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Article: Christian Meditation: Experiencing the Presence of God.(Book review)
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- The Christian Century
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- February 21, 2006
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Christian Meditation: Experiencing the Presence of God
By James Finley. Harper San Francisco, 304 pp., $13.95 paperback.
IN 1961, WEEKS after graduating from high school, James Finley rose one morning before dawn and left a note. In defiance of his father, who had refused to allow him to leave, he boarded a bus for the Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani near Bardstown, Kentucky. There he attended mass, fearful every moment that his father would burst in and thwart his plan.
Over the years Finley's mother and grandmother had guided him in traditional Catholic piety, and by ninth grade he had discovered the writings of Thomas Merton and had begun ...