| Author Quoted | M.E. Boismard |
| Title Quoted | Du Baptême à Cana |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1960/12/01 |
| Imprint | Paris : Cerf. 1956 |
| Quotation | Came to St. Mary of Carmel and built a pretty fire in the fireplace and got settled down to read: and opening the book (Boismard-Du Baptême à Cana [Paris, 1956]) picked up where I had left off this morning before Prime. These were the first words I read in the finished house (after a brief introduction to explain why they are quoted). From Proverbs: 9:1-15. "La Sagesse a bâti sa maison, elle a dresse ses sept colonnes, elle a abattu ses bêtes, prepare son vin, elle depêche ses servantes pour proclamer sur les hauteurs de la cite: Venez, manger de mon pain, buvez du vin que j'ai prepare! Quittez la folie et vous vivrez. Marchez dans la voie de la Verite." ["Wisdom has built her house, she has set it up with seven pillars, she has slaughtered her beasts, prepared her wine, she sends her servants to proclaim from the heights of the city: Come eat of my bread, drink of the wine I have prepared. Desist from folly and you will live. Walk in the way of Truth."] |
| Quotation Source | Turning Toward the World: The Pivotal Years. The Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume 4, 1960-1963.; Edited by Victor A. Kramer. / San Francisco : Harper Collins. 1996, p. 71 |
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