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This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Chrysostom, Fr., O.C.S.O.".
Fr. Chrysostom was a Trappist monk at Mepkin Abbey in Moncks Corner, South Carolina.
Please click here for general restrictions concerning Merton's correspondence.
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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| # | Date | From/To | First Lines | Pub ✓ | Notes |
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1968/02/05 |
TLS to Merton |
Greetings from the Southland! Please excuse this intrusion into your solitude. The main purpose of |
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asking Merton's thoughts on allowing brief oral exchanges among the novitiate / professed monks have had this policy for four months / assigned reading for novices - Peifer's Monastic Spirituality / should there be communications between novices and the professed?
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1968/02/21 |
TL[c] from Merton |
I don't know if I can really help you much in your question about the novices' practice of silence. |
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Merton somewhat out of touch with community as hermit - thinks current practice, which he supports, is free communications at certain times and places but limits on when and where this is - communications between novices and professed should be very limited / silence like the past but without artificiality
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