Category: Monasticism

  • Living The Hours

    Living The Hours

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    Anthony Grimley
    in

    Prayer and Life Living the Hours invokes a life lived in terms of ‘hours’. The ‘hours’ are the set times in the monastic day that mark moments of prayer—what is known as the ‘daily office’. For a Christian in everyday life, there is a ‘daily office’ for their use in some church prayer-books; marking moments…

  • A monk either drinks or prays

    A monk either drinks or prays

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    by

    Anthony Grimley
    in

    By Dr Ant Grimley In 2021 I contacted Dr Paul Pearson, Director and Archivist at the Thomas Merton Center, Bellarmine University, to help me identify a quote that I thought was written by Thomas Merton: ‘a monk either drinks or prays.’ He wrote back and said that he has never come across the quote as…