"More than anyone else I have ever know, Merton was "Everyman"; he was extraordinary aware that his life was in some way not just his own, even as he lived with exceptional courage the unique truth of his own inner being... Tom is still very much alive in the Lord and continues to speak to us in a living way."

From the foreword. M. Basil Pennington.

 

In this engaging guide, M.Basil Pennington takes us on a retreat with Thomas Merton in Merton's own Kentucky hermitage, reading his writtings on the spiritual life, praying the hours, caring for the birds, on the front porch.

This is the place where Merton found greater silence and solitude than was possible for him within the walls of the Monastery. Pennington fills this eloquent introduction to Merton with Photographs taken in and around the hermitage

 

M.Basil Pennington is currently resides at St. Joseph's Abbey in Spencer, Massachusetts.