Thomas Merton: Session 6

Turning to the Mystics with James Finley

Center for Action and Contemplation

Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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This is the sixth episode of eight that focuses on the mystic, Thomas Merton. In the spirit of Lectio Divina, James Finley draws from Thoms Merton’s The Seven Story Mountain and James Finley’s own Merton’s Palace of Nowhere to helps us respond to God’s presence in our lives, and show us which aspects need to be purified in order to realize the union with God that we long for. For the transcript to this podcast, you can find it here. To learn more about James Finley, 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.
0:14.3	Geehings,
0:16.3	H
0:17.4	H. Greetings everyone and welcome to our time here together exploring the teachings
0:31.0	of the Christian mystic Thomas Merton, turning to Merton for guidance in
0:39.1	our day by day lives. And in this session, I want to focus on the purgative aspects of being discerning that we're being
0:55.4	interiarily drawn toward more interior mystical ways of
1:01.1	experiencing and responding to God's presence in our lives,
1:05.0	discerning what the gift of it, like how to recognize that it's occurring,
1:12.0	and how to understand. that is the
1:15.0	the purgative that is the purifying aspects of what we must undergo in order for the union with God we long for to occur.
1:29.6	This will allow us then in the following session to turn to Merton's insights to the
1:39.3	fullness of the union that arises out of that pregation. So that there is a
1:44.4	pregation, there is a kind of an unraveling or an undoing of the ability to
1:50.2	live on our own terms. And then out of the deep acceptance of that unraveling, then there
1:59.0	arises the long-for union that we're then called to live in and to share with others day by day.
2:08.0	It is with this context and is a passage in Thomas Merton.
2:13.2	This is found in Merton's Palace of Nowhere, page 14.
2:16.9	And again, as with all of these, at least some of them,
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