When a journalist asked Thomas Merton to diagnose the leading spiritual disease of our time, the monk gave a curious one-word answer: efficiency. Why? From the monastery to the Pentagon, the plant has to run… and there is little time or energy left over after that to do anything else.
Archive for May, 2009
Merton on the Spiritual Disease of our time…
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PS Thought for the Day (Prayer)
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Praying Selflessly
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The psalms teach us to pray as a fellowship. The Body of Christ is praying, and as an individual one acknowledges that his prayer is only a minute fragment of the whole prayer of the Church. He learns to pray the prayer of the Body of Christ. And that lifts him above his [...]
