Thomas Merton was a poet, writer and religious philosopher who used his shed for muchneeded shedthinking.
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The materials with which we build and furnish places for worship are not merely functional. They create an
ReplyDeleteenvironment for liturgy that is either inspiring or insipid, sacramental to specious.
Building Maintenance Merton This essay argues that the classic materials of church architecture and
art?limestone, marble, slate, terra cotta, oak, gold leaf and others?serve the action of the liturgy
better than plastics, polyesters and laminates.