Silent Life Jim Lantos Contributor(s): Jones

Contributor(s): Jones

This book will help you answer these questions and serve as a guide as you walk down this new and unfamiliar path

Gama offers a promising way forward by looking back

Through stories and recipes nearly lost to time

Silent Life Jim Lantos Contributor(s): JonesThomas Merton wrote The Silent Life a decade after he took orders. In his Prologue, Merton describes the book as "a meditation on the monastic life by one who, without any merit of his own, is privileged to know that life on the inside . . . who seeks only to speak as the mouthpiece of a tradition centuries old." It is a remarkable work one that combines a lucid and informative description of the nature and forms of monasticism, communal and solitary,