Meditation and Spiritual Contemplation

Frank Terence McCarthy spent 1961 in Thailand as a company commander in an Army Engineer Construction Battalion living in the jungle 55 miles east of Bangkok near a village called Panoum Sarakham. This was a maturing experience since he was father/mother to 200 troops - half of whom got "Dear Johns." In Thailand, he met the person who probably most made a difference in his life - a Redemptorist missionary priest, Father Ray Brennan (a former photographer for the Chicago Sunday News). He drove ab