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Thomas Merton and Dorothy Day were good friends. He admired her life and work, and she visited him on several occasions at the monastery and
We have been discussing saintliness or holiness of late, as a counter measure to the smallness and hatred and pettiness and retribution that marks a
We concluded a three-part meditation on the meaning of saintliness from Leonard Cohen in yesterday’s DM with his definition that a saint is “a balancing
We are meditating on what Leonard Cohen says about saintliness, in his book Beautiful Losers.* Saturday’s DM ended with his observation that Love is at
Buddhist and Jewish musician and sage Leonard Cohen asks the question: What is a saint?* He answers his question this way in his 1966 novel, Beautiful
Evagrius Ponticus, writing in the fifth century, states openly that there is nothing within the person that may keep her from desiring wholeness and that
A contemporary of Saint Dominic, much less renowned than he, but even more radical in her bodily prayer, was Saint Christina, nicknamed “the Astonishing” (1150-1224),
In yesterday’s DM, I continued to share some saints I have interacted with in my life, and invited you to do the same. And in
I am inviting people to meditate on saints they have known. Further saints I have known include the following: Rabbi Zalman Schactner, founder of the
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