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Robert Whalley grew up on a sheep ranch in Northern California and ended up an MYSTERY Anglican priest in Wangaratta, AND Northeast Victoria. In between he was a bit of a hippy, spent far too many years as a Berkeley, MEANING California, graduate student, and worked for twenty years as a university chaplain in San THOMAS MERTON Francisco and Melbourne. He has lectured, taught and led retreats on AND Thomas Merton for the last twenty years and still delights in the way CHRISTIAN Merton's writings opens people to the of 's presence in daily life. His recent writings can be found on his blog: chaplinesque.blogspot.com

with the Revd Rob 2 Smith Street PO Box 181 Whalley Darwin, NT 0801

Phone: 8981 9099 / 0428 315 763 August 2 & 4, 2012 E-mail: [email protected] Christ Church Anglican Cathedral Harbour Room 2 Smith Street, Darwin THOMAS MERTON & 2 August 7.30pm-9.30pm 4 August 1.30pm-5.30pm

CHRISTIAN ZEN "Meditation, Meaning, "Thomas Merton and Mysticism and Mystery" Christian Zen" Over his lifetime, Thomas Merton grew from a Did you ever wonder if there were In a life that sometimes sounds like a conservative and some other openhearted and novel by Evelyn Waugh, conventionally devout Roman openhanded Christian traditions Jack Kerouac, or Ernest Hemingway, around? People like Thomas Merton, Catholic to a holy man Thomas Merton lived and loved life Evelyn Underhill and Richard Rohr with an intensity and on a scale that who found the seeds of the point to contemplative and made him, according to many, one of sacred in everything from meditation that can open you to an the most significant spiritual writers to Zen, who of God that is immediate, of the twentieth century. wrote widely on topics comforting and transformative. This ranging from Cargo Cults to apophatic mystical tradition runs Join us for a day exploring the life Consumerism, who loved deep in with deep of a man who traveled poetry, social justice and jazz connections with spiritual practices around the world to find that the found in and Zen "gate of heaven is everywhere." We music with equal enthusiasm, . will use selections from Merton's who connected the deep writings as parables and koans to wisdom of the contemplative In an increasingly crowded and noisy ignite that sacred that abides in every tradition with a concern for world, a spiritual wisdom practice single moment. the whole world in all its that offers room for silence, surprising diversity. simplicity and the surprise of Grace can help you connect with the sacred Cost: in everyday life. Friday evening: $15.00

Saturday afternoon: $25.00 Join us for a freeform presentation

and conversation on how Thomas Supper/afternoon tea provided. Merton and others found

contemplative practises renewing cheques payable to: their traditions and experience of Christ Church Cathedral the perennial wisdom in their

everyday world. Enquiries: 8981 9099 0428 315 763

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