Thomas Merton Center

Manuscripts in Sub-Section C.2:

Martha, Mary and Lazarus : Action and Contemplation in Saint Bernard of Clairvaux

Item 1 - Action and contemplation

First Lines:  Before we approach the subject of this book, which is St Bernard's doctrine on the Active

Sub-Type:  Manuscript

Draft:  1st Draft (incomplete)

Copy Type:  Typescript carbon

Date:  no-month no-day, 1956

Number of pages:  14

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  Bound as the second part of "Martha, Mary and Lazarus. Incomplete drafts. 1956." Uncorrected and incomplete 1st draft of the essay "Action and contemplation in the mystery of Christ."

Location:  Archive - Stack 3 (bound volume)

Item 2 - ACTION AND CONTEMPLATION IN ST BERNARD (continued) III- The Care of Souls.

First Lines:  A curious error of the Cistercian Joachim of Flora, condemned by Alexander IV in 1255, bears

Sub-Type:  Manuscript

Draft:  1st Draft

Copy Type:  Typescript carbon with holograph corrections

Date:  no-month no-day, 1956

Number of pages:  22

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  Bound as the third part of "Martha, Mary and Lazarus. Incomplete drafts. 1956." 1st draft of the book chapter three titled "The Care of Souls." It was retitled "Saint Bernard et la vie apostolique" in the French edition (1956), retaining it as the third section. The English version (1980) (in Thomas Merton on St. Bernard) changes it to the fourth section and titles it "The Apostolate." See Section E.1, "Action and Contemplation in St. Bernard," for a later draft.

Location:  Archive - Stack 3 (bound volume)

Item 3 - Action and contemplation in the mystery of Christ

First Lines:  Before we approach the subject of this book, which is St Bernard's doctrine on the Active

Sub-Type:  Manuscript

Draft:  1st Draft

Copy Type:  Typescript with holograph corrections

Date:  no-month no-day, 1956

Number of pages:  16

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  Bound as the first part of "Martha, Mary and Lazarus. Incomplete drafts. 1956." 1st draft of the essay, "Action and contemplation in the mystery of Christ." See Section E.1, "Action and Contemplation in St. Bernard," for a later draft.

Location:  Archive - Stack 3 (bound volume)

Item 4 - MARTHA MARY AND LAZARUS-- The Primacy of Contemplation in St Bernard

First Lines:  APPENDIX-- Texts from the saint (Migne, P.L., vol. 183.) 1- The Three Lives-- Serm. 3 Assumption,

Sub-Type:  Manuscript

Draft:  

Copy Type:  Typescript carbon

Date:  no-month no-day, no-year

Number of pages:  1

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  Bound at the end of "Martha, Mary and Lazarus. Incomplete drafts. 1956." Two copies of an appendix.

Location:  Archive - Stack 3 (bound volume)

Item 5 - VI Mulier Amicta Sole Action and contemplation in the Blessed Virgin Mary.

First Lines:  There is one exeption to St Bernard's rule that every perfect soul combines in itself the vocations

Sub-Type:  Manuscript

Draft:  1st Draft

Copy Type:  Typescript carbon with holograph corrections

Date:  no-month no-day, no-year

Number of pages:  13

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  Bound as the fourth part of "Martha, Mary and Lazarus. Incomplete drafts. 1956." 1st draft of the book chapter four (but labeled VI) titled "Mulier Amicta Sole: Action and Contemplation in the Blessed Virgin Mary." It appears at the fifth section in both the French edition (1956) and the English version (1980) (in Thomas Merton on St. Bernard). See Section E.1, "Action and Contemplation in St. Bernard," for a later draft.

Location:  Archive - Stack 3 (bound volume)