Forthcoming Events.

• Thomas Merton - Artist and Monk. 19th - 21st September, 2008.
• Thomas Merton and the Camera as a Tool for Contemplation. Saturday 25 October 2008.
• Falling into Silence: An Exploration of Thomas Merton's Relevance for our Time. Sunday 23 November 2008.
• Commemorating Merton. Wednesday 10th December, 2008.

Esther de Waal.

Venue: Westminster Cathedral Hall, Ambrosden Avenue, London SW1.

Suggested donation £20. Refreshments provided, but please bring a packed lunch.

Advance booking recommended. How to book.

Esther de Waal lives in a small cottage on the Welsh/English border. After studying and teaching history at Cambridge University, she married, had four sons, and moved to Canterbury, where she lived in a house that had been part of the medieval monastic community. She leads retreats, lectures, and travels widely. Her major interests are the fields of the Benedictine and Celtic traditions.

Suggested donation £10. Refreshments provided.

Advance booking recommended. How to book.

James Finley PhD has been a student of contemplative prayer for more than 20 years, six of which he spent at the Trappist Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky, where Thomas Merton was his spiritual director. He leads retreats and workshops throughout the United States and Canada, attracting men and women from all religious traditions who seek to live a contemplative way of life in the midst of today's busy world. He is also a clinical psychologist in private practice with his wife in Santa Monica, California.