Seeing the World Through Rinsed Eyes: Irish hermit poetry & Thomas Merton

​Dr. Weis invites us to llook at some early Irish hermit poetry scribbled on sacred manuscripts. Thomas Merton was fascinated with these "graffiti" and their shared vision of a deepening relationship to God, kinship with animals, and the solace of the hermit life. In the second part of the evening, Dr. Weis talks about how to pray with Merton's own poetry: overcoming fear of poetry and seeing the poetic lines with new eyes that invite a deeper encounter with the Divine.