Our Response to Suffering
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- Опубліковано 21 жов 2024
- Thomas Merton, O.C.S.O. was an American Catholic writer and mystic. A Trappist monk of the Abbey of Gethsemani, Kentucky, he was a poet, social activist, and student of comparative religion.
James Finley left home at the age of 18 for the Abbey of Gethsemani in Trappist, Kentucky, where Thomas Merton lived as a contemplative. Finley stayed at the monastery for six years, living the traditional Trappist life of prayer, silence, and solitude. Here Finley describes life with Thomas Merton, and how he pointed the way to an enlightened state of awareness open to us all.
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Jim’s explanation here just grand-slams the whole contemplation fruits into the end zone. All w/in just a few minutes!👏☘️
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In light of the Ukrainian crises, this brought strange comfort of WHERE GOD IS EFFECTIVE IN REALITY & SUFFERING. THANK YOU🛐
God keeps His angels busy naming stars and producing harmonious celestial music etc.......
there is no other reality than 'the contemplative point of view' in which the individual and God merge or better said, the individual dissolves in God, or even better, the eternal God is revealed to Itself
Yes, thank you. I love James work.
Even a child when calling out to God will respond to that call for help. I dont quite understand why God wouldnt help a child under going a violation ? Is God not love.
There are many articles Religious or Secular on the subject of "Why does God permit evil?" In the last verse of the book of Jonah in Sacred Scripture, God shows great concern for all humans and even the animals of Ninevah, while Jonah was even angry or hostile towards God when he learned that God was going to spare them, meaning that he would lose face as a Prophet.
They were spared because they repented, but later on they returned to their bad ways and God did cause them to be destroyed. He even thoroughly humiliated the City of Ninevah through His Prophet Nahum, before the City was destroyed. It is a teaching example. But there was one possible opening to the Heart of God for some people cited at Nahum 1:7
Why is it that most people when they talk about spiritual matters sound like they are drugged on heavy medication. Always a slow monotone drone??