Post by marshamae on Dec 6, 2017 14:41:37 GMT
neuro dear this is for you!
soundcloud.com/onbeing/martin-sheen-thomas-merton-at-advent
and the whole text of Merton's poem
“Into this world, this demented inn
in which there is absolutely no room for him at all,
Christ comes uninvited.
But because he cannot be at home in it,
because he is out of place in it,
and yet he must be in it,
His place is with the others for whom
there is no room.
His place is with those who do not belong,
who are rejected by power, because
they are regarded as weak,
those who are discredited,
who are denied status of persons,
who are tortured, bombed and exterminated.
With those for whom there is no room,
Christ is present in this world.
He is mysteriously present in those for whom
there seems to be nothing
but the world at its worst.”
– Thomas Merton, Raids on the Unspeakable (1966)
soundcloud.com/onbeing/martin-sheen-thomas-merton-at-advent
and the whole text of Merton's poem
“Into this world, this demented inn
in which there is absolutely no room for him at all,
Christ comes uninvited.
But because he cannot be at home in it,
because he is out of place in it,
and yet he must be in it,
His place is with the others for whom
there is no room.
His place is with those who do not belong,
who are rejected by power, because
they are regarded as weak,
those who are discredited,
who are denied status of persons,
who are tortured, bombed and exterminated.
With those for whom there is no room,
Christ is present in this world.
He is mysteriously present in those for whom
there seems to be nothing
but the world at its worst.”
– Thomas Merton, Raids on the Unspeakable (1966)