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« Reply #730 on: June 15, 2011, 09:48:AM » |
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I'm reading "On Being and Essence" by Thomas Aquinas. After that, I'll read "Cosmos and Transcendence" by Wolfgang Smith and then maybe read his other book "The Quantum Enigma".
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Arun
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« Reply #731 on: June 15, 2011, 07:39:PM » |
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The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine
Which translation? I am currently reading some obscure book called the Pushcart War. I forget the author's name and cannot be bothered goingand looking lol. |
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It is my solemn and firmly held belief that the Cristeros were an entirely unjustified group of egomaniacal sociopaths and that Mexico would be a far better place today had they simply purchased Xbox360 consoles and lived out their ridiculous fantasies via an imaginary fantasy gaming realm Forget your lust for the rich man's gold/ All that you need, is in your soul/ And you can do this, oh baby, if you try/ All that I want for you my son/ Is to be satisfied All that we are is a picture in a mirror, with fancy shoes to grace our feet. All that there is, is a slow road to freedom; Heaven above and the devil beneath. We're all in this thing together, walking a line between faith and fear, this life won't last forever - when you cry I taste the salt in your tears. |
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« Reply #732 on: June 17, 2011, 12:06:AM » |
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"Chronicles of Wasted Time," by Malcolm Muggeridge. He's fun. He's witty and he witnessed quite a lot.. Although raised by socialist father, he wrote, "I knew from a very early age - how I cannot tell - that the New Testament contained the very key to how to live." The book also reminds us that the agents of moral and civic destruction have been in play for quite a while, at least since the early part of the 20th century. A good and thoughtful read by a delightful writer.
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« Reply #733 on: June 17, 2011, 12:22:AM » |
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Flannery O'Connor: Spiritual Writings
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"Frequently the [peacock] combines the lifting of his tail with the raising of his voice. He appears to receive through his feet some shock form the center of the earth, which travels upward through him and is released: Eee-ooo-ii! Eee-ooo-ii! To the melancholy this sound is melancholy and to the hysterical it is hysterical. To me it has always sounded like a cheer for an invisible parade." ~Flannery O'Connor
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« Reply #734 on: June 18, 2011, 01:23:AM » |
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Exegesis on Numbers 11.
But even for a month of days, till it come out at your nostrils, and become loathsome to you, because you have cast off the Lord, who is in the midst of you, and have wept before him, saying: Why came we out of Egypt?
Numerii XI:20
Great stuff!
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Seek the Lord, all ye meek of the earth, you that have wrought his judgment: seek the just, seek the meek: if by any means you may be hid in the day of the Lord's indignation.
Sophonias 2:3
Is the seed as yet sprung up? or hath the vine, and the fig tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive tree as yet flourished? from this day I will bless you.
Aggeus 2:20
For then thou shalt be able to prosper, if thou keep the commandments, and judgments, which the Lord commanded Moses to teach Israel: take courage and act manfully, fear not, nor be dismayed.
1 Paralipomenon 13
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« Reply #735 on: June 18, 2011, 10:09:PM » |
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Finished "Than Man Who Was Thursday" and started "The Everlasting Man," both by Chesterton.
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Sancte Michael Archangele, defende nos in proelio;
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« Reply #736 on: June 19, 2011, 02:53:AM » |
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The Imitation of Christ, Thomas à Kempis.
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St. Kevin, St. Michael, St. Gabriel, St. Raphael, St. Dymphna, and all the Saints of God, Ora Pro Nobis Domine Iesu Christe, Filius Dei, miserere me peccatorem Υπεραγίας Θεοτόκου μας σώσει The man who does not have enough of loving Christ will never have enough of fighting against those who hate Christ. -St. John Chrysostom I thank God that I live in a day when the enemy is outside the Church, and I know where he is and what he is up to. But, I foresee a day when the enemy will be both outside and inside the Church . . . and I pray now for the poor faithful who will be caught in the crossfire. -Bl. John Henry Newman  |
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Queen of the Most Holy Rosary, pray for us.
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« Reply #737 on: June 20, 2011, 06:03:AM » |
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I am currently reading two books as of late.
The Church Teaches: Documents of the Church in English Translation, which I am sure you fine gentlemen and ladies have read numerous times already.
Barbarian Conversion: from Paganism to Christianity. An excellent (if a bit flawed) book on the whys and whows of Western Europe becoming Christian. Very very interesting.
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Hail Mary, full of grace, blessed are thou amongst women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death.
- amen.
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« Reply #738 on: June 20, 2011, 11:35:AM » |
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Barbarian Conversion: from Paganism to Christianity. An excellent (if a bit flawed) book on the whys and whows of Western Europe becoming Christian. Very very interesting.
I have this book on my shelf, but I have not gotten to it yet. May I ask why you find it "a bit flawed"? |
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"And so, Lord, do you, who do give understanding to faith, give me, so far as you knowest it to be profitable, to understand that you are as we believe; and that you are that which we believe." -- St. Anselm of Canterbury (1033-1109)
"But Christianity preaches an obviously unattractive idea, such as original sin; but when we wait for its results, they are pathos and brotherhood, and a thunder of laughter and pity; for only with original sin we can at once pity the beggar and distrust the king." -- G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
"The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist." Baudelaire and Verbal Kint from The Usual Suspects
"I'm a practicing Catholic; I'm practicing until I get it right." Martin Sheen
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« Reply #739 on: June 21, 2011, 03:33:AM » |
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Letters to a Young Calvinist: An Invitation to the Reformed Tradition, by James K.A. Smith
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