Thomas Merton Quotes About Wednesday

Quotes about: Wednesday

• Ash Wednesday is full of joy...The source of all sorrow is the illusion that of ourselves we are anything but dust.

  Thomas Merton

  Dust, Joy, Sorrow

• Even the darkest moments of the liturgy are filled with joy, and Ash Wednesday, the beginning of the lenten fast, is a day of happiness, a Christian feast.

  Thomas Merton

  Christian, Joy, Ashes

  Thomas Merton (2010). “Seasons of Celebration”, p.100, Macmillan

• Nevertheless, the liturgy of Ash Wednesday is not focussed on the sinfulness of the penitent but on the mercy of God. The question of sinfulness is raised precisely because this is a day of mercy, and the just do not need a savior.

  Thomas Merton

  Mercy Of God, Needs, Ashes

  Thomas Merton (1976). “Meditations on liturgy”

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