Thomas Merton Center

Manuscripts in Sub-Section E.1:

Perpetual daily adoration of the Most Blessed Sacrament among the secular priests, The

Item 1 - [01]

First Lines:  Reverendissimo Padre M. Louis Merton. Mi permetto portare a conoscenza della Comunità del Gethsemani

Sub-Type:  Correspondence

Draft:  

Copy Type:  Typescript with holograph signature

Date:  May 08, 1954

Number of pages:  2

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  Italian

Notes:  From Alfonso Carinci, Titular Archbishop of Seleucia, to Merton.

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 6

Item 2 - [02]

First Lines:  Reverendissimo Padre M. Louis Merton. Chiedo scusa del ritardo con cui rispondo all Sua graditissima

Sub-Type:  Correspondence

Draft:  

Copy Type:  Typescript with holograph signature

Date:  October 11, 1954

Number of pages:  2

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  Italian

Notes:  From Alfonso Carinci, Titular Archbishop of Seleucia, to Merton.

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 6

Item 3 - [03] Adorazione Quotidiana Perpetua al SS. Sacramento fra I Sacerdoti Secolari

First Lines:  Carissimo Confratello! Il giorno della presente lettera è particolarmente solenne e significativo.

Sub-Type:  Correspondence

Draft:  

Copy Type:  Typescript with holograph corrections

Date:  November 01, 1954

Number of pages:  4

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  Italian

Notes:  From N.T. Cardinal Gilroy, Archbishop of Sydney, and from Alfonso Carinci, Titular Archbishop of Seleucia, to Dom James Fox.

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 6

Item 4 - [04] LEGIONE EUCARISTICA

First Lines:  Di fronte alle necessità sempre più urgenti della Chiesa, e al dilagare dell pesecuzioni sotto

Sub-Type:  Miscellaneous

Draft:  

Copy Type:  Typescript

Date:  November 01, 1954

Number of pages:  1

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  Italian

Notes:  From N.T. Cardinal Gilroy, Archbishop of Sydney, and from Alfonso Carinci, Titular Archbishop of Seleucia.

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 6

Item 5 - [05] LEGIONE EUCARISTICA

First Lines:  Di fronte alle necessità sempre più urgenti della Chiesa, e al dilagare dell pesecuzioni sotto

Sub-Type:  Miscellaneous

Draft:  

Copy Type:  Typescript

Date:  November 01, 1954

Number of pages:  1

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  Italian

Notes:  From N.T. Cardinal Gilroy, Archbishop of Sydney, and from Alfonso Carinci, Titular Archbishop of Seleucia.

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 6

Item 6 - [06] THE PERPETUAL DAILY ADORATION OF THE MOST BLESSED SACRAMENT AMONG THE SECULAR PRIESTS

First Lines:  Most Reverend Fathers, This day, on which we send you theis actual

Sub-Type:  Transcript

Draft:  1st

Copy Type:  Typescript with holograph corrections

Date:  November 01, 1954

Number of pages:  5

Additional authors/contributors:  Merton, Thomas; translator

Language:  English

Notes:  Translation of letter from N.T. Cardinal Gilroy, Archbishop of Sydney, and from Alfonso Carinci, Titular Archbishop of Seleucia, to Dom James Fox.

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 6

Item 7 - [07] THE PERPETUAL DAILY ADORATION OF THE MOST BLESSED SACRAMENT AMONG THE SECULAR PRIESTS

First Lines:  Most Reverend Father, This day, on which we send you this present letter, is particularly solemn

Sub-Type:  Transcript

Draft:  2nd

Copy Type:  Typescript carbon

Date:  November 01, 1954

Number of pages:  5

Additional authors/contributors:  Merton, Thomas; translator

Language:  English

Notes:  Translation of letter from N.T. Cardinal Gilroy, Archbishop of Sydney, and from Alfonso Carinci, Titular Archbishop of Seleucia, to Dom James Fox.

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 6

Item 8 - [08] THE EUCHARIST LEGION

First Lines:  In front of the necessities, always more urgent of the Church, and of the overflowing persecutions

Sub-Type:  Transcript

Draft:  1st

Copy Type:  Typescript with holograph corrections

Date:  November 01, 1954

Number of pages:  3

Additional authors/contributors:  Merton, Thomas; translator

Language:  English

Notes:  Translation of item from N.T. Cardinal Gilroy, Archbishop of Sydney, and from Alfonso Carinci, Titular Archbishop of Seleucia, to Dom James Fox.

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 6

Item 9 - [09] THE EUCHARIST LEGION

First Lines:  Confronted by the ever more urgent needs of the Church, and by the persecutions which grow on all

Sub-Type:  Transcript

Draft:  2nd

Copy Type:  Typescript with holograph corrections

Date:  November 01, 1954

Number of pages:  2

Additional authors/contributors:  Merton, Thomas; translator

Language:  English

Notes:  2 copies. Translation of item from N.T. Cardinal Gilroy, Archbishop of Sydney, and from Alfonso Carinci, Titular Archbishop of Seleucia, to Dom James Fox.

