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  • The Sign of Jonas

  • By: Thomas Merton
  • Narrated by: Tom McElroy
  • Length: 14 hrs and 58 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (2 ratings)

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The Sign of Jonas

By: Thomas Merton
Narrated by: Tom McElroy
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Begun five years after he entered the Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani, The Sign of Jonas is an extraordinary view of Merton's life in a Trappist monastery, and it serves also as a spiritual log recording the deep meaning and increasing sureness he felt in his vocation: the growth of a mind that finds in its contracted physical world new intellectual and spiritual dimensions.

©1953 the Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani; Copyright renewed 1981 by The Trustees of the Merton Legacy Trust (P)2024 Tantor
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Fabulous book, unbearable delivery

This is an excellent selection of Merton's Journals from his initial years at the monastery, and is a marvelous read - this is my 3rd pass. The narrator, however, would be nearly unbearable were the text not so edifying. In addition to a harsh, halting and brash tone, the mispronunciations of Ecclesial and Latin terms was just funny at first: half way through it's really frustrating. How can the editors not make any attempt to prepare these readers for their task? "Vi-a-TI-cum"? "AU-gu-stine"? "Pas-CHAL" time (later in the book it's "PASH-cal")? The list goes on and on, and it's both unprofessional and really, really irritating.

UPDATE: Listening in the shower this morning, the reader pronounced "Ki-ree" for "Ky-ri-e" (no I'm not kidding). I'm going to return this to Audible and pull out my hard copy.

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