Liturgical Feasts and Seasons

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"This readable emolument is a timely reminder of how Merton was shaped by the liturgical year and his own immersion in the monastic offices. It is wonderful to have it available to a new audience."

-Lawrence S. Cunningham, University of Notre Dame

"In these conferences, Thomas Merton exhorts his novices to 'absorb the meaning' of the chants they sing and to participate in the liturgy 'with intelligent faith and enlightened love.' The text consists of the notes Merton used to prepare the novices to celebrate various liturgical feasts and seasons. Patrick O'Connell's meticulous scholarship and comprehensive familiarity with Merton's thought is evident throughout his extensive introduction to the book and in the notes he provides to the text."

-Theresa Sandok, former director of the Thomas Merton Center, Bellarmine University

"Introduced with meticulous care by Patrick O'Connell, Liturgical Feasts and Seasons is a wonderful opportunity to journey with Merton through the liturgical year as his novices once did-to be guided by Merton not only as a monastic teacher but also as a contemplative teacher for all of us. Merton's explication is at once deep and clear, but also at times strikingly personal and immediate-as much as he illuminates the liturgical seasons and their biblical roots, he connects them to who we are and our own spiritual journeys."

-Tom Del Prete, former president, the International Thomas Merton Society