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Thomas Merton on work
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jmcgee
I’m reading Thomas Merton’s “New Seeds of Contemplation,” and it seems like every page has a glistening pearl, waiting to be discovered. This caught my eye the other day, and it seems apt for Labor Day: “The requirements of a work to be done can be understood as the will of God. If I am…
“The spiritual gateway” of Georgia looks to the future
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jmcgee
Some months back, I posted on the capital campaign underway at the Trappist Monastery of the Holy Spirit down in Georgia. Now this development has made the local news. Take a look: Father Methodius Telnack has lived on the grounds of the Monastery of the Holy Spirit in Conyers for 61 years. When he first…
The lesson of trees
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jmcgee
A tree gives glory to God by being a tree. For in being what God means it to be it is obeying God. It “consents,” so to speak, to God’s creative love. It is expressing an idea which is in God and which is not distinct from the essence of God, and therefore a tree…
“A warm wind of love showed up at my ordination”
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jmcgee
I stumbled on this tonight, and thought: “Must post.” I think there’s more than a little Merton in this gorgeous reflection by a new Episcopal deacon, describing his ordination: One by one they came forward and one by one I began to see the vast connected network of the body of Christ. I loved them,…
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