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#001 Cassian: Trials & Belief   Merton, Thomas   (Tapes #1 through #114 are Merton himself speaking to the novices when he was novice master at the Abbey of Gethsemani.) In this tape Merton contrasts the contemporary concern for power with Cassian's concern for balance. With balance comes the light in our depths to make spiritual choices.   Cassette
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#002 Faith & Prayer   Merton, Thomas   We are able to see what is true because we believe it. Believing is seeing. After treating some obstacles to prayer, Merton talks eloquently of meditation.   Cassette
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#004 Our Father: Perfect Prayer   Merton, Thomas   "Life's goal is to return to the Father's house." Merton talks about how contemplative prayer relates to the monastic life. He concludes by treating why we glorify God with praise.   Cassette
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#005 Does God Hear Our Prayer   Merton, Thomas   Merton says, the real problem is to know when you are praying. Using practical advice from the early desert fathers, Merton explains why prayer must sum up our personal stance.   CD
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#006 Prayer & the Active Life   Merton, Thomas   For the person of prayer, affirmation of the self and its work and importance is done by God, not by me. He affirms my real self, not my own image or my superficial desires.   Cassette
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#007 Renunciation & Contemplation   Merton, Thomas   Merton defends the contemplative vocation with an attack on rationalism. He describes how the old monks gave non-rationalist advice and lists the three categories of things we must renounce.   Cassette
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#009 Beauty is from God   Merton, Thomas   Merton relates art and its pleasure to the full human life and the contemplative vision of this life in Christ.   Cassette
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#012 Love & the Search for God   Merton, Thomas   Merton describes Rilke's natural contemplation and shows its beauty. He explains how Rilke came to the search for God through the means of contemplation of the ordinary.   Cassette
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#013 The Bear   Merton, Thomas   Merton at his poetic/mystical finest exulting in the literary genius of Faulkner. He shows the developmental stages of the mystical life in the unfolding of the story of the Bear.   Cassette
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#016 Clement of Alexandria/Origen   Merton, Thomas   Clement and Origen were great theologians and mystics, but Merton sees them also as great teachers. Clement embraced the humanist learning of his time and gave us Christian humanism. Origen, a towering intellect, said our first task is to know ourselves as God made us.   Cassette
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#017 Monastic Spirituality/Citeaux   Merton, Thomas   Merton talks about the beginning of the Cistercians as a monastic order. He explains the key elements of a monk's spirituality, especially the inner heart of poverty and the longing for God.   Cassette
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#018 Monastic Spirituality, Part II   Merton, Thomas   Merton contrasts the way of life and the way of death in the Didache. He says that the spiritual life is like being suddenly transported to a foreign land where we can only say, "God, you put me here, help me live here."   Cassette
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#019 Meaning of Monastic Spirituality   Merton, Thomas   Merton speaks of the inner pull of God. When we pay loving attention to God, we are drawn towards him. As we are drawn toward God, we are drawn together within ourselves and with others. All things become cohesive. Our life has meaning and a purpose.   Cassette
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#020 The Holy Rule   Merton, Thomas   Merton sees the importance of humility as the formation of conscience that prevents us from pushing ourselves on others. It is the beginning of charity.   Cassette
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#021 Conversion   Merton, Thomas   Conversion is not just "being good" or even growing in maturity. It is more specific and dynamic. It is the process of growing in awareness of the presence of God and responding to it.   Cassette
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#025 The Vow of Poverty   Merton, Thomas   Merton gives young monks concrete practical considerations of the vow of poverty. The spirit of poverty is rooted in the realization that everything is given to us by God, so we must give to others.   Cassette
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#026 The Sins Against Poverty   Merton, Thomas   The desire to own, to control and to assert our own dominion is subtle and pervasive. We love to possess things "just because they are there." Merton gets delightfully specific in discussing this tendency.   Cassette
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#028 Solitude: Breaking the Heart   Merton, Thomas   In these memorable talks, Merton explains his decision to become a hermit. In the process he articulates a profound theology of solitude and prayer.   Cassette
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#029 Solitude and Resurrection   Merton, Thomas   Merton loved solitude, not just to be alone, but to try to immerse himself in the mystery of the resurrection. He says that solitude is to realize and witness to the power of the resurrection of Christ.   Cassette
