@jonmsweeney An exquisite 'flashback moment', that photo! In my years as a 'Jesus-copying' wandering mendicant, one ally's open invitation included relaxed access to the largest private collection of spiritual texts I've ever seen and, with it, Merton, en masse. The path, made by walking.
@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