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THOMAS MERTON REFLECTION
**for the week of **
December 26, 2005
A note about inclusive language. Merton wrote before inclusive language was common practice. In light of Merton’s inclusive position on so many issues and his many references to our essential unity, we hope these reflections will be read from an inclusive point of view.
THOMAS MERTON REFLECTION
**for the week of **
December 26, 2005
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers, New York, 1955. Page 260.“There must be a time of day when the man who makes plans forgets his plans, and acts as if he had no plans at all.
There must be a time of day when the man who has to speak falls very silent. And his mind forms no more propositions, and he asks himself: Did they have a meaning?
There must be a time when the man of prayer goes to pray as if it were the first time in his life he had ever prayed; when the man of resolutions puts his resolutions aside as if they had all been broken, and he learns a different wisdom: distinguishing the sun from the moon, the stars from the darkness, the sea from the dry land, and the night sky from the shoulder of a hill.”
From No Man is an Island by Thomas Merton
A note about inclusive language. Merton wrote before inclusive language was common practice. In light of Merton’s inclusive position on so many issues and his many references to our essential unity, we hope these reflections will be read from an inclusive point of view.