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.\,- - i 1' i 1 i "I)i WW" the new orzleans Review LOYOLA UNIVERSITY A Iournal of Literature Vol. 5, No.2 & Culture Published by Loyola University table of contents of the South New Orleans articles Thomas Merton: Language and Silence/Brooke Hopkins .... Editor: $ Jesus and Jujubes/Roger Gillis . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. Marcus Smith I v fiction Managing Editor: Tom Bell The Nuclear Family Man and His Earth Mother Wife Come to Grips with the Situation/Otto R. Salassi .... .. .... .. .. .... .. .. Associate Editors: The Harvesters/Martha Bennett Stiles .. .. .. ... .. ....... Peter Cangelosi Beautiful Women and Glorious Medals/Barbara de la Cuesta .. Iohn Christman Dawson Gaillard interviews Lee Gary Link in the Chain of Feeling/An Interview with Anais Nin . .. .. .. Shael Herman A Missionary of Sorts/An Interview with Rosemary Daniell . .. .. I‘. HID BLISS ' 0 QQI{Q photography Advisory Editsrs= Portfolio/Ed Metz .. .... ..... ..... ..... .... ... ... ... 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(S.]., p. have made becomes a guide to the world.”‘ If human beings progress, they have done so by aspiring to live any spiritual his vOiCe attained The paradox was that, despite his vow of silence, according to standards set by predecessors who have and that for all his desire to escape the WQrld'5 rhaiQr grew louder and louder, 5Qme rhea5Ure Qt ehllghtehrheht Eaeh Qt deeply inyolyed in it than founders, "the World," he had become more religions offers models to follow: first, the lives of the had made the best-seller list, thQ5e ever. Merton was a monk who 5Ueh a5 CQhtUClU5» the Buddha, Chrl5ti r‘/tQharhmeti figure who could not make an “appearance.” a5 eQ'hDletelY eXeh"'DlarY2 ahd a public WhQ5e behaVlQr l5 bQrtraYed U5 an enQrmQu5 amount figures, bod- indeed, Thomas Merton has told then a host of lesser if slightly more accessible his autobiography, his iournaisy his note- today, in our own largely about himself, in hisattvas, saints and wise men. Even wrQte books and the yery personal essays and poems he we have such models as C-handi, Bonhoeffer secular culture, have been a throughout his life. Why? Of course, there must Martlh Luther Klh8- Ohe Qt the WaY5 We 8rQW a5 hdrhah ahd about himself, and to communicate his ll\’e5 5eerh WQrthY Qt deep need to talk berh85 l5 bY dl5eQ\’erlh8 Qther5 WhQ5e the community observations and feelings to others, for are tdlhlled rh a deep Way, ahd their ideas, lrhltattQh/ beeaU5e theY his superiors wisely such communication involves. This need U5 tQ reallle Qt" QWh 5el\/e5 rhQre WQrd5 ahd deed5 allQW encouraged him to realized when, much against his will, they tUllY- ThQma5 r‘/tertQh Wa5 Qhe Qt the5e- his writing during the middle and late forties. And hQt l5 a trrel<Y dUe5tlQh- He continue Whether he Wa5 aWare Qt thl5 Qr like its illustrious real autobiography, The Seven Storey Mountain, CQUr5ei tQ beeQrhe a 5athti tQ attaih 5Qrhe Wt5hed/ Qt Confessions, was written in part as be hQ dde5tlQh predecessor, Augustine's rhea5Ure Qt 5blrttdal DerteettQh- Ahd there bah him_ Yet an iiaet of therapy/’3 to out his old self behind he viewed his life as in some profound way symbolic. that recording his experience in so many onward, he lived with Merton's motives for At least from the time of his conversion he forms obyiousiy go much further than that Like Augustine, seriousness and deliberation, like a prophet, whose the utmost that they might too wrote with hisfellow men in mind, in order WQrldi a5 a rhQhl<i he eQh5ldered hlrh5elt rQle th the rhQderh understanding of themselves in the he had Wrttteh lh the come to a more complete tQ have lhherlted FQr "the DrQPhet/l understand- course of reading about his experience, a deeper "i3rQlQ8Ue” tQ The 5/'8" Qr/Qha5/ been like ing of God in the process. The greatest solitaries have Montaigne, that: Augustine and other fathers of the Church, :Cii?§g:V£$3i;V3‘(:'iJg§k'j5 ‘Z3:3i:!gFiiSiiOat:fg:r(;:jd§twat their solitude Kierkegaard, Thoreau and Merton. lt is the fruit of Ofchrist Every monkiin Whom Christ lives’ and in Whom While 5tlll be able tQ 5hare thelr exbertehee Wlth Qther5 are fulfilled, is a witness and a to therefore all the prophesies alone, mysterious, and inaccessible to our mistakes are eloquent remaining themselves, sign of the kingdom of C-od. Even of all, and the end. It is a great gift, possibly the greatest mQrethah We ea" l<hQW-2 to prac- demands enormous emotional and spiritual resources light of one’s tiCe_ Every moment, then, has significance in the this? One is astounded by his and CQh" How did Merton achieve ml55lQhi Whreh l5 tQ bear Wlthe55/ thrQU8h l3>raYer by it, the eXtra_ ultimate eaoaeity to giye Without being diminished templation, to the reality of Christ’s love, and to the outlook on the world he seems to have achieved by GQd ha5 Created But a5 he Weht Qh lh ordinary 8QQdhe55 Qt the WQrld complete sense of his own un- e\/eh rhQre the end of his life, his almost the 5arhe Pa55agei he telt that there Wa5 5Qrhethth8 of the beauty of the universe around him. ealllhgi that he had been importance, and 5i3eelal abQut hi5 QWh ber5Qhal his finest creation; ln a real sense Thomas Merton's life was a5l<ed tQ dQ rhQre? 99 _Richard Morris ->-.¢1.».,¢et¢a<v.-»-~,-»_»‘ it is what, in the end, we admire most about him, and what had wanted to be all along. For as his life so amply and beauti- draws us to him beyond anything else. And so we want to see fully demonstrates, we must first lose ourselves in God to dis- if we cannot realize some of the same potential in ourselves. Cover who We really are. Only then, as a result of our willing- The