Melbourne Chapter in Boronia, Victoria, Australia | Organisation

Melbourne Chapter

Locality: Boronia, Victoria, Australia

Phone: +61 433 389 802

Address: C/o Janssen Apirituality Centre, 22 Woodvale Rd 3155 Boronia, VIC, Australia

Website: www.janssencentre.org/cpmeditation/merton/merton-society-melbourne

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25.01.2022 How important is the present moment?

23.01.2022 Spirit of love and communion, give me grace to understand the mind of Christ. Let me do his will by obedience to the revelation of the Father’s will that all of us be one body. I cannot understand the depths of this mystery. Give me the grace to love it. The Merton Institute for Contemplative Living, Lent and Easter Wisdom From Thomas Merton: Daily Scripture and Prayers Together With Thomas Merton's Own Words

16.01.2022 Our vocation in life is to be in relationship with God. Have you spoken with your friend yet today? Thomas Merton in his book 'New Seeds of Contemplation' says: Our vocation is not simply to be, but to work together with God in the creation of our own life, our own identity, our own destiny....To work out our identity in God.

14.01.2022 "The words 'experience of love' must not be understood in terms of emotional fulfilment, of desire and possession, but of full realization, total awakening - a complete realization of love not merely as the emotion of a feeling subject but as the wide openness of Being itself, the realization that Pure Being is Infinite Giving, or that Absolute Emptiness is Absolute Compassion." Merton, Thomas. Zen and the Birds of Appetite. (New York: New Directions, 1973) 86

05.01.2022 My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end. Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think that I am following your will does not mean that I am actually doing so. But I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you. And I hope I have that desire in all that I am doing. I hope that I will never do anything apart from that desire. And I know that if I do this you will lead me by the right road though I may know nothing about it. Therefore will I trust you always though I may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death. I will not fear, for you are ever with me, and you will never leave me to face my perils alone. Thomas Merton, Thoughts in Solitude

04.01.2022 A Merton Prayer for Today. Justify My Soul "Justify my soul, O God, but also from Your fountains fill my will with fire....Continue reading

03.01.2022 The Dalai Lama met the Trappist monk Thomas Merton at his exiled home at Dharamsala in India in November of 1968. The Dalai Lama was 33 and Merton was 20 years his senior.