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MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Conner, James, Fr., O.C.S.O.

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Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1962-1963, 1966

Volume: 9 item(s); 25 pg(s)

Scope and Content

This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Conner, Tarcisius, Fr., O.C.S.O. (Fr. James Conner)".

Biography

Fr. James Conner (who went by Fr. Tarcisius during his correspondence with Merton) came to Gethsemani in 1949, was ordained in 1957, and was assigned to theological studies in Rome at the beginning of his correspondence with Merton. He writes to Merton from Rome, Paris, and Mont des Cats Abbey in Northern France.

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Related Information and Links

See letters from Merton to Conner in The School of Charity, pp. 157-158, 173-175, 315-317.

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Series List

This Record Sub-Group is not divided into Series and is arranged chronologically.

Container List

SeriesDateTypeTo/FromFirst LinesPubFull TextNotes
 1962/11/27 (#01)TAL[c]from MertonThanks for your good letter from Paris. It reached me after about five weeks, and I enjoyed it.Yes Marie Tadié / <i>La communauté et l'abbé dans la règle de saint Benoît</i> by Adalbert de Vogüé - true meaning of cenobitic life - not "chummy picnic cum hairshirts" / merging of two novitiates - monastic formation program by Fr. Flavian / asks for the "inside secrets" of the Second Vatican Council
 1962/11/27 (#02)TALS[x]from MertonThanks for your good letter from Paris. It reached me after about five weeks, and I enjoyed it.Yes [copied from Sub-Section H.7, Accession 2, Hart Working Files] Marie Tadié / <i>La communauté et l'abbé dans la règle de saint Benoît</i> by Adalbert de Vogüé - true meaning of cenobitic life - not "chummy picnic cum hairshirts" / merging of two novitiates - monastic formation program by Fr. Flavian / asks for the "inside secrets" of the Second Vatican Council
 1963/06/23 TAL[c]from MertonThanks for your letter and for your frivolous card in Italian. Even the Italians are now infectedYes Dom André from Mont des Cats pleased with Berryville and <u>Monastic Studies</u> / monastic formation program - ignorance of the brothers of the Church Fathers - myth that tradition is dead / De Rancé - some will not accept that someone can be a saint and an "obsessive neurotic" / Merton's planned book on Cassian
 1963/08/26 HLSto MertonA belated feast day greeting to you! I thought of you yesterday but didn't get a chance to begin  [from Mont des Cats Abbey] Serge Bolshakoff visiting / does not know of a centenary celebration for De Rancé but next issue of <u>Collectanea</u> will feature articles on him / Jean Leclercq - closeness between European Benedictines and American Trappists / Cardinal Montini chosen as pope [Pope Paul VI]
 1963/12/16 HLSto MertonGreetings and a very blessed Christmas season to you! I am enclosing a card of Our Lady which  [from Mont des Cats Abbey] inside information from the Second Vatican Council - debate over "Skema on Communications Media" - books <i>Inside the Council</i> by Robert Kaiser and <i>Letters from the Vatican</i> by Xavier Rhyne / Dom Jean Leclercq's class at San Anselmo
 1966/08/no? TN[c]from MertonThanks for the documents you have sent over. I have not yet finished some of them. I like best the  [to Conner at Gethsemani] notes by Dom Willibrord on the Usages / proposed conferences by Conner
 1966/10/01 (#01)TL[c]from MertonThanks for letting me see the conference of Fr Orsy. It is as you say very good and should be madeYes comments and criticism of the conference notes of Fr. Orsy - monastic life and relation of monks to their superior - what is meant by the "will of God"
 1966/10/01 (#02)TLSfrom MertonThanks for letting me see the conference of Fr Orsy. It is as you say very good and should be madeYes comments and criticism of the conference notes of Fr. Orsy - monastic life and relation of monks to their superior - what is meant by the "will of God"
 1966/10/01 (#03)other[x] GOVERNMENT IN RELIGIOUS LIFE: THE COUNCIL'S TEACHING [-] Conference by Ladislaus Orsy, s.j.  [copied from Sub-Section H.7, Hart Working Files, Accession 2]
        

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