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Thomas Merton's "The Quickening Of St. John The Baptist"

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In today’s poem Thomas Merton, 20th-century author and mystic, comes to an understanding of his monastic vocation through a contemplation of John the Baptist’s prenatal gymnastics. Happy reading.



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