flannerywannabe
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« Reply #30 on: June 15, 2009, 08:21:PM » |
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I'm waffling my way through Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel (fascinating but not exactly a beach read) and savoring Paul Claudel's I Believe in God, and trying to decide what fiction to tackle next. The pickings are slim, but I'll probably never force myself through Philip Roth's Everyman if I don't hold off on the library and bookstore trips until I have finished it...
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"God made us to love him. It takes two to love. It takes liberty." - Flannery O'Connor
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Joamy
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« Reply #31 on: June 15, 2009, 08:37:PM » |
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Just going to start Master & Commander.
Ok, so I ditched Master & Commander for now. I'm reading The Good Shepherd's Fold by Anne Cawley Boardman |
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“The Church is a perpetually defeated thing that always outlives her conquerers.”
Hillaire Belloc
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Marc
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« Reply #32 on: June 15, 2009, 09:16:PM » |
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I'm ... savoring Paul Claudel's I Believe in God I Believe in God is definitely a work to savor. The passages compiled in the final section are surely among the most sublime ever penned regarding the condition of our souls in the afterlife. Part of my signature comes from that book. ;) At the moment, I'm going back and forth between something called Saints Behaving Badly (not at all deep, but enjoyable enough, and educational for someone who learned almost nothing about the saints growing up) Ha! I've read that one! It's one of the, maybe, 30-35 titles on Catholicism available at our local library (and that's counting the multiple copies of Hitler's Pope and Papal Sin). |
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reverence, which one cannot
withhold, is
laid on lightly, with terror--as if
one were holding a dandelion back
into the sun.
~ A.R. Ammons
"When I depart from the city, and stretch out my hands, the sounds will cease." Exodus 9:29
Ζω τόσα χρόνια σ`αυτό τον κόσμο και δε γνώρισα ούτε ένα κακό άνθρωπο παρά μόνο τον εαυτό μου.
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Domini Canis
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« Reply #33 on: June 16, 2009, 08:22:AM » |
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Reading a book on the history of rock, a book on the development of the calendar, and a book on the crusades.
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« Reply #34 on: June 16, 2009, 12:10:PM » |
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Well, I finished The Serpent's Tale and I was much more impressed with the first book than with the sequel. I just finished Peter Kreeft's Socrates meets Machiavelli which was excellent, though I do question some of Dr. Kreeft's assumptions regarding Machiavelli. I'll be starting Peter Brown's biography of Augustine once I finish the latest issue of First Things.
God, I love having summers off... ;D
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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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Pilgrim
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« Reply #35 on: June 16, 2009, 12:12:PM » |
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Reading Chesterton's biography of St. Thomas Aquinas.
Have you read his biography on Francis? Ignatius puts out a great edition with both works in one book. |
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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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matthew_talbot
Putting the "fun" in disfunctional
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« Reply #36 on: June 16, 2009, 03:04:PM » |
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The Glorious Cause by Jeff Shaara , Amish Society by John Hostetler and The biography of St. Kevin
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Are you worried about Obama and his gun grabbers? FIGHT BACK!!! JOIN THE NRA TODAY!!!: http://membership.nrahq.org"God console thee and make thee a saint. To arrive at the perfection of humility four things are necessary: to despise the world, to despise no one, to despise self, to despise not being despised by others." - Quote from Servant of God Matt Talbot |
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Domini Canis
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« Reply #37 on: June 16, 2009, 05:15:PM » |
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Reading Chesterton's biography of St. Thomas Aquinas.
Have you read his biography on Francis? Ignatius puts out a great edition with both works in one book. Haha. That's the exact book I'm reading! My wife gave it to me last Christmas. |
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« Reply #38 on: June 16, 2009, 10:25:PM » |
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I'm thumbing through a copy of Mary, My Hope borrowed from the honor library at the adoration chapel, or should that be Adoration Chapel?  I've also been reading the last few PD James Dalgliesh mysteries - they've become repetitive, but I must read them all. No, don't ask.  As for poetry, it's Eliot again. |
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Melita
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« Reply #39 on: June 17, 2009, 03:48:AM » |
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Reading 'A History of Private Life', volume 2. Excellent work, basically a compilation of information about the way Medievals lived. Lavishly illustrated, o'course.
And I've started re-reading Mina Loy, mostly because she's been so ignored her work is still fresh. I used to love reading Modernist stuff, but after getting it critiqued to you the holes (chasms...) become too glaring to ignore. Still, Prufrock is sweetness.
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“I am a Catholic not like someone else would be a Baptist or a Methodist, but like someone else would be an atheist.” - Flannery O'Connor
Then again I asked him, "supposing the Pope looked up and saw a cloud and said 'It's going to rain', would that be bound to happen?"
"Oh, yes, Father."
"But supposing it didn't?"
He thought a moment and said, "I suppose it would be sort of raining spiritually, only we were too sinful to see it."
Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited
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