@BrianZahnd @Stu0Miller 3/ Before a report, context. Cultured, cosmopolitian, worldly and, by then, righteously dechurched, my deliberate surrender to life as a penniless, peripatetic mendicant almost 30 years ago, proceeded to expose me to modes of significance and order I could never have anticipated.
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Copy of tweet: I first encountered Merton, in earnest, when I was sheltered by a stranger, long ago. It transpired my host’s Merton library was extensive and, in the years I spent as a houseless, walking mendicant, I would return to pause a few days with Father Louis. @UniteThePoor
@CarlMcColman Antinomian heresy, but I say go with the books! Not least for the ability to turn the photograph sideways and check your shelves out! Similar experience, as a wandering mendicant, years ago. I'd walk into hosts' houses, head turned sideways, eyeing spines. Treasures, everywhere.
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