Jonathan Montaldo - Thomas Merton’s Contemplative Exercises for Entering the School of Our Lives. Presented for the Tuesdays with Merton Series, December 8, 2020.

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Jonathan Montaldo - Thomas Merton’s Contemplative Exercises for Entering the School of Our Lives. Presented for the Tuesdays with Merton Series, December 8, 2020.

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The volume Monastic Observances includes Merton's notes for teaching prayer. He inspired his novices to apprehend their lives as "schools of wisdom". He mentored a contemplative re-translation of their historical and inner experiences as exercises designing their truest selves. Merton's writing contains his own spiritual exercises for his continuing education in the school of a Divine Providence. Exercises in his journals can mentor re-translations of our own lives, producing conscious epiphanies of the graced interdependence of "all things" that continually conspire to propel our loving the world of our relationships that create our "one, wild and precious" lives (Mary Oliver).

Jonathan Montaldo served as director of the Thomas Merton Center and as president of the ITMS. As associate director for the Merton Institute for Contemplative Living, he directed its retreat center Bethany Spring. He co-created Bridges to Contemplative Living with Thomas Merton and co-edited The Intimate Merton. Other renditions of Merton’s writing include A Year with Thomas Merton, Dialogues with Silence, and Choosing to Love the World. He narrated five Merton audiobooks. A co-general editor for Fons Vitae’s Thomas Merton & series, he presents retreats based upon Merton’s legacy for mentoring our spiritual formations.

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Montaldo, Jonathan

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© Jonathan Montaldo

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1 hour

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Tuesdays with Merton lecture

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