No Place on Earth Is Home for the Christian
My mother, unlike me, always knew her home. She carried it in her heart wherever we lived before we moved to the small town across the river from the city where she was born.
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The Home and Our Children’s Need for Beauty
We train our children and ourselves how to seek God. It matters what toy the toddler plays with— it actually matters what it’s made out of and what it looks like! It matters what music the toddler listens to. It matters what plates we eat off of. It matters whether or not our children learn to appreciate beauty.
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Breaking the Silence at the Abbey of Gethsemani
Merton observes in his book Seeds of Contemplation that for him to be a saint, he must be himself. Nothing else is required. The most fundamental of all our vocations is the calling God gives to be ourselves.
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