Lectio Divina as Poetry & Prayer

Thomas Merton and writing as a vocation

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“Thus, every man, in the course of his life, must not only show himself obedient and docile. By his fidelity he must build — starting with the most natural territory of his own self — a work, an opus, into which something enters from all the elements of the earth. He makes his own soul throughout his earthly days; and at the same time he collaborates in another work…