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Arun
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« Reply #110 on: October 02, 2009, 03:38:AM »
Eternal Maxims by S. Alphonsus de Ligouri (also known as Preparation for Death)
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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



Quote from: Lynyrd Skynyrd
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

Quote from: Old Crow Medicine Show
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 #111 on: October 02, 2009, 10:56:AM »
Tammy Tell Me True.  Could have been written yesterday.
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TheQueenMother
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« Reply #112 on: October 02, 2009, 11:31:AM »
"Motherhood and Family", from the Intergrity Magazine; "This Is Your Tomorrow And Today -Man's Share In the Resurrection", by Fr. Raymond; "Louder and Funnier", by P.G Wodehouse; and (I don't know if this counts, because IrishCowboy is reading it to me about every night) " Pagent Of LIfe" by Owen Francis Dudley. It seems like I always have at least two books going at once.
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"..the hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world" -William Ross Wallace
augusztina
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« Reply #113 on: October 03, 2009, 06:32:AM »
The Sinners Guide by Venerable Louis of Granada.  So far so good.  An excerpt:

This then, (gratitude) the first of God's benefits is the foundation of all the others, for all other benefits presuppose existence... He is no less rigid in requiring our gratitude than He is magnificent in bestowing His benefits;  and this is an additional proof of His love, for our gratitude results in no advantage to Him, but enables us to profit by the favors we have received, and thus merit other graces from His infinite goodness.
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Melita
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« Reply #114 on: October 03, 2009, 08:59:AM »
"Doctor Faustus" and Fragmenta Tragica Papyracae. Neither by choice, but so far so good.
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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


Avalonik
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« Reply #115 on: October 03, 2009, 10:13:AM »
"The Snarkout Boys & the Baconburg Horror" by Daniel Pinkwater
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« Reply #116 on: October 04, 2009, 12:00:PM »
It's been a long time since I read Faustus. I may have to dig that one out again.
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Credo
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« Reply #117 on: October 04, 2009, 03:53:PM »
I'm giving up on The Confessions for now. It was fairly easy reading until Augustine started talking about Genisis. In its place I'm digging into Ahmed Rashid's Descent into Chaos. It's about the resurgence of the Taliban and the American debacle in SE Asia.
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« Reply #118 on: October 04, 2009, 07:17:PM »
Agreed about Confession. You really need a companion to the work. Find the Cliff's Notes, it helps a lot. I rarely read old of complex literature without them.
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Melita
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« Reply #119 on: October 05, 2009, 10:45:AM »
Quote from: WhollyRoaminCatholic
It's been a long time since I read Faustus. I may have to dig that one out again.

It's pretty great.... and spooky. When I was reading the bit where he signs his soul away (by moonlight, cos we'd had a storm and the lights were off), a cloud suddenly covered the moon. I like Mephistopheles' bits best.
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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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