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#030 The Religious Meaning of Chastity   Merton, Thomas   Merton assumes the goodness of sex and the renunciation of sexual pleasure, but goes beyond that and discusses the call of integrity--the part of you which you cannot surrender and must guard.   Cassette
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#031 Authentic Friendship   Merton, Thomas   Friendship maintains the balance of independence and intimacy. Merton describes the characteristics of real friendship and contrasts it with manipulative behavior.   CD
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#032 The Uses of Chastity   Merton, Thomas   Merton after declaring the positive dimension of Chastity relates chastity to the Cross, to grace, to simplicity and above all to love and community.   Cassette
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#033 The Symbolism of Chastity   Merton, Thomas   Merton sees the struggle to be chaste as the struggle to be obedient to God acted out in our body. This struggle is positive, a source of grace and a reminder of our sinful state, of who we are and who we are called to be.   Cassette
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#034 Love Casts out Fear   Merton, Thomas   Merton discusses the theology of love of St. Bernard. Perfect love does not make us tough, it aligns us with the will of God. Our life's work is to get fear out of our lives.   Cassette
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#036 Pure Love   Merton, Thomas   At the heart of the Cistercian way of life is the search to purify love. Merton explains St Bernard's concept of pure love and why it is important. It is a surprisingly practical doctrine.   Cassette
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#038 The Virgin Mary   Merton, Thomas   He begins with the lavish praise of St. Bernard for the Blessed Virgin, then discusses her role in contemporary piety.   Cassette
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#039 Silence   Merton, Thomas   Silence is our admission that we have broken communication with God and are now willing to listen. It has many human values, but exists primarily to enable you to worship.   Cassette
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#041 Communism vs. Capitalism   Merton, Thomas   Merton discusses a prominent Czech protestant theologian who says that religion suffers about the same under capitalism as it does under communism. Christianity that is merely anti-something else is not good enough and not truly Christian.   Cassette
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#044 The Vow of Conversion   Merton, Thomas   Change your life, even your lifestyle. Stop being the person in the world you were. Instead, live depending on the cross, the gospel--not on the norms of society. The vow of conversion is to do whatever is needed to become a person of prayer.   Cassette
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#045 Conversion in Christ   Merton, Thomas   Conversion is being incorporated into the mystery of Christ. It is not just trying harder; it is relying on the power of God in Christ.   Cassette
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#046 Becoming Our True Self   Merton, Thomas   The grace of Christ restores our true nature. We don't merely seek individual perfection, we strive to perfect the body of Christ. We are perfect only in union with Christ.   Cassette
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#047 Permanent Conversion of God   Merton, Thomas   Our conversion may take many forms, but it is always irrevocable. God is our center. To embrace conversion is not to make life easier, but to reflect God as the center.   Cassette
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#048 The Patience of Conversion   Merton, Thomas   Patience is our way of participating in the passion of Christ. If we truly love God, then we can let go of anything that blocks that love--but not all at once.   Cassette
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#049 The Commitment of Conversion   Merton, Thomas   The energy of conversion comes from openness to the Spirit. Mary is one model. Our commitment is to stay open to the Spirit, no matter what. This is the deep meaning of obedience--our willingness to nourish the process of conversion.   Cassette
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#050 Spirituality of the Our Father   Merton, Thomas   A commentary on the spirituality of the Our Father that Merton draws from the Church Fathers, especially Tertullian and Cassian.   Cassette
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#051 Prayer & Self-Growth   Merton, Thomas   We must begin prayer with the self; we must also transcend the self. Merton also deals with distractions in prayer and the relationship of meditation and experience.   Cassette
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#053 Prayer: The Search for Inner Rest   Merton, Thomas   Merton explains that the purpose of prayer is to allow God to rest in our hearts while we rest in Him. He goes on to explain the Jesus Prayer.   Cassette
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#054 The Paradox of Joy and Sorrow   Merton, Thomas   Sorrow and joy are intimately and paradoxically joined. If we accept sorrow, we can find true joy, based on what is real. Merton explains that asceticism is breaking the barriers between us and what is real, between us and God.   Cassette
