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MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Chrysostom, Fr., O.C.S.O.

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Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1968

Volume: 2 item(s); 2 pg(s)

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Biography

Fr. Chrysostom was a Trappist monk at Mepkin Abbey in Moncks Corner, South Carolina.

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SeriesDateTypeTo/FromFirst LinesPubFull TextNotes
 1968/02/05 TLSto MertonGreetings from the Southland! Please excuse this intrusion into your solitude. The main purpose of  asking Merton's thoughts on allowing brief oral exchanges among the novitiate / professed monks have had this policy for four months / assigned reading for novices - Peifer's <i>Monastic Spirituality</i> / should there be communications between novices and the professed?
 1968/02/21 TL[c]from MertonI don't know if I can really help you much in your question about the novices' practice of silence.  Merton somewhat out of touch with community as hermit - thinks current practice, which he supports, is free communications at certain times and places but limits on when and where this is - communications between novices and professed should be very limited / silence like the past but without artificiality
        

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