Collins, Angela of the Eucharist, Mother, O.C.D.

Mother Angela of the Eucharist; Sr. Angela Collins; Collins, Angela; Sr. Angela of the Eucharist

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Scope and Content

Herein is a highly personal and lively correspondence between good friends and fellow religious. This does not seem to be a complete set of their correspondence. Early letters, such as an original of what became the Cold War Letter, are not in the collection. Mother Angela was often seeking spiritual council through correspondence, which Dom James was opposed to Merton doing. Merton mentions that if she writes the occasional letter clearly marked as "Conscience Matter", it should get through. In much of the correspondence, she reports the struggles in keeping her small community together and asks for advice (sometimes asking a response via audio recording). She later returns to Kentucky from Georgia for a conference Merton holds with contemplative nuns.

Biography

Early in their correspondence, Angela of the Eucharist was a Carmelite Prioress in Louisville, Kentucky. Between 1965 and 1966, she would became Mother Angela, appointed superior of the Carmelite monastery in Savannah, Georgia.

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See also: Cold War Letter #42, published in Witness to Freedom; letters from Merton to Mother Angela in Monks Pond, pp. 133-134, 255-257, 272-273, 323-324, 334-335, 353-355, 358-359, 361, 363-364; and see also a related discussion of Carmelite nuns in the "Antoniutti, Hildebrand, Cardinal." file.

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