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Bishop Brian Cole invites you to join him and Canon Emily Bruner Doane as a group of pilgrims travel to the Sister of Loretto and visit the Abbey of Gethsemani the home of Thomas Merton.

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Hi, I’m Bishop Brian. I want to invite you to join Cannon Emily Bruner Doane and me from Merton’s Kentucky, a contemplative pilgrimage from April 20 through 23rd. We’ll be hosted at Knobs Haven, the Sisters of Loretto’s space near Gethsemani Monastery.

For a few days, we will step out of our noisy, busy lives into a contemplative space. We will worship in the places where Merton worshiped, encounter his writings where he wrote, have a chance to just be together in a separate space apart from our daily lives. You will be a part of this pilgrimage with other pilgrims from East Tennessee, a chance to take that space to encounter the rhythms of a new landscape, and bring that back to home, back to East Tennessee to incorporate what you encounter there into what God’s doing next in your life now.

Please consider joining us. We look forward to this time together. At the end of this video, you’ll see a way to register. Again, grateful for this opportunity, this offering from the School for Contemplation and Discipleship to wander a little far from here to Merton’s Kentucky and to encounter a thin place, a place in the middle of nowhere, where Merton created the center of everything. Please join us.