The Climate of Monastic Prayer

This guide to monastic prayer sometimes called Thomas Mertons final testament to us is now available in a new edition commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of his death. While he wrote it for other monastics all seekers drawn to explore the full dimensions of prayer will be enriched by his words especially as they take on added meaning in todays dizzying world. The climate in which monastic prayer flowers is that of the desert where human comfort is absent where the secure routines of the earthly city offer no support and where prayer must be sustained by God in the purity of faith.