Patrick M Hart

Walking with Thomas Merton: Discovering His Poetry, Essays, and Journals

Discovering the Unknown Merton Merton as poet is one of the least known and most under-appreciated aspects of his life. In preparation for giving a retreat, the award-winning author re-examined Merton's spiritual classics, journals, essays, letters, and especially his poetry--and found himself on...

Thomas Merton's Gethsemani: Landscapes of Paradise

Introduction by Jonathan MontaldoForeword by Brother Patrick Hart, OCSOFor twenty-seven years, renowned and beloved monk Thomas Merton (1915-1968) belonged to Our Lady of Gethsemani, a Trappist monastery established in 1848 amid the hills and valleys near Bardstown, Kentucky. In Thomas Merton's Geth...

Making a Heart for God: A Week Inside a Catholic Monastery

The monastic experience demystified—an essential guide to what it’s like to spend a week inside a Catholic monastery. A life of quiet, work and prayer, monasticism has been a part of the Christian spiritual tradition for over 1,700 years, and it remains very much alive today. This guide will prepare...

In the Valley of Wormwood: Cistercian Blessed and Saints of the Golden Age (Cistercian Studies)

Shortly after entering the monastic life in December 1941, a relatively unknown Trappist monk called Frater Louis who would later be known to the world by his given name, Thomas Merton began to pen biographical sketches of early Cistercian blessed and saints. These were initially collected, printed,...

Portraits of Grace: Images and Words from the Monastery of the Holy Spirit

James Stephen Behrens is a Trappist monk at the Monastery of the Holy Spirit in Conyers, GA. Over one hundred original photographs from the monastery are featured in Portraits of Grace; each captivating image is accompanied by brief snippets of inspirational words to spark reflection and inn...

Media and the Apocalypse

Responding to a plethora of media representing end times, this anthology of essays examines pop cultures fascination with end of the world or apocalyptic narratives. Essays discuss films and made-for-television moviesincluding Deep Impact, The Core, and The Day After Tomorrowthat feature primarily [...

The Asian Journal of Thomas Merton (New Directions Books)

"This is quintessential Merton."—The Catholic Review."The moment of takeoff was ecstatic...joy. We left the ground—I with Christian mantras and a great sense of destiny, of being at last on my true way after years of waiting and wondering..." With these words, dated October 15. 1968, the late Father...

Savarona

Istanbul's sights, sounds, and scents permeate this tale of terror and espionage at the crossroads of East and West. Bill Bigelow is a drifter with a history of mental illness and a habit of removing his clothes at the worst possible times. When he lapses into psychosis, his only hope is George Mc...

Love and Living

Love and Living

School of Charity: The Letters of Thomas Merton on Religious Renewal and Spiritual Direction

Run to the Mountain: The Story of a Vocation

Run to the Mountain: The Story of a Vocation The Journals of Thomas Merton, 1939-1941

The Journals of Thomas Merton, 1967-1968: The Other Side of the Mountain

The Other Side of the Mountain: The End of the Journey

The Intimate Merton: His Life from His Journals