The Sign of Jonas

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Begun five years after he entered the Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani, The Sign of Jonas is an extraordinary view of Merton’s life in a Trappist monastery, and it serves also as a spiritual log recording the deep meaning and increasing sureness he felt in his vocation: the growth of a mind that finds in its contracted physical world new intellectual and spiritual dimensions.
Begun five years after he entered the Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani, The Sign of Jonas is an extraordinary view of Merton’s life in a Trappist monastery, and it serves also as a spiritual log recording the deep meaning and increasing sureness he felt in his vocation: the growth of a mind that f...

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A Google user
January 7, 2010
Whenever I read the epilogue, the "fire watch" I see Merton ascending the stairs of the old abbey tower with each word and stillness, awe, and most importantly though I am lost to what is written I slip soundlessly through a portal,to worship! Sudden, profound and utterly full, complete, "True Worship" that is further from myself and my littleness and ability that I just rise with the word and let HIM, Jesus take me to what is "further"! Inadequate but I had to say something or faint away or dissolve like the wa.......
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Thomas Merton (1915–1968) was born in France and came to live in the United States at the age of twenty-four. He received several awards recognizing his contribution to religious study and contemplation, including the Pax Medal in 1963, and remained a devoted spiritualist and a tireless advocate for social justice until his death in 1968. The Sign of Jonas was originally published in 1953.
Thomas Merton (1915–1968) was born in France and came to live in the United States at the age of twenty-four. He received several awards recognizing his contribution to religious study and contemplation, including the Pax Medal in 1963, and remained a devoted spiritualist and a tireless advocate ...

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