Merton Monday: God is not only a Father but a Mother
God is both the "feminine principle" in the divinity that is the Hagia Sophia, Merton says.
Merton Monday: On empathy and charity
The importance of understanding and sympathizing with those we seek to help.
Merton Monday: The sacred awe
The sacred awe is no mere magic illusion but the real expression of a release of spiritual energy...
Merton Monday: ‘Whether you understand it or not, God loves you’
Whether you understand it or not, God loves you, is present in you, lives in you, dwells in you...
Merton Monday: ‘Love is my true identity’
"To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence..."
Merton Monday: Finding spiritual joy
Thomas Merton: "You were created for spiritual joy."
Merton Monday: The function of faith
"The function of faith is not to reduce mystery to rational clarity, but to integrate the unknown and the known together in a living whole, in which we are more and more able to transcend the limitations of our external self."