So FRIDAY'S POST has gone unplugged now from the social media worldwide TV cable talk-radio newspaper interweb. Time to break from the grid.
See you again April 9.
Meantime, a few words from our favorite mystic, Thomas Merton, on this business of unplugging in Lent, written on the eve of Ash Wednesday in 1964,
I am glutted with books and a million trifles besides -- articles on this and that...Does one have to read all this? Enough! Thank God tomorrow is Lent. I am glutted...May Lent be blessed with emptiness and peace and faith.
Word, Merton. Word.
--tim
Friday, February 19, 2010
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ReplyDeleteat the time of martin luther king's assassination in 1968, a three person retreat was being arranged which was to bring he and the vietnamese buddhist monk, thich nhat hanh, to thomas merton's little cinder block hermitage on the grounds of the abbey of gethsemane. merton, of course, would soon follow king to 'walk among the stars' during his fateful pilgrimage to asia. oh! what might have been!