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#056 Sufism: Knowledge of God   Merton, Thomas   Merton explains the two complimentary Sufi ways of knowing God that must be kept in tension: God as invisible and beyond knowledge, and God as manifested in everything.   Cassette
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#057 Sufism: The Desire for God   Merton, Thomas   Merton addresses the Sufi paradox that we are totally penetrated by God's knowledge of us, yet God is totally other. God is at the root of my personality, yet I feel filled with longing for what I already have.   Cassette
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#058 The True and False Self   Merton, Thomas   Our cross is to let our false self die so our true self can emerge. Merton explains Martin Buber's concept of inner identity and the Tree of Life, then shows that a purely individual approach to our true self is inadequate.   Cassette
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#059 The Irish Tradition of Mysticism   Merton, Thomas   Merton speaks on how the Irish interpreted monastic contemplation in terms of exile and pilgrimage as ways of martyrdom. On side two he also comments on the death of Martin Luther King.   Cassette
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#060 Poetry of Revelation   Merton, Thomas   Beginning with the mystical poetry of Blake, Merton discusses the true nature of revelation. The force & light of God makes us see everything differently.   Cassette
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#061 Poetry of Paradise   Merton, Thomas   Examines the mystical poetry of Blake & Auden and how poetry can lead us into a world of spiritual reality and union with God.   Cassette
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#062 Mary: Light and Temple   Merton, Thomas   Two sermons of Merton's on the Feast of the Immaculate Conception & the Presentation.   Cassette
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#063 Community and Transformation   Merton, Thomas   Discussion of some of the major figures of Greek tragedy and their deep spiritual concerns.   Cassette
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#065 Religious Principals of Greek Tragedy   Merton, Thomas   Merton explains the religious background of what are often assumed to be "secular" tragedies. Old Testament parallels underscore the evil of military pride.   Cassette
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#066 The Heart Alive with Love   Merton, Thomas   Merton explains the centrality of the heart in religious belief, both in Christian and in Sufi traditions.   Cassette
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#067 Religious Intuition   Merton, Thomas   A refreshing approach to the existence of God, the intuition in all people, even those in the Greek tragedies.   Cassette
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#068 Community & the Christian Life   Merton, Thomas   Merton discusses St. Basil and his search for Christian community as well as how we naturally know God.   Cassette
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#071 Sanctity   Merton, Thomas   Merton's Catholic belief is that sanctity is the work of the Holy Spirit acting in us. Life is more complex than just being good.   Cassette
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#072 Developing a Conscience   Merton, Thomas   Drawing on St. Thomas, Merton explains why social and personal conformism goes against the grace of God. He then shows how development of conscience increases our own self-respect.   Cassette
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#073 Justice for All of Creation   Merton, Thomas   Merton draws on St Thomas's notion that justice is a type of reverence and requires respect for whatever is good.   Cassette
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#074 Lyric Poetry   Merton, Thomas   Merton reads and explains some of his favorite lyric poems.   Cassette
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#076 The Way of St. Basil   Merton, Thomas   Basil's examination of conscience and its rewards are discussed on side one. Side two explores the role of angels in our search for perfection.   Cassette
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#077 St. Anselm: Reasonable Faith   Merton, Thomas   Merton explores the creative theology of Anselm's period and shows how he demonstrated the existence of God by the persistent use of reason.   Cassette
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#078 Created for Love   Merton, Thomas   Bernard and Merton's mystical theology. We seek God because we have found him--the desire to seek him is already the love of God working in us.   Cassette
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#079 In the Arms of God   Merton, Thomas   Barnard says we must do the will of God. God will take care of the results. A lovely non-fundamentalist view of the will of God.   Cassette
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#080 Abelard's Loving Criticism   Merton, Thomas   Abelard insisted on critical thinking, even about Patristic writings. He insisted all Christians understand what they were being asked to believe.   Cassette
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#081 The Thirst For God   Merton, Thomas   The greatest reality in life is our desire for God, because we come from God. Our desire can be distorted, but we can know Him if we purify our hearts.   CD
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#083 The Straight Way   Merton, Thomas   To search for God, we begin by accepting what is real, not passively but through prayer and discernment. Merton makes use of insights from the Koran.   Cassette
