Articles by:

Merton, Thomas.

MERTON ANNUAL ARTICLES

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"About Contemplative Life Today."

16

2003

"Aesthetic and Contemplative Experience - James Joyce," transcribed and edited by Paul M. Pearson.

27

2014

"Answers for Hernan Lavin Cerda."

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2

1989

"Application for Conscientious Objector Status – March 1941,” introduction by Jim Forest.

28

2015

"Authentic Identity is Prayerful Existence."

20

2007

"A Balanced Life of Prayer."

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8

1995

"The Black Sheep."

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11

1998

"Christian Perspectives in World Crisis."

17

2004

"Comments about the Religious Life Today: Transcript of a Recording Made by and Edited by Father Louis Merton for Special General Chapter Sister of Loretto, 1967."

14

2001

"Editing the Journals of Thomas Merton - A Postscript: Four Merton Journal Transcriptions: Two Missing Sheets of Merton Journal Discovered."

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9

1996

"Four Unpublished Poems."

22

2009

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9

1996

"Letter to a Poet about Vallejo."

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2

1989

"Letters to Pat" edited with an Introduction by Paul M. Pearson.

30

2017

"List of Works Submitted for the Approval of the Most Reverend Fathers Capitular, OCSO., Meeting at Citeaux, May 1946."

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2

1989

"The Man in the Sycamore Tree: A Fragment of an Early Novel."

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5

1992

"A Monastic Correspondence with Jean Leclercq, OSB."

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3

1990

"Monastic Courtesy."

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12

1999

"'The Monk and Sacred Art' (1956); and 'Art and Worship' (1959)." Edited by Glenn Crider and Victor A. Kramer.

18

2005

"The Neurotic Personality in the Monastic Life."

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4

1991

"On Remembering Monsieur Delmas," edited with an introduction by Patrick F. O'Connell.

34

2021

"The Ox Mountain Parable of Meng Tzu."

15

2002

"'The Pope of the Virgin Mary' and Other Uncollected Marian Writings" introduction by Patrick F. O'Connell.

33

2020

"Preface to Dom Denys Rutledge's In Search of a Yogi."

23

2010

"'A Quite Exceptional Convent’: The Regina Laudis Correspondence." Edited with an Introduction by Patrick F. O’Connell.

29

2016

"The School of the Spirit."

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10

1997

"Some Points from the Birmingham Non-Violence Movement."

25

2012

"Thomas Merton and Douglas V. Steere, Correspondence, 1962-1968."

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6

1993

"Three Prayers on Sacred Art."

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2

1989

"'Three Prayers' Written for Frank Kacmarcik."

18

2005

"Time of Transition: A Selection of Letters from the Earliest Correspondence of Thomas Merton and Ernesto Cardenal" edited by Christine Bochen.

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8

1995

"To Father Thomas Fidelis (Francis) Smith, O.C.S.O."

19

2006

"Two Conferences on Prayer: India 1968."

31

2018

"Variant Drafts of The Sign of Jonas."

13

2000

"Vocations to the Lay Apostolate."

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7

1994

"The Wild Places."

24

2011

"The Zen Insight of Shen Hui."

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1

1988

MERTON SEASONAL ARTICLES

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"The Angel and the Machine."

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Issue 22:1

(Spring 1997)

"Another Stop on 'The Road to Joy': A Letter."

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Issue 19:1

(Winter 1994)

"Aubade: Lake Erie." [poem]

Issue 18:1

(Winter 1993)

"The Camaldolese Way."

Issue 40:4

(Winter 2015)

"Camus, Catholicism and the Death Penalty" introduced and transcribed by Mark C. Meade.

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Issue 38:3

(Fall 2013)

"Centered on Faith: An Excerpt."

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Issue 10:3

(Summer 1985)

"Christian Worship and Social Reform."

Issue 34:4

(Winter 2009)

"A Conference on Integration: Praying from the Heart" edited by David M. Odorisio.

