Jonathan Montaldo speaks on Contemplative Prayer and Protest

Free PublicTalk and"Meet the Author" Event
Mon. Nov. 5, 2007, 7:30 pm
NEW LOCATION due to Vancouver Public Library labour dispute (TMSC programs will resume at VPL in January)

Co-sponsored by the Thomas Merton Society of Canada and Vancouver School of Theology

Location: VST Epiphany Chapel, 6050 Chancellor Boulevard, Vancouver, BC
Speaker: Jonathan Montaldo, Associate Director of the Merton Institute for Contemplative Living, Louisville, Kentucky.
Topic: Choosing to Love the World: Thomas Merton on Contemplative Prayer and Protest

"We and our world interpenetrate. If anything, the world exists for us, and we exist for ourselves. It is only in assuming full responsibility for our world, for our lives and for ourselves that we can be said to live really for God."

Speaker Jonathan Montaldo is Associate Director of the Merton Institute for Contemplative Living in Louisville, Kentucky and director of Bethany Spring, The Merton Institute Retreat Center in Trappist, Kentucky. He has edited and co-edited numerous Merton volumes including The Intimate Merton, A Year with Thomas Merton and an eight-volume resource for small group dialogue entitled Bridges to Contemplative Living with Thomas Merton. Jonathan's audio books include his reading The Intimate Merton, Contemplative Prayer and No Man Is An Island. Sounds True will publish his edition of Choosing to Love the Word: Thomas Merton on Contemplation in March 2008.

Meet the Author/Speaker...
Join author/speaker Jonathan Montaldofor coffee and conversation before the public talk from 6:30 - 7:00 pm in the Thomas Merton Reading Room, H. R. MacMillan Theological Library at the Vancouver School of Theology, 6000 Iona Drive (UBC Campus).

Info: 604-669-2546 or email tmsc@telus.net or see www.merton.ca