Thomas Merton Center

Merton Correspondence:

The "Unidentified Nuns and Religious Sisters (filed at the end of the sequence)" file

Single Item Record for the Date:
1964/December/30 

Series:    

Type:  TL[c] - Carbon copy of a typed letter (not signed).

To/From:   from Merton to "Dear Sister" 

# of pages:  1

Published in:  Witness to Freedom

First Lines:  "It must be about a month since you wrote your letter. It got here and got buried in the pile,"

Contents:  [WTF, pp. 194-195] need for prayer for renewal (aggiornamento) of religious life / "avoid forms of spirituality and piety that make us too aware of ourselves and of our precious interior lives and inner experiences" - "be free in the forgetfulness of self" - simultaneously do not plunge oneself too much into work and the "rat race"

Language:  English

Source or donor:  

Date received:  

Date added:  2004

Unique identifier:  Section A- "Unidentified Nuns and Religious Sisters (filed at the end of the sequence):"    1964/December/30