Mass for the New Generation – Thomas Merton

Yesterday, I celebrated my Mass for the new generation, the new poets, the fighters for peace, and my novices. There is in many of them a peculiar quality of truth that older squares have driven out of themselves in days of rigidity and secure right thinking. — Thomas Merton, December 9, 1962 (A Year with Thomas Merton: Daily Meditations from His Journals, p. 407)