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 6

Item 10 - [10]

First Lines:  The Most Rev. Archbishop A. Carinci, Secretary of the Congregation of Rites and of the Society

Sub-Type:  Miscellaneous

Draft:  

Copy Type:  Typescript carbon

Date:  no-month no-day, no-year

Number of pages:  1

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  3 copies. 2 with handwritten annotations and notes (with votes for suggested names for the society).

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 6

Item 11 - [11] FIRST LIST OF MEMBERS OF O.L. OF GETHSEMANI TO BE ENROLLED IN THE PERPETUAL ADORATION MOVEMENT

First Lines:  Fr. M. Robert Schindler, priest [-] Fr. M. Mark Vonden Benken, (deacon- priest in Dec. 1954.)

Sub-Type:  Miscellaneous

Draft:  

Copy Type:  Typescript carbon with holograph addition

Date:  November no-day, 1954

Number of pages:  1

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  2 copies.

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 6

Item 12 - [12]

First Lines:  Mon bien cher Reverndissime Pere- Le careme dernier, Fete de l'Annociation, le Saint Pere a voulu

Sub-Type:  Correspondence

Draft:  

Copy Type:  Typescript

Date:  November 08, 1954

Number of pages:  1

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  French

Notes:  From Merton to Alfonso Carinci, Titular Archbishop of Seleucia.

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 6

Item 13 - [13]

First Lines:  Reverendissimo Padre Louis Merton. Nella festa della Maternità di Maria, quando Le ho scritto, non

Sub-Type:  Correspondence

Draft:  

Copy Type:  Typescript with holograph signature

Date:  November 09, 1954

Number of pages:  1

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  Italian

Notes:  From Alfonso Carinci, Titular Archbishop of Seleucia, to Merton.

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 6

Item 14 - [14]

First Lines:  Most Reverend and Dear Archbishop Carinci- This is not yet an adequate reply to your splendid letter

Sub-Type:  Correspondence

Draft:  

Copy Type:  Typescript carbon

Date:  November 20, 1954

Number of pages:  2

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  Regarding the writing of a small book (possibly The Living Bread. From Merton to Alfonso Carinci, Titular Archbishop of Seleucia.

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 6

Item 15 - [15]

First Lines:  Reverendissimo Padre M. Louis Merton. Finalmente posso scriverLe per mandarLe, qui accluse,

Sub-Type:  Correspondence

Draft:  

Copy Type:  Typescript with holograph signature

Date:  August 22, 1955

Number of pages:  2

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  Italian

Notes:  Letter from Alfonso Carinci, Titular Archbishop of Seleucia, to Merton.

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 6

Item 16 - [16] STATUTA ADORATIO QUOTIDIANA PERPETUA SANCTISSIMI EUCHARISTIAE SACRAMENTI

First Lines:  SCOPUS PIAE UNIONIS [-] Piae Unionis finis est ut Adoratio quotidiana et perpetua Sanctissimae

Sub-Type:  Manuscript

Draft:  

Copy Type:  Typescript with holograph corrections

Date:  no-month no-day, no-year

Number of pages:  4

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  Latin

Notes:  Statutes of the Eucharistic society.

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 6

Item 17 - [17]

First Lines:  Circa la parte dell'Introduzione che una persona Le ha suggerito di togliere: Anch'io, alla prima

Sub-Type:  Manuscript

Draft:  

Copy Type:  Typescript

Date:  no-month no-day, no-year

Number of pages:  13

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  Italian

Notes:  

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 8

Item 18 - [18]

First Lines:  A p. 59.

Sub-Type:  Manuscript

Draft:  

Copy Type:  Holograph

Date:  no-month no-day, no-year

Number of pages:  1

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  Italian

Notes:  

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 8

Item 19 - [19] LEGIONE Eucaristica

First Lines:  1. - Origine della Legione Eucaristica. La Legione Eucaristica ha origine dall'Opera

Sub-Type:  Published material

Draft:  

Copy Type:  Printed material

Date:  no-month no-day, no-year

Number of pages:  3

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  Italian

Notes:  

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 8

Item 20 - [20] ADORAZIONE QUOTIDIANA PERPETUA AL SS. SACRAMENTO FRA I SACERDOTI SECOLARI

First Lines:  Lo Spirito Santo, presente e operante nell Chiesa, non cessa di suscitare lungo I secoli opere

Sub-Type:  Published material

Draft:  

Copy Type:  Printed material

Date:  November 01, 1954

Number of pages:  12

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  Italian

Notes:  Sent in an envellope from Archbishop Carinci to Merton.

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 8