This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Seidel, Helen Jean, Sr., S.L.".
Sr. Helen Jean Seidel was the Mistress of Novices for the Sisters of Loretto at their motherhouse in Nerinx, Kentucky, at the time of writing.
Please click here for general restrictions concerning Merton's correspondence.
See also one published letter from Merton to Seidel in The School of Charity, pp. 140-141.
If the person in correspondence with Merton has full text records in the Merton Center Digital Collections, there will be a numeric link to them below.
This Record Sub-Group is not divided into Series and is arranged chronologically.
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1961/10/09 |
TLS from Merton |
This morning I got a nice note from Mother Luke, and I had been intending to write to her to thank |
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sending notes on mental prayer / balance between training in methods of entering meditation and the freedom to abandon structured forms / Brillet's Meditations on the Old Testament
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