What are you currently reading?

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MilesChristi

The world is charged with the grandeur of God.
    It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;
    It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil
Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod?
Generations have trod, have trod, have trod;
    And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;
    And wears man's smudge and shares man's smell: the soil
Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod.

And for all this, nature is never spent;
    There lives the dearest freshness deep down things;
And though the last lights off the black West went
    Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs —
Because the Holy Ghost over the bent
    World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.

Bernadette

Out of the Silent Planet, by C. S. Lewis. I've never read it before. Just got the trilogy for $1.99 on kindle, if anyone's interested.
My Lord and my God.

MilesChristi

The world is charged with the grandeur of God.
    It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;
    It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil
Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod?
Generations have trod, have trod, have trod;
    And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;
    And wears man's smudge and shares man's smell: the soil
Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod.

And for all this, nature is never spent;
    There lives the dearest freshness deep down things;
And though the last lights off the black West went
    Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs —
Because the Holy Ghost over the bent
    World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.

Sempronius

Got a liking for historians that witnessed and took part in the events which they write about. So now I'm reading The History of the Rebellion by Edward Hyde 1st earl of Clarendon

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Hyde,_1st_Earl_of_Clarendon

And The Memoirs of Philippe de Commines, Lord of Argenton
Containing the Histories of Louis XI, and Charles VIII. Kings of France and of Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy.


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_de_Commines

Michael Wilson

I read a great history on King Louis XI and his reign; he was a genius; he had to deal with his crazy cousin Charles the Bold and with constantly rebelling nobles; he outmaneuvered all of his adversaries, more though his diplomacy than through war.
"The World Must Conform to Our Lord and not He to it." Rev. Dennis Fahey CSSP

"My brothers, all of you, if you are condemned to see the triumph of evil, never applaud it. Never say to evil: you are good; to decadence: you are progess; to death: you are life. Sanctify yourselves in the times wherein God has placed you; bewail the evils and the disorders which God tolerates; oppose them with the energy of your works and your efforts, your life uncontaminated by error, free from being led astray, in such a way that having lived here below, united with the Spirit of the Lord, you will be admitted to be made but one with Him forever and ever: But he who is joined to the Lord is one in spirit." Cardinal Pie of Potiers

Bernadette

My Lord and my God.

MilesChristi

Threefer:

Complete Sonnets and Poems - Shakespeare

Britannica Guide to Particle Physics

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The world is charged with the grandeur of God.
    It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;
    It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil
Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod?
Generations have trod, have trod, have trod;
    And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;
    And wears man's smudge and shares man's smell: the soil
Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod.

And for all this, nature is never spent;
    There lives the dearest freshness deep down things;
And though the last lights off the black West went
    Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs —
Because the Holy Ghost over the bent
    World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.

MilesChristi

The Sailor who Fell Out of Grace with the Sea
The world is charged with the grandeur of God.
    It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;
    It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil
Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod?
Generations have trod, have trod, have trod;
    And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;
    And wears man's smudge and shares man's smell: the soil
Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod.

And for all this, nature is never spent;
    There lives the dearest freshness deep down things;
And though the last lights off the black West went
    Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs —
Because the Holy Ghost over the bent
    World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.

red solo cup

Prince Philip: The Turbulent Early Life of the Man Who Married Queen Elizabeth II by Philip Eade.
non impediti ratione cogitationis

Gardener

Quote from: red solo cup on November 14, 2018, 05:10:00 AM
Prince Philip: The Turbulent Early Life of the Man Who Married Queen Elizabeth II by Philip Eade.

He's like the George W. Bush of the Royal Family. Dude says insane things all the time apparently:
https://imgur.com/gallery/ESUu3
"If anyone does not wish to have Mary Immaculate for his Mother, he will not have Christ for his Brother." - St. Maximilian Kolbe

Jacob

Quote from: Gardener on November 14, 2018, 09:16:17 AM
Quote from: red solo cup on November 14, 2018, 05:10:00 AM
Prince Philip: The Turbulent Early Life of the Man Who Married Queen Elizabeth II by Philip Eade.

He's like the George W. Bush of the Royal Family. Dude says insane things all the time apparently:
https://imgur.com/gallery/ESUu3
I wouldn't compare him to Bush 43, who really did talk like there was something wrong mentally at times.  Phil on the other hand is just a man of his time who has no internal filter when he tells it like it is.
"Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game because they almost always turn out to be—or to be indistinguishable from—self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time."
--Neal Stephenson

Prayerful

Philip holds some fairly extreme views on population control, which suggests it was for the best he remained a sort of meme prince.

Reading, or re-reading at some long remove, The Bones of St Peter: The First Full Account of the Discovery of the Apostle's Tomb. First published in the early 80s, and I read it originally some time later, now re-reading a republication which was a parochial book of the month.
Padre Pio: Pray, hope, and don't worry. Worry is useless. God is merciful and will hear your prayer.

mikemac

Quote from: Jacob on November 14, 2018, 09:47:06 AM
Quote from: Gardener on November 14, 2018, 09:16:17 AM
Quote from: red solo cup on November 14, 2018, 05:10:00 AM
Prince Philip: The Turbulent Early Life of the Man Who Married Queen Elizabeth II by Philip Eade.

He's like the George W. Bush of the Royal Family. Dude says insane things all the time apparently:
https://imgur.com/gallery/ESUu3
I wouldn't compare him to Bush 43, who really did talk like there was something wrong mentally at times.  Phil on the other hand is just a man of his time who has no internal filter when he tells it like it is.

The Mountbatten's (Battenberg) are quite the crew.  Before I realized that it was the IRA that assassinated his uncle, Louis Mountbatten I figured it may have been a Canadian that did the job, seeing Louis was central in the planning and promotion of the raid on the port of Dieppe, that had casualties of almost 60%, the great majority of them Canadians.
Like John Vennari (RIP) said "Why not just do it?  What would it hurt?"
Consecrate Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary (PETITION)
https://lifepetitions.com/petition/consecrate-russia-to-the-immaculate-heart-of-mary-petition

"We would be mistaken to think that Fatima's prophetic mission is complete." Benedict XVI May 13, 2010

"Tell people that God gives graces through the Immaculate Heart of Mary.  Tell them also to pray to the Immaculate Heart of Mary for peace, since God has entrusted it to Her." Saint Jacinta Marto

The real nature of hope is "despair, overcome."
Source

Jacob

The Biafra Story by Frederick Forsyth
"Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game because they almost always turn out to be—or to be indistinguishable from—self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time."
--Neal Stephenson

Christina_S

On Managing Yourself (Harvard Business Review).
"You cannot be a half-saint; you must be a whole saint or no saint at all." ~St. Therese of Lisieux

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