Every Monday we will venture into the thoughts and voices of those in the Christian mystical tradition in five minutes or less!

In this Mystic Monday episode we hear from the Thomas Merton  (January 31, 1915 – December 10, 1968) was an American Trappist monk, writer, theologian, mystic, poet, social activist, and scholar of comparative religion. Today’s selection comes from his work New Seeds of Contemplation.

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Every Monday we will venture into the thoughts and voices of those in the Christian mystical tradition in five minutes or less!

In this Mystic Monday episode we hear from the Pierre Teilhard de Chardin SJ (1 May 1881 – 10 April 1955) was a French idealist philosopher and Jesuit Catholic priest who trained as a paleontologist and geologist and took part in the discovery of the Peking Man. He conceived the vitalist idea of the Omega Point (a maximum level of complexity and consciousness towards which he believed the universe was evolving), and he developed Vladimir Vernadsky's concept of noosphere.

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Every Monday we will venture into the thoughts and voices of those in the Christian mystical tradition in five minutes or less!

In this Mystic Monday episode we hear from the Maximus the Confessor, also known as Maximus the Theologian and Maximus of Constantinople (c. 580 – 13 August 662), was a Christianmonk, theologian, and scholar.

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Every Monday we will venture into the thoughts and voices of those in the Christian mystical tradition in five minutes or less!

In this Mystic Monday episode we hear from the Edward Burrough (1634–1663) was an early English Quaker leader and controversialist. He is regarded as one of the Valiant Sixty, who were early Quaker preachers and missionaries.

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Every Monday we will venture into the thoughts and voices of those in the Christian mystical tradition in five minutes or less!

In this Mystic Monday episode we hear from the Raimon Panikkar (1918–2010), was a Spanish Roman Catholic priest and a proponent of Interfaith dialogue. As a scholar, he specialized in comparative religion. His work largely centers around their synthesis of Christian and Hindu theology.

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Every Monday we will venture into the thoughts and voices of those in the Christian mystical tradition in five minutes or less!

In the tenth Mystic Monday episode we hear from the Saint Bonaventure (1221-1274), born Giovanni di Fidanza, was an Italian medieval Franciscan, scholastic theologian and philosopher.

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Every Monday we will venture into the thoughts and voices of those in the Christian mystical tradition in five minutes or less!

In the ninth Mystic Monday episode we hear from the Sister Thea Bowman (1937-1990) was a Roman Catholic religious sister, teacher, and scholar who made a major contribution to the ministry of the Catholic Church toward her fellow African Americans. She became an evangelist among her people, assisted in the production of an African American Catholic hymnal, and was a popular speaker on faith and spirituality in her final years. She helped found the National Black Sisters Conference to provide support for African-American women in Catholic religious institutes.

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Every Monday we will venture into the thoughts and voices of those in the Christian mystical tradition in five minutes or less!

In the eight Mystic Monday episode we hear from the Wendell Berry, an American novelist, poet, essayist, environmental activist, cultural critic, and farmer. The selections for this episode comes from a his poem Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front..

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Every Monday we will venture into the thoughts and voices of those in the Christian mystical tradition in five minutes or less!

In the seventh Mystic Monday episode we hear from the Meister Eckhart (c. 1260 – c. 1328) who was  a German theologian, philosopher and mystic. The selection for this episode comes from a his poem when I was the forest.

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Every Monday we will venture into the thoughts and voices of those in the Christian mystical tradition in five minutes or less!

In the sixth Mystic Monday episode we hear from the Middle Ages anchoress and mystic Julian of Norwich. The selection(s) for this episode comes from a her work Revelations of Divine Love.

“The soul is preciously knitted to him in its making, by a knot so subtle and so mighty that it is oned into God. In this oneing, it is made endlessly holy. Furthermore, he wants us to know that all the souls which are one day to be saved in heaven without end are knit in this same knot and oned in this oneing, and made holy in this one identical holiness.”

“The love of God creates in us such a oneing that when it is truly seen, no person can separate themselves from another person” 

“By myself I am nothing at all, but in general, I am in the oneing of love. For it is in this oneing that the life of all people exists.” 

and “In the sight of God all humans are oned, and one person is all people.” 

-Julien of Norwich 

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