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This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Consolata, Mary, Mother, O.S.C.".
Mother Mary Consolata was Clarissine Abbess of the Madres Clarisas monastery in La Paz, Bolivia.
Please click here for general restrictions concerning Merton's correspondence.
See also one published letter from Merton to Mother Consolata in The School of Charity, p. 377.
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.
Click icons for links: ✓="Published | Library Record", ✉="Scanned" | 🗷="Scanned, Viewable Only at Merton Center"
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1968/04/07 |
TLS to Merton |
We received the tape you made for the sisters in the Allegheny cloister, for which we are very |
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Merton's recording for Allegheny nuns - need for contemplative orders to make their own decisions and not feel compelled to become an "active" order, yet desperate need of sick in the area - is it justifiable for them to establish clinic to help poor? - 3 nurses already in community
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1968/04/14 |
TL[c] from Merton |
It seems to me that in you circumstances there you have an obligation to do something like opening |
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supports the establishment of a clinic - need not disrupt contemplation, but love of the poor should flow from the spirit of silence and contemplation in the community - true spirit of the Franciscan eremitism of St. Clare and St. Francis is "of the poor and not just a symbol of established religion [...] supported by the rich
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