Thanks for your prayers. In The Book Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton, he relates what he was told when he entered the Abbey of the Gethsemani. These things, I personally discovered, are told to every man wanting to explore the monastic life. The first was "keep the names of Jesus and Mary on your lips at all times." The second was, "You never…
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