{"id":26442,"date":"2011-05-16T17:14:30","date_gmt":"2011-05-16T21:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/05\/paul-quenon-man-trappist-semi\/"},"modified":"2011-05-16T17:14:30","modified_gmt":"2011-05-16T21:14:30","slug":"paul-quenon-man-trappist-semi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/05\/paul-quenon-man-trappist-semi\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Quenon: man, Trappist, semi-hermit, poet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/Br%20Paul%20Quenon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Br Paul Quenon.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2011\/05\/Br Paul Quenon-thumb-200x150-9219.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" \/><\/a>Brother Paul Quenon, OCSO, has been a monk for 52 years. That is, he&#8217;s been trying to live <i>in God and by learning to deepen one&#8217;s capacity to love in community<\/i>; that&#8217;s how he describes life as a Trappist monk.&nbsp;A one-time spiritual son of Father Louis (Thomas Merton), Brother Paul lives a contemplative life &#8211;that is, on the margins of society but at the center of the Church. His witness is a life of proclaiming the beauty of Christ from an abbey of the Strict Observance of Cistercians. <i>Religion and Ethics Newsweekly<\/i>&#8216;s Judy Valente interviewed Brother Paul recently at his home, the Abbey of Gethsemani.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The interview <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/episodes\/may-6-2011\/brother-paul\/8764\/\">can be viewed here<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Brother Paul continues his conversation with some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/episodes\/june-5-2009\/brother-paul-quenon-on-thomas-merton\/1392\/\">extra questions and answers noted here<\/a>. Here he talks about Father M. Louis &#8212; Thomas Merton: his personality and life, his call, the spirituality he lived and taught, and the mystery of what he sought.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brother Paul Quenon, OCSO, has been a monk for 52 years. That is, he&#8217;s been trying to live in God and by learning to deepen one&#8217;s capacity to love in community; that&#8217;s how he describes life as a Trappist monk.&nbsp;A one-time spiritual son of Father Louis (Thomas Merton), Brother Paul lives a contemplative life &#8211;that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/05\/paul-quenon-man-trappist-semi\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Paul Quenon: man, Trappist, semi-hermit, poet<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[1756,1881,1859,1860],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26442"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}