Issue 35:1

(Spring 2010)

"The Death of a Holy Terror: The Strange Story of Frere Pascal."

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Issue 24:1

(Spring 1999)

"Dom Vital at Gethsemani – August 1966."

Issue 41:2

(Summer 2016)

"Evening: Zero Weather." [poem]

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Issue 2:1

(Winter 1977)

"Fall, from The Secular Journal of Thomas Merton."

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Issue 1:3

(Fall 1976)

"Father Joseph Cassant, OCSO."

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Issue 28:4

(Winter 2003)

"Five Limericks for Father Raymond."

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Issue 23:2

(Summer 1998)

"Four Early Unpublished Poems."

Issue 25:2

(Summer 2000)

"God and the World: The Church and the 'Godless World' - 3 ."

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Issue 27:2

(Summer 2002)

"Grave Robber Beware." [poem] Introduced by Paul M. Pearson.

Issue 29:2

(Summer 2004)

"A Great Voyage." Introduced and Transcribed by Paul M. Pearson.

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Issue 24:4

(Winter 1999)

"Guide to Blake: An Uncollected Early Review."

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Issue 26:2

(Summer 2001)

"Hagia Sophia: An Excerpt."

Issue 20:1

(Winter 1995)

"The Haunted Castle."

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Issue 19:1

(Winter 1994)

"In God's Desert."

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Issue 18:2

(Spring 1993)

"In the Wilderness."

Issue 40:2

(Summer 2015)

"Jacob's War."

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Issue 33:3

(Fall 2008)

"'Life in the Damned Thing:' The Letters of Thomas Merton to Reginald Marsh" introduced by Paul M. Pearson.

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Issue 29:3

(Fall 2004)

"Meditations, December 23-30, 1941 ."

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Issue 25:4

(Winter 2000)

"Merton's Words in China."

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Issue 15:3

(Summer 1990)

"Monastic Vows: A Memorandum."

Issue 36:2

(Summer 2011)

"My Lord God - Bwana Munga Wangu."

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Issue 18:1

(Winter 1993)

"My Visits to the Secular Bookhouse."

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Issue 22:2

(Summer 1997)

"The Protest of Vitalism: The Church and the 'Godless World' - 4 ."

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Issue 27:3

(Fall 2002)

"The Road Ahead: The Church and the 'Godless World' - 6 ."

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Issue 27:4

(Winter 2002)

"Run to the Mountain: Four More Journal Entries." Editor's Note by Patrick Hart, OCSO.

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Issue 20:4

(Fall 1995)

“Solitary Life in the Shadow of a Cistercian Monastery.”

Issue 37:4

(Winter 2012)

"Spiritual Direction."

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Issue 32:1

(Spring 2007)

"Statement on Clerical Celibacy."

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Issue 4:3

(Fall 1979)

"Three Early Unpublished Poems."

Issue 25:3

(Fall 2000)

"Three Poems" by Miguel Hernandez, translated by Thomas Merton.

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Issue 28:4

(Winter 2003)

"Three Unpublished Poems on Mythological Themes."

Issue 25:1

(Spring 2000)

"Three Unpublished Poems."

Issue 25:4

(Winter 2000)

"Two Poems" by Miguel Hernandez, translated by Thomas Merton.

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Issue 28:3

(Fall 2003)

"Two Poems" by Miguel Hernandez, translated by Thomas Merton.

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Issue 28:2

(Summer 2003)

"Two Unpublished Poems."

Issue 28:1

(Spring 2003)

"An Unpublished Poem." [poem]

Issue 29:1

(Spring 2004)

"The Vatican Council and Sacred Art."

Issue 35:3

(Fall 2010)

"A Very Early Essay."

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Issue 21:3

(Fall 1996)

"The 'World' the Church and the 'Godless World' - 1 ."

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Issue 27:1

(Spring 2002)

"Your Will and Your Vocation."

Issue 34:2

(Summer 2009)