by Jim Forest and published by Orbis Books. Footnotes have been removed. On December 8, the Feast of the Immaculate Conception. Merton made his last journal entry. He was off to say Mass at the Church of […]

Lord, that I might see: talk at the bishops’ peace dinner November 30, 2019

Bishops’ Peace Dinner text / 26 November 2019 / an annual event held in Baltimore and sponsored by the Catholic Peace Fellowship By Jim Forest Images referred to are in this album:https://www.flickr.com/photos/jimforest/albums/72157711100733001 [air view of the Abbey of Gethsemani]One of the significant events of my life was being a participant in a retreat on the […]

Thomas Merton on Compassion and peacemaking November 18, 2019

A basic question for those involved in planning protest actions is how to reach and change the minds of those who feel accused, judged and condemned by the protest and react defensively and even angrily if not violently. It was a topic that Thomas Merton wrote to me about of several occasions in the sixties. […]

St Francis and the Seventh Beatitude October 4, 2019

by Jim Forest “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God.” — Matthew 5:9 No saint has been more identified with the beatitude of peacemaking than Saint Francis of Assisi. The most famous prayer for peace, echoing the seventh beatitude, is attributed to him: “Lord, make me an instrument of your […]