Comments for Me and Gethsemani Abbey, Ten Years Later at http://www.thecatholicthing.org , comment 1 to 13 out of 13 comments http://www.thecatholicthing.org Tue, 21 May 2013 16:17:08 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/me-and-gethsemani-abbey-ten-years-later.html#comment-7921 Beautiful essay Austin... xoxooo - Pamela Keogh Wed, 31 Aug 2011 07:00:59 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/me-and-gethsemani-abbey-ten-years-later.html#comment-7906 I wanted to join the Carthusians after high school in 1963, so I wrote the Charterhouse in Vermont. They wrote back telling me to go to college and learn more Latin and Greek. In college I met a young woman who became my wife. I am now an ordained deacon. God had other plans for me than the Carthusians but I still pray that he will reserve a prie-dieu for me in heaven. - HC Sun, 28 Aug 2011 18:22:28 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/me-and-gethsemani-abbey-ten-years-later.html#comment-7901 You are a good writer and trenchant public policy analyst...but most of all you have a great wife with a good sense of humor and a much more tolerant view of alienated affections than my own wife would allow. The defense of monogamy requires a fence around the imagination that allows neither new fantasy nor past memories the light of publishing. Say you are sorry to the Mrs. and please continue your reporting on the internationalization of the sexual revolution in the hijacked language of civil rights. - drpence Sat, 27 Aug 2011 15:12:32 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/me-and-gethsemani-abbey-ten-years-later.html#comment-7894 Beautiful story. A similar thing happened to me. I wasn't attracted to a particular order yet, but I was quite set on becoming a sister when I met my husband. While I want to give my life to God, I came to the understanding that I can live for God either as a sister or a married woman. We all live for God and we can all have that mystical union with God regardless if we're religious or married. - Bethanie Ryan Fri, 26 Aug 2011 12:42:53 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/me-and-gethsemani-abbey-ten-years-later.html#comment-7893 Beautiful post. Am a young man and am going through a similar experience. Pray for me, please. - Ignacio Fri, 26 Aug 2011 09:29:59 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/me-and-gethsemani-abbey-ten-years-later.html#comment-7892 Ah, Gethsemani ... I've always known the Genius of women, but Gethsemani helped my respect for men grow in many new ways. I spent many, many hours there, also. How I miss it. - Debbie Fri, 26 Aug 2011 08:46:17 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/me-and-gethsemani-abbey-ten-years-later.html#comment-7891 Enlightened self interest! - Yezhov Fri, 26 Aug 2011 08:17:32 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/me-and-gethsemani-abbey-ten-years-later.html#comment-7890 Beautifully written ! - Ray Hunkins Fri, 26 Aug 2011 06:35:45 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/me-and-gethsemani-abbey-ten-years-later.html#comment-7886 Austin, this is a beautiful piece about how our Lord works through our ordinary longings and ordinary circumstances to bring us to the place He wants for us, which is the place where we find our truest happiness and best possibilities for holiness here on earth. Thank you much. - Dave Fri, 26 Aug 2011 02:25:50 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/me-and-gethsemani-abbey-ten-years-later.html#comment-7885 Enough about us. Now tell us about yourself. - Manfred Fri, 26 Aug 2011 01:57:43 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/me-and-gethsemani-abbey-ten-years-later.html#comment-7884 Who the h*** is Susie Vasilov??? Just kidding. - Cathy Ruse Fri, 26 Aug 2011 01:31:30 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/me-and-gethsemani-abbey-ten-years-later.html#comment-7882 You passed over the bourbon fudge for their cheese? You need more time meditating (and possibly confession). - Michael Seaman Thu, 25 Aug 2011 23:53:42 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/me-and-gethsemani-abbey-ten-years-later.html#comment-7881 I experienced the exact thing at Hew Mellray Abbey, outside of Des Moines in 1971, and found if possible to say, the most idyllic life of contemplation and mystery and beauty of the Mass, in a Great Sunday Larin Mass complete withe the Dinging of Gregorian Chant, I wish that for men thinking of the Priesthood, the experience Merton expresses in Seven Srorrey Mountain I miss to this day, my children now 31 and 28 are very haappy I chose not to become amongst the most religious and trully loving men of God. Thank you for having better luck in publishing! - JoeMcCarthy Thu, 25 Aug 2011 22:32:41 +0100