Thomas Merton: Session 4

Turning to the Mystics with James Finley

Center for Action and Contemplation

Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

This is the fourth episode of eight that focuses on the mystic, Thomas Merton. In the spirit of Lectio Divina, James Finley re-visits Thomas Merton’s prayer from Thoughts in Solitude that he touched on in Session 2. In this session, Jim turns it into a reflective prayer and guides us into better ways of understanding ourselves, our lives in the presence of God, and how God sustains and guides us as Jim finishes with a meditative practice. For the transcript to this podcast, you can find it here. To learn more, visit jamesfinley.org  Turning to the Mystics is a podcast by the Center for Action and Contemplation. We'd love to hear your thoughts, comments or feedback. To do so, email us at [email protected] Have a question you’d like Jim or Kirsten to answer on a future episode? Email us: [email protected] or, send us a voicemail: cac.org/voicemail This podcast is made possible, thanks to the generosity of our donors. If you would love to support the ongoing work of the Center for Action and Contemplation and the continued work of our podcasts, you can donate at cac.org/podcastsupport Thank you!

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0:00.0	You're listening to a podcast by the Center for Action and Contemplation.
0:04.4	To learn more, visit cac.org.
0:08.5	Greetings, I'm Jim Finley.
0:11.4	Welcome to Turning to the Mystics.
0:17.0	Geech, Greetings everyone and welcome to our time here together turning to the Christian
0:32.4	mystic Thomas Merton to for guidance and helping us to deepen our
0:38.6	experience of and response to God's presence in our life.
0:44.0	In this session, I'll be sharing a passage that focuses on the theme of prayer and Thomas Mertian.
0:52.0	We saw this before, we refer to this passage before in an earlier session,
1:00.0	the passage, my lord God, I have no idea where I'm going but there we stopped with the first
1:05.4	three words my Lord God to a way of grounding ourselves in the devotional sincerity in which is deepening
1:16.6	union with God takes place in prayer. And so I went and I'll return to that
1:21.6	passage again, I'll read it, and then share with you how
1:27.0	Merton's prayerful exchange with God in this
1:33.7	prayerful exchange with God in this passage.
1:36.0	He is sharing with us how he's learning to understand himself and
1:40.6	to understand his life in the presence of God and to understand his life in the presence of God and to understand how God sustains
1:46.8	him and guides him.
1:50.9	And so, Merton in the monastery, I listened deeply to God.
1:56.0	And having listened deeply to God, his Alexio and prayer and silence in the Psalms,
2:02.0	he's now talking to God, engaging in kind of a meditative dialogue with God.
2:10.0	And as I listened to Merton's words, as he talks to God, his words become my Lexio.
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