About the Author
One of Thomas Merton’s former novices, Brother Paul Quenon, OCSO, entered the Abbey of Gethsemani at 17, studied theology at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago, and taught and lived at a monastery in Nigeria. After five decades of life at the Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky and ten published books of poetry, his A Matter of the Heart mingles reflections, meditations, insights, and wanderings with outward experiences in nature, community, and sketches of monks-saintly, comical, or strange-poetic moments, for a multi-colored, diverse, and surprising display of what it is like to live “an enclosed life.
