This year marks the first centenary of Thomas Merton’s birth day. As a trappist monk, prolific writer of best-sellers on spirituality and mysticism Merton marked a new way of exploring the mystic phenomenon in the Twentieth Century. His experience and writings promoted dialogue between Christian mysticism and the mysticism of the Far East mainly through contact with Zen Buddhism and encounters with His Holiness the Dalai Lama. As a monk he recaptured again the prophetic dimension of the ascetic life, rethinking and living it in a new way through his involvement as an activist for world peace mainly by voicing protests as a prophetic mystic on political and social issues of his time.
Carmelite Institute Malta in collaboration with the Society of Christian Doctrine, supported by the Thomas Merton Centre in Bellarmine University, is joining the worldwide celebrations to commemorate Merton and his legacy.
A two-day seminar will be held on 21-22 November at the Mdina Carmelite Priory offering an opportunity to rediscover Merton anew as an untiring wayfarer and explorer of the deepest aspirations of humankind. Lectures will be delivered in Maltese.
A two-day seminar will be held on 21-22 November at the Mdina Carmelite Priory offering an opportunity to rediscover Merton anew as an untiring wayfarer and explorer of the deepest aspirations of humankind. Lectures will be delivered in Maltese.
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