Discerning Identity “You cannot tell me who I am and I cannot tell you who you are. If you do not know your own identity, who is going to identify you?” — Thomas Merton Who am I? This is a core question that every person asks and answers throughout life. Naming ourselves, seeing the shifting roles we play during our lives, and…
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We are a warm, welcoming & inclusive church in the Anglican tradition. A loving community where all people are invited to grow in relationship with God and one another.
Thomas Merton
Who am I? Thomas Merton once wrote: “For me to be a saint means to be myself. Therefore the problem of sanctity and salvation is in fact the problem of finding out who I am and discovering my true self.” As human beings, in order to be accepted by others, we have a tendency to…
Praying for a Wise Heart The following is a journal entry from Thomas Merton which was the subject of my spiritual reflection for Monday 18th December (titled Praying for a Wise Heart): “This morning I was praying much for a wise heart. I think the gift of this Christmas has been the real discovery of…
Daily Meditation from Thomas Merton’s Journal I’ve been reading “A Year with Thomas Merton: Daily Meditations from His Journals” by Thomas Merton and I wanted to share this quote with you from the meditation for December 9 which is titled The Complexity of Our Real “I”. ‘When I got up it was about thirty degrees…
Daily Meditation from Thomas Merton’s Journal The following is the text of the spiritual reading I did on Wednesday this week: “The Christian faith enables, or should enable, a man to stand back from society and its institutions and realize that they all stand under the inscrutable judgment of God and that, therefore, we can…
‘Living in the Face of Death’ In light of the debate which has surrounded the recent passing of voluntary euthanasia legislation in the Victorian Parliament, I thought this journal reflection from Thomas Merton, which was my daily spiritual reflection for Thursday (9 November), was very timely. “Our great dignity is tested by death—I mean our…
People, Prayer and Patience. “If everything centers on my obligation to respond to God’s call in solitude, this does not mean simply putting everything out of my mind and living as if only God and I existed. This is impossible anyway. It means rather learning from what contacts and conflicts I still have how deep…
Saturday, September 27th – 1958. The following is a quote from Thomas Merton: “It is a bright afternoon: what am I going to do? I am going to work with my mind and with my pen, while the sky is clear, and while the soft white clouds are small and sharply defined in it. I…
Identity Thomas Merton once wrote, “The measure of our identity, of our being (the two are the same), is the amount of our love for God.” In Western society, we often seem to measure our identity by what we do for a living, or by our social status, our success, our wealth, or even by…