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#085 True Freedom   Merton, Thomas   The purpose of self-denial is freedom. Asceticism frees us from compulsion so we can respond to reality with our whole self. Asceticism wakes us up so we can face reality to respond fully.   Cassette
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#088 Poverty: The Vocation of Work   Merton, Thomas   Hard work is a gift from God. We are born to move from work to gratitude and then finally to charity.   Cassette
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#090 T. S. Eliot   Merton, Thomas   Merton discusses the poetry of Eliot, especially Eliot's search for the meaning of life, for contemplation and history.   Cassette
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#091 Surrender to God   Merton, Thomas   Merton explains what it means to let go of a self-centered life and to try and live a life surrendered to God. His teaching on the humility involved is brilliant.   Cassette
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#092 Poetry and Scripture   Merton, Thomas   While reading William Blake and John Dunne, Merton explains that poetic insight is needed to understand scripture. That is why we study the church fathers--because they understood scriptures poetically.   Cassette
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#093 The Fully Human Being   Merton, Thomas   Merton begins with Greek tragedy and then moves to Confucius as he describes what it is that makes a person fully human.   Cassette
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#094 Love is Enough   Merton, Thomas   Rest is freedom from desire and fear. So is contemplation. The vocation of contemplation and the calling to be free from the compulsions of desire and fear are discussed. Only when that freedom is reached can the Christian really love.   Cassette
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#095 Poetry, The Angelic Realm   Merton, Thomas   Merton explains the difference between poetry and prose and why poetry is so important to the students of scriptures. He gives a traditional cosmic theology of angels that puts cute TV shows to shame.   Cassette
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#096 Awakening the Heart   Merton, Thomas   Drawing on Sufi masters and St. Bernard Merton explains the importance of the limits of knowledge about God. What is important in both traditions is the more direct knowledge of God which comes through love. He shares some of the techniques contemplatives have traditionally used to cultivate this more direct knowledge.   Cassette
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#097 Facing the Truth of Life   Merton, Thomas   Merton uses Greek tragedy and Sufi philosophy to talk about two sides of the same problem: death.   Cassette
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#098 Seeking and Finding God   Merton, Thomas   Merton articulates the paradoxical truth that we seek God because we have found God. He also gives a brief theology of grace and contrasts Catholic & Reformation views on grace. He then gives St. Bernard's view on what is required in loving God.   Cassette
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#099 The Door of Paradise   Merton, Thomas   Merton loves the symbolic theology of the Syrian theologians, and St. Ephrem's theology of Paradies delights him. He explains portions of the spiritual life using the symbols of Paradise.   Cassette
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#100 The Contemplative Call   Merton, Thomas   Vocation is a tainted word in many places in today's church, but Merton's breadth and his passion for the contemplative life brings the venerable tradition into focus for modern faithful.   Cassette
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#101 The Desert God   Merton, Thomas   Merton loved the desert as a symbol and experience of monastic life, a place to hear the spirit. He grows eloquent as he talks about our need for silence, solitude and prayer and how this is integrated into the liturgy.   Cassette
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#102 Love and Purity of Heart   Merton, Thomas   Merton explains why St Bernard is so important in our tradition. He relates the virtue of love to the inner dynamics of the Trinity. His final contrast with Jean Paul Sartre is delightful.   Cassette
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#103 Poverty and Religious Experience   Merton, Thomas   Merton speaks about the Sufi notion of poverty as well as his own tradition. Both traditions consider poverty not in itself but for the sake of clarity about our relationship with God.   Cassette
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#105 Prayer and the Yoke of Christ   Merton, Thomas   Merton is at his best when dealing with paradox. Here he shares the importance & the possibility of a burden being light as well as heavy. He also talks about the reality and centrality of prayer.   Cassette
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#106 Chinese Thought and the Chinese Symbol of Chung   Merton, Thomas   Citing Greek tragedies and the teaching of Confucius, Merton explores the development of the human being and, ultimately, the Christian. (Previously published as side one of #93 The Fully Human Being.) He next addresses existentialism, again using Greek tragedies--in this case as examples of the intuition of God present in all people. (Previously published as side one of #67 Religious Intuition.)   Cassette
