Engaging the World with Merton: On Retreat in Tom's Hermitage Celtic Why readers love this edition:

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Whether deep in prayer or peeling potatos in the kitchen

In her memoir

Prayers for Lighting of the Weekly Candles in Advent

and at night—to join together for times of thanksgiving

Engaging the World with Merton: On Retreat in Tom's Hermitage Celtic Why readers love this edition:In this engaging guide, M. Basil Pennington takes us on a retreat with Thomas Merton, in Merton's own Kentucky hermitage, reading his writings on the spiritual life, praying the hours, caring for the birds on the front porch. This is the place where Merton found greater silence and solitude than was possible for him within the walls of the monastery. Pennington fills this eloquent introduction to Merton with photographs taken in and around the