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For the next few months Merton began to consider Catholicism as something to explore again.

Finally, in August 1938, he decided he wanted to attend Mass and went to Corpus Christi Church located near to the Columbia campus on West 121st Street in Morningside Heights.

Mass was foreign to him, but he listened attentively.

Following this experience, Merton's reading list became more and more geared toward Catholicism.

While doing his graduate work, he was writing his thesis on William Blake, whose spiritual symbolism he was coming to appreciate in new ways.