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ABBEY OF G ETHSEMANI

TRAPPI ST, KENTUCKY

May h,l960

Dear Victor

Please forgive the red ribbon, I am trying to use it up. I am just
writing to say that I imagine that you must be getting along with the book and
will pretty soon be ready to come down with some of it, no doubt. And with this
very fine weather there could be no better time. Apart from May 17 and 22-23
any day excent a Sunday would be all right with me as far as I can see, hough
I am getting more and more involved in little things that seem to take time.

How is Saturday the lhth for you -- I just picked that because I think Carolyn
likes Saturdays better, mi if I am not mistaken.

Rome has intensified the training schedule for novices and students in
all the Orders and that means I have more classes, but it does not affect our
getting together since you usually arrive about ll ohclock. By lunch time I am
free.

I find I have been keeping a large humber of library books for a long
time, so I am sending someback, since I do not think I will bebable to finish
them now. thh them Carolyn will find a book on the priesthood which is an
extra we have here, so I am donating it to the library from the monastery. I don't
know whether or not it is especially good, but it belongs toa reputable series.
I A lady in Boston wroteme a most kind and enthusiastic letter about the
Qesert Fathers book, someone had just presented her with the last available
copy. She is a friend of a friend of yours from “exington who works in the
Widener library.

Last Sunday no fewer than fifty seven presbyterian men from Lexington
showed up here and I gave them a talk which they seem to have enjoyed. They were
from the Second Presbyterian Church. It seeus I will be a little more occrpied wit
work like this in the future, but mostly with rather Special groups. I still
prefer the "retreat movement" that includes spiritual conversations-— and artistic
ones_— with you and Carolyn. —

I have unearthed a man called Isaac of Ninive, a Syrian hermit, of whom
you might like to consider a few excerpts: again along the lines of the other
two books. But I hesitate to suggest this because I really fear that you will
be expending all your efforts on me alone and this would be really wrong.

In any case, I will be looking forward to hearing from you. Perhaps this
letter may even cross with one of yours in the mail. God,bless you both.

Very cordially in Christ

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