Product DescriptionCharged with training young monks at Gethsemani Abbey, Thomas Merton combined his literary genius and his love of the monastic tradition to produce Monastic Orientation Notes as the bases of his classes. In this volume, he treats the many and varied forms of monastic life which preceded, and helped to form, the Rule of Saint Benedict.
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This book is the second volume of a recent collection for Cistercian Publications by Prof. Patrick O'Connell presenting Father Merton's own typsecripts of his talks given to novices while serving as Novice Master at Gethsemane.
The first volume of this series, Cassian and the Fathers: Initiation Into the Monastic Tradition, publishes Father Merton's notes on Cassian, the influential author of the The Institutes and 57. John Cassian: The Conferences (Ancient Christian Writers) as well ... Read More
