Abbey of Gethsemani Fr Matthew Kelty on Thomas Merton part 1 

Thank you Brother Lawrence for putting this speech out for the public to hear.

Father Kelty would sit in his office a few days a week and would take visitors. You could just go in there and start talking with him. I remember when the market was volatile and I was a stockbroker and he would empathize. I'd much rather talk to him about financial matters than a person in the business. Massachusetts Irish. He loved the poetry of William Butler Yeats. I could see him being a cop in Boston. But his love for God led him to a life far beyond his own expectations. The life of a monk was fully for him.

That was lovely to listen to, a pleasure to listen about a sweet man discribing what another sweet man is like, Rip Thomas & thank you...dharma xx

iT It meant a lot to me to hear Fr. Kelty's talk on the human side of Thomas Merton. I am just getting to know about him through his many writings. He may be changing my life. Again many thanks for the work and love you invested in this talk. G. Wistar

I never met Thomas Merton but I loved him as a Father and as an Older Brother. All of that said is rather grandiose because I was only a Brother Monk in an un official Catholic Contemplative group but we had a liaison Monk with the Carmelite Monastery at Holy Hill Wisconsin. The head of our unofficial group was an amazing man named Michael A. who I consider my true Spiritual Father. All of this is a very verbose way of saying I respected and admired Thomas Merton very much.

Great presentation of the human of a great person and guide.

I had the good fortune of attending some of Fr Matthew's compline talks in person. How inspirational and still missed. Thanks for capturing this wonderful memory.

A GREAT CATECHESIS. Thanks for the free video, true evangelization.

Matthew was my friend, my dear, dear friend.

Fascinating

A remnant of what was a great religious order, destroyed by the reforms of the liturgy, and of religious life, by Vatican II and the documents which flowed from it. Meanwhile, religious congregations are flourishing with abundant young vocations, where the Latin Mass is said, and where monastic traditions are kept fully, and not "updated". The skeleton crews of old, empty reformed monasteries like this one, look back at the giants of the past. This is a tragedy of vast proportions. We need more of the "old" evangelization, and to recognize the staggering failure of the "new" evangelization, which has not brought a new springtime to the Church, but rather a cruel winter. Shame on those who brought on these reforms, and shame on the people who went along with them. It's time to wake up.