The Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani, Kentucky, U.S. Thomas Merton, O.C.S.O. (January 31, 1915 - December 10, 1968) was an Anglo-American Catholic writer and mystic. The Merton Prayer In Thoughts in Solitude, Part Two, Chapter II consists of fifteen lines that have become known as "the Merton Prayer." MY LORD GOD, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of ..