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Sr. Miriam had been urged to write to Merton for some years by their mutual friend Rabbi Zalman Schachter. She writes about the monastic "identity crisis" and about the new generation of "Hippies and Tinnie-Boppers."
Sr. Miriam Benedict was a Benedictine sister of Regina Laudis Monastery in Bethlehem, Connecticut. At the time of writing, she was Postulant Mistress.
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See also published letters in The School of Charity, p. 347.
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1967/08/21 |
TALS to Merton |
We are reading your, Monastic Vocation and Modern Thought from the Advent 1966 issue of Monastic |
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1967/09/15 |
TL[c] from Merton |
This is really a sort of round robin reply to all the various letters and notes, including a letter |
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1967/09/24 |
TALS to Merton |
Thank you for your letter of the 15th and the envelope with the enclosures. The letter has been |
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