St. Mary's Orthodox Bookstore: Merton & Hesychasm: The Prayer of the Heart & the Eastern Church

St. Mary's Orthodox Bookstore: Merton & Hesychasm: The Prayer of the Heart & the Eastern Church: "Thomas Merton was Roman Catholic and a member of one of Catholicism's strictest monastic orders. Nonetheless, throughout his religious life one sees the remarkable influence of Christian traditions best preserved within the Eastern Orthodox Church: iconography, the Jesus Prayer, and the apophatic spiritual path linked with Mt. Athos and Sinai. He treasured the sayings and stories of the Desert Fathers and was familiar with the Philokalia."