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#108 The Jesus Prayer   Merton, Thomas   The prayer of Jesus is a prayer of the heart. There is power in the name of Jesus, and this mantra gives us access to the Holy Spirit. Merton then compares Jesus to the Indian gurus. We can follow our Divine Master as the Hindus do their human masters. (Side one previously published as #53 Prayer: The Search for Inner Rest.)   Cassette
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#109 De Conversione (two cassettes)   Merton, Thomas   Merton first gives us background information on the secular, psychological atmosphere of the 12th century for a fuller understanding of St. Bernard. He then discusses Bernard's views on the subject of curiosity and the will. There is a place of rest, a garden of paradise. Once the will realizes this, there is conversion.   Cassette
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#110 The Church Fathers   Merton, Thomas   Merton says there is a certain group of Church Fathers whose "wonderful material has grace in it". He explains that Tertullian was the greatest Latin writer at the beginning of the third century and highly recommends his writings on prayer, patience, and the martyrs. On side two he compares Tertullian and Cassian's teachings on The Lord's Prayer.   Cassette
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#111 Early Christian Apologists   Merton, Thomas   To understand the apologists we must first realize that before all else we are a church of martyrs, and it was the role of the apologists to persuade the pagans that there was no reason to persecute Christians. The apologists' argument to the pagan philosophers was that Christianity had everything their philosophy had-- and more.   Cassette
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#112 The Quest / The Quest for the Grail and Conversion of Manners   Merton, Thomas   The Quest for the Holy Grail is the quest for the supreme reality, the sacred, the source of life. This applies not only to monastics, but to anyone seeking the spiritual life. We are all to take our quest for Christ and the Grail with total seriousness within the framework of the life to which we are called. On side two Merton tells us that the real idea of conversion of manners is an underlying good that can be brought about by removing the obstacles to a deeper spiritual life.   Cassette
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#113 The Virtue of Temperance (two cassettes or two CDs)   Merton, Thomas   Because it works against the vices most debasing to human nature, temperance, according to Merton, is the most beautiful of the four moral virtues. Temperance orders and harmonizes man's whole being into one and from this order flows serenity of spirit. It adds a decor and splendor and makes us shine. Side two of this program is Merton presenting the views of St. Thomas on temperance.   Cassette
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#114 The Prophets (2 cassettes or 3 CDs)   Merton, Thomas   Merton says that we are to individually apply the characteristics of the classical prophets in our lives. It is our obligation to accept the will of God and to accept this even if it cuts across the societal establishment and accepted principles.   Cassette
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MEDITATION IN DAILY LIFE   Finley, James   A Merton-based spirituality.   Cassette
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MERTON ON ASCETICISM AND SOLITUDE / SET OF 4 CDs   Merton, Thomas   This set includes: #28-Solitude: Breaking the Heart, #29-Solitude and Resurrection, #54-The Paradox of Joy and Sorrow, #85-True Freedom.   CD
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MERTON ON CONTEMPLATION AND MARIAN SPIRITUALITY / SET OF 4 CDs   Merton, Thomas   This set includes: #7-Renunciation & Contemplation, #100-The Contemplative Call, #38-The Virgin Mary, #62-Mary: Light & Temple,   CD
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MERTON ON LOVE / SET of 7 CDs   Merton, Thomas   This set includes the following CDs: #034-Love Casts Out Fear #066-Heart Alive With Love #078-Created for Love #079-In the Arms of God #094-Love is Enough #102-Love and Purity of Heart #036-Pure Love   CD
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MERTON ON PRAYER, PART 1 / SET OF 4 CDs   Merton, Thomas   This set includes: #004-Our Father: Perfect Prayer #053-Prayer: The Search for Inner Rest #051-Prayer and Self Growth #105-Prayer and the Yoke of Christ   CD
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MERTON ON PRAYER, PART 2 / SET OF 5 CDs   Merton, Thomas   This set includes the following CDs: #006-Prayer and the Active Life #002-Faith and Prayer #005-Does God Hear Our Prayer #108-The Jesus Prayer   CD
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MERTON ON SELF ACTUALIZATION / SET OF 4 CDs   Merton, Thomas   This set includes the following CDs: #058-True and False Self #093-Fully Human Being #031-Authentic Friendship #091-Surrender to God   CD
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MERTON ON SPIRITUALITY PART I / SET OF 6 CDs   Merton, Thomas   This set includes the following: #09-Beauty Is From God #17-Monastic Spirituality Citeaux #18-Monastic Spirituality II #19-Meaning of Monastic Spirituality #39-Silence #101-The Desert God   CD
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MERTON ON SPIRITUALITY PART II / SET OF 5 CDs   Merton, Thomas   This set of five CDs includes: #71-Sanctity, #96-Awakening the Heart, #97-Facing the Truth of Life, #98-Seeking and Finding God, #99-The Door of Paradise   CD
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