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Your director for this retreat,Becoming Who We Are, is Trappist monk and writer Thomas Merton. The theme of this retreat is the spiritual journey of Thomas Merton and its relationship to our own era... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0867162295
ISBN13:9780867162295
Release Date:January 1996
Publisher:Franciscan Media
Length:112 Pages
Weight:0.36 lbs.
Dimensions:0.1" x 5.3" x 8.2"
Customer Reviews
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Uncommonly intelligent spirituality
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
Padovano remarks early in this book that "biography is spirituality," and uses Merton's life to guide us back to what is sacred in our own normal lives. Indeed, for Padovano and Merton, the search for spirituality is nothing less than the pursuit of being perfectly normal--or as Padovano might say, being normal, perfectly.
Insightful glimpse into Merton's thoughts
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
This small book has much to offer. Padovano's insight into Merton's "Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander" is especially compelling, as it should be, coming from a writer who has himself chosen not to be a bystander but instead to aspire to being perfectly normal, or rather--as Padovano might say--being normal, perfectly.Also, Padovano's writing, here and elsewhere, offers a much needed antidote to all the goofiness that parades itself as "spiritual" or "metaphysical" in contemp culture. As Padovano says of Merton's own writing, "spirituality is biography."
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