Items
-
Merton Recordings #175b Tr-2 - Lecture by Dan Walsh.
-
Merton Recordings #211 Tr-6 - Christmas Day mass at Merton's hermitage. Celebrant Fr. Dan Walsh.
-
Merton Recordings #212 Tr-2 - Origin of philosophy in the West. Lecture by Dan Walsh.
-
Merton Recordings #214 Tr-11 - Trinity Sunday high mass at Gethsemani - Dan Walsh celebrant.
-
Harpo and the Clown of God: The Seven-Storied Friendship of Thomas Merton and Robert Lax, a plenary lecture by Michael N. McGregor at the 15th General Meeting of the ITMS, held at St. Bonaventure University, Olean, NY, June 16, 2017.
NB: The live presentation included a slideshow that is not included because of copyright limitations. Michael N. McGregor is the author of Pure Act: The Uncommon Life of Robert Lax (Fordham University Press, 2015). His writings on Lax and Merton have appeared in a variety of publications, including Poetry, Poets & Writers Magazine, Notre Dame Magazine, The Merton Annual, and The Merton Journal. In 2017, he retired as a Professor of Creative Writing and English at Portland State University. -
Light in a Darkening Landscape: Presidential Address—ITMS Fifteenth General Meeting at St. Bonaventure University, Olean, NY, June 15, 2017, by Michael W. Higgins.
Michael W. Higgins, Distinguished Professor of Catholic Thought at Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT, served as fifteenth president of the International Thomas Merton Society (2015-2017). He is the author of numerous books, including Heretic Blood: The Spiritual Geography of Thomas Merton (1998), Thomas Merton: Faithful Visionary (2014), Unquiet Monk: Thomas Merton’s Questing Faith (2015), and Jean Vanier: Logician of the Heart (2016). -
1966-12-01: Correspondence with Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi (Reb Zalman), audio tape recorded letter to Merton
Zalman Schachter records a letter to Thomas Merton while driving. He mentions classes he is teaching and lectures for the R. M. Bucke Memorial Society in Montreal. He references the Vietnam War and the use of napalm. Captions include a photograph of Thomas Merton taken by Schachter of Merton holding a copy of The Psychedelic Experience by Timothy Leary, Ralph Metzner, and Richard Alpert, given to him by Zalman Schachter. -
1965-04-03: Correspondence with Angela of the Eucharist, OCD (Angela Collins, née Viola M. Collins), letter from Merton
-
1965-04-01: Correspondence with Angela of the Eucharist, OCD (Angela Collins, née Viola M. Collins), letter to Merton
-
1965-05-15: Letter from Jacques Winandy to Thomas Merton, 1965 May 15
Thomas Merton and Dom Winandy discuss the hermit and life Merton's essay, "For a Renewal of Eremitism."