A Quotation from Thomas Merton 1

"Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business and, in fact, it is nobody's business. What we are asked to do is to love, and this love itself will render both ourselves and our neighbors worthy if anything can."  - Thomas Merton

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I love this one.

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Animal Poems's picture

Merton was a vegetarian

Many orders of Catholic monks were originally vegetarian
as were the early Christians, all following the diet of
Jesus

catholicveg.blogspot.com

PETA has recently published an article on why he is
vegetarian by John Dear SJ

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When I think about it, me too...