Spiritual Quote of the Day (Thomas Merton, on ‘The Heavenly City’)

“Shine with your lamb-light, shine upon the world:

You are the new creation’s sun.

And standing on their twelve foundations,

Lo, the twelve gates that are One Christ are wide as canticles:

And Oh! Begin to hear the thunder of the songs within the crystal Towers,

While all the saints rise from their earth with feet like light

And fly to tread the quick-gold of those streets.”—American Trappist monk, memoirist, and poet Thomas Merton (1915-1968), “The Heavenly City,” in Selected Poems of Thomas Merton (1967)