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• 1 Introduction Follow the Ecstacy - 1 hour
• 2 Merton the Man Lost & Found - 1 hour
• 3 Merton the Monk Gethsemani - 1 hour
• 4 Merton’s Moment Louisville Awakening - 1 hour
• 5 Merton’s Mirror Hermit Pilgrim - 1 hour 15 minutes
About Merton’s Mirror
“I was 18 years old, just having completed my military service, when one morning after Mass, Sr. Louis Michael, a Holy Cross Sister, walked across the church and handed me a book, The Sign of Jonas, in which she had written, “While we wait for a sign.” I was discerning my vocation at that time.
The Sign of Jonas began my relationship with Thomas Merton and kept alive in me the “inner monk,” finally realized 30 years later when I entered Camaldoli. Later, as Vocations Director and Novice Master, I was amazed at the number of young men who came to the Hermitage to explore their call, mainly because of reading Merton. 40 years after his death, he continued to speak with contemporary freshness – a spiritual language which the English world, in particular, could relate to and understand.
This retreat does not promise to supply new information or insights on Merton. There are libraries full of authors, as well as Merton himself to provide this. Rather, Merton’s Mirror is looking at this American man and monk, his talents and shadows, and observing what he says to us about ourselves. I believe Thomas Merton’s writings, journal, life and humanity can assist us in navigating our present situation with all its complexities and challenges.
My prayer is that this retreat, as Louis Michael wrote in 1968, will encourage and support us, “While we wait for a sign.”
- Michael Fish, OSB. CAM
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