[Magdalen] Spending Time With Merton

[Scott Knitter]

I couldn't face the oppressive grayness outside today, so I spent the
afternoon indoors with Thomas Merton's The Seven Storey Mountain. Almost
finished.

An essential read that is helping inspire me...I've needed to read
someone's fervent commitment to the faith, as it's felt like a hobby lately
rather than an understanding of How Things Are. Very helpful.

He sure didn't have time for non-RC Christians, though, did he? His
experience of the C of E was not the best..."a class cult." Not surprising,
as he had experienced the public boys' school variety of chapel services,
mainly. But I sort of have to read around his condescension toward
Anglicans and Old Catholics (he had a common bad impression of that,
too...a man who had been an archbishop in such a "schismatic" sect). I
suppose he's saying what he should say as an RC.

Needed to reread "Mountain" before delving into No Man Is an Island and New
Seeds of Contemplation. I need his help.

-- 
Scott R. Knitter
Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA