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Offline Miseremini

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Seven Story Mountain by Merton
« on: May 09, 2023, 02:52:42 PM »
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    • I'm cleaning out one of my book cases and realize I haven't read this book by Merton.
    If anyone has read it... is it worth my time reading it?  The net seems to praise it but I'm wondering of its worth to a trad catholic.
    Opinions please.
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    Re: Seven Story Mountain by Merton
    « Reply #1 on: May 09, 2023, 03:05:14 PM »
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    • Quote from: Miseremini on May 09, 2023, 02:52:42 PM
    I'm cleaning out one of my book cases and realize I haven't read this book by Merton.
    If anyone has read it... is it worth my time reading it?  The net seems to praise it but I'm wondering of its worth to a trad catholic.
    Opinions please.
    Thomas Merton: "I see no contradiction between Buddhism and Christianity ... I intend to become as good a Buddhist as I can." (David Steindl-Rast, "Recollection of Thomas Merton's Last Days in the West" (Monastic Studies, 7:10, 1969)

    Steer clear of the Novus Ordo heretics. There are many great books from saints.

    I also recommend Our Lady of Fatima by W. T. Walsh and De institutione bene vivendi. The latter was the only book St. Francis Xavier carried on his missions besides his breviary.
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    Re: Seven Story Mountain by Merton
    « Reply #2 on: May 09, 2023, 04:58:05 PM »
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    • Quote from: Miseremini on May 09, 2023, 02:52:42 PM
    I'm cleaning out one of my book cases and realize I haven't read this book by Merton.
    If anyone has read it... is it worth my time reading it?  The net seems to praise it but I'm wondering of its worth to a trad catholic.
    Opinions please.
    If you want to know what a modernist commie Merton was, by all means read it. If you want something Catholic, instructive, and edifying, skip it. 

    He's ill news and bad example in spotlight. 
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    Offline Miseremini

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    Re: Seven Story Mountain by Merton
    « Reply #3 on: May 09, 2023, 05:20:13 PM »
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    • Thanks, it's in the trash!
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    Re: Seven Story Mountain by Merton
    « Reply #4 on: May 09, 2023, 06:11:07 PM »
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    • Quote from: Miseremini on May 09, 2023, 05:20:13 PM
    Thanks, it's in the trash!

    Good on ya!
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    Re: Seven Story Mountain by Merton
    « Reply #5 on: May 09, 2023, 11:52:08 PM »
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    • Read Joan of Arc by Mark Twain instead.  Start it when you have lots of time as you won't be able to put it down!
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    Re: Seven Story Mountain by Merton
    « Reply #6 on: May 10, 2023, 05:35:38 AM »
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    • From Thomas Merton and the monastic vision
    By Lawrence Cunningham ยท 1999



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