Engaging the World with Merton: On Retreat in Tom's Hermitage Celtic Written with radiant honesty and

Written with radiant honesty and fierce tenderness

The sentimentality and commercialism that dominate the season tend to obscure the profound mystery at its heart: the Incarnation

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Engaging the World with Merton: On Retreat in Tom's Hermitage Celtic Written with radiant honesty andIn this engaging guide, M. Basil Pennington takes us on a retreat with Thomas Merton, in Merton's own Kentucky hermitage, reading his writings on the spiritual life, praying the hours, caring for the birds on the front porch. This is the place where Merton found greater silence and solitude than was possible for him within the walls of the monastery. Pennington fills this eloquent introduction to Merton with photographs taken in and around the