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[Clare]

Manalive, by G K Chesterton

[red solo cup]

The Memoirs of Louis Bouyer

[Kaesekopf]

The Memoirs of Louis Bouyer

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[red solo cup]

The book was very good but kind of challenging to read. Bouyer has a convoluted way of speaking. That combined with it's being translated from the French led me to often reread several previous pages to be sure if he was for or against any particular subject.
He was a Lutheran pastor who converted to Catholicism. He knew Thomas Merton from seminary. Said he was painfully shy. He worked with T.S. Eliot on a journal of religion and philosophy called Dieu Vivant. He was good friends with Tolkein having spent a lot of time in England.
There was also lots of tittle tattle from behind the scenes at Vatican II. Bouyer was always enthusiastic for liturgical reform till he wound up on a committee for that at Vat2. He realized he'd made a terrible mistake when he saw what they wanted to do. He even tried to resign a couple of times but Paul IV wouldn't accept it.
Some of the things were hard to comprehend. At one point there was a serious attempt to remove all the Poles from the list of saints.
Some even considered eliminating Ash Wednesday. When Bouyer referred to Bugnini and his friends he used words such as lunatic and malicious. Bugnini was one of the few who had access to Paul at the time. He would go to Paul and say the cardinals were unanimous on something when in fact they were against it. Then he would go to the cardinals and say that Paul was demanding something the cardinals were against. He played both sides against each other.
Bouyer's contention was that Paul quickly approved everything the council wanted to bring it to a quick end before "the chaos spread".

[Arun]

i picked up a book that has the magician's nephew, lion the witch and the wardrobe, and the horse and his boy for a couple dollars. never read the first one before, reading it with my children. diggory has just rung the bell... wonder what's coming up lol.

[Hannelore]

i picked up a book that has the magician's nephew, lion the witch and the wardrobe, and the horse and his boy for a couple dollars. never read the first one before, reading it with my children. diggory has just rung the bell... wonder what's coming up lol.

What a treat. My aunt got me the set when I was seven. I read them so many times over the years, that I wore them out!

[red solo cup]

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh. Very good.

[Lynne]

Sin Revisited by Solange Hertz, also very good!

[Hannelore]

Slave Narratives: Arkansas, Volume 4. I'm cleaning it up for the Kindle.

[Christina_S]

Just finished A Guide to Elegance by Madame Genevieve Antoine Dariaux, a French fashion expert during the 60s and 70s. The book was first published in 1962, but some of the advice that she gives is pretty well timeless. It covers things like accessories, pearls, hairstyle, and generally, how to be an elegant lady. Pretty good little book.

[Clare]

All For Jesus, by Fr Faber

Read it a few years ago. I like it because it sets the bar lower than Growth In Holiness does!

[MundaCorMeum]

Holiness for Housewives....again.

[queen.saints]

Re-reading the short story Where Love Is by Tolstoy and still don't know how to feel about it.

[Prayerful]

Volume IV of Jonathan Sumption's history of the Hundred Year War Cursed Kings. He is a judge of the UK's Supreme Court, the first I think, and a barrister who charged around 800,000 for a few weeks of work when working as barrister.

[maryslittlegarden]

Mansfield Park