Abbey of Gethsemani--Merton's Home for 27 Years c. JPM 2010

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/27/opinion/27kristof.html?ref=opinion This is a link to an insightful editorial by Kristof in the New York Times on Sister Margaret.

Thomas Merton, who died over forty years ago, is right on target with his assessment of the church today:

It is true that the Lord in the Gospel speaks of His faithful as “sheep,” but that does not entitle us to assume that the liturgy is merely the organized bleating of irrational animals herded together by constraint and trained by an ingenious discipline until they carry out seemingly human actions which they are not capable of understanding. (Seasons of Celebration, 5) The patriarchs would love for us to act like bleating uneducated sheep! Continue reading →