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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. (one cassette left) |
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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. (One left) |
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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. (One left) |
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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. |
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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." |
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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. (One left) |
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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. (One left) |
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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. (Two left) |
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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. (One left) |
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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. |
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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. (One left) |
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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. |
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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. (One left) |
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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. (One left) |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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| MEDITATION IN DAILY LIFE | Finley, James | A Merton-based spirituality. (Three left) |
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