Baptists beware!
This lady is immersed in feminism.
Rejected God as Father.
Relates to God as Mother.
Her beliefs are her own doing, not Thomas Merton’s.
Did you really read the whole story before you posted your comment?
Good post. You’re right. Don’t expect the catholics to get it, but they are not the audience.
The writer of the article you posted apparently does not know about Catholic spirituality or Catholic meditation. His whole first paragraph attributes to Catholcism something which has no place there at all, which is why both Merton and Pennington have been criticized by orthodox Catholics for going too fast into Far Eastern meditation styles.
Had the author read the other writers he mentions on their ideas of prayer, he would have found they would disapprove of his definition of Catholic spirituality just as much as he does.
In Heaven, we will see Catholic Christians and Protestant Christians and all this fuss will be about nothing.
We should stick together and pray for salvation for the non Christians
A warning re: your comment is “do not fail to listen to the voice of the Holy Spirit as He reveals the meaning of Scripture to your mind and spirit in contemplative prayer.”
Mysticism is the search for truth through our emotional, subconscious, right side of the brain. Without including our feelings and emotions we miss half the story.
In the reality of God’s Word; once a Christian, always and forever a Christian. The mysticism seeking Christian is not a Christian, or ex-Christian. You cannot un-learn truth. Many people will claim Christianity and will never be Christians, though the potential is always there for them to truly become, and remain, Christians.
No in-between stopover in Rome?