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Pheo

#1500
June 07, 2017, 05:23:16 PM
The Life of Blessed Margaret Mary.  Almost done this one.  The saints were awesome.  Also makes me feel like a bit (who am I kidding...a lot) of a spiritual wimp.
Son, when thou comest to the service of God, stand in justice and in fear, and prepare thy soul for temptation.

LouisIX

#1501
June 07, 2017, 07:21:45 PM
IF I speak with the tongues of men, and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

Pheo

#1502
June 07, 2017, 07:24:02 PM
LouisIX reading about Louis IX.  Yes.  Looks like an interesting one too.
Son, when thou comest to the service of God, stand in justice and in fear, and prepare thy soul for temptation.

MundaCorMeum

#1503
June 07, 2017, 07:27:22 PM
Daughter #2 and I read about LouisIX in school today.  I wish my brain could still absorb information like those kids can!  For the life of me, I have no idea what we read  :-\

Lynne

#1504
June 08, 2017, 10:49:42 AM
Quote from: MundaCorMeum on June 07, 2017, 07:27:22 PM
Daughter #2 and I read about LouisIX in school today.  I wish my brain could still absorb information like those kids can!  For the life of me, I have no idea what we read  :-\

Oh good! I thought it was just me...
In conclusion, I can leave you with no better advice than that given after every sermon by Msgr Vincent Giammarino, who was pastor of St Michael's Church in Atlantic City in the 1950s:

    "My dear good people: Do what you have to do, When you're supposed to do it, The best way you can do it,   For the Love of God. Amen"

MilesChristi

#1505
June 09, 2017, 05:08:59 PM
The Silmarillion
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.

Matto

#1506
June 09, 2017, 06:09:11 PM
I just started reading "The Sayings of the Desert Fathers".
I Love Watching Butterflies . . ..

Christina_S

#1507
June 09, 2017, 09:40:03 PM
The Priest of The Fathers by Edward Heston.
"You cannot be a half-saint; you must be a whole saint or no saint at all." ~St. Therese of Lisieux

Check out the blog that I run with my husband! https://theromanticcatholic.wordpress.com/
Latest posts: Why "Be Yourself" is Bad Advice
Fascination with Novelty
The Wedding Garment of Faith

Pheo

#1508
June 10, 2017, 12:51:28 PM
Moved onto Medieval Essays by Christopher Dawson.
Son, when thou comest to the service of God, stand in justice and in fear, and prepare thy soul for temptation.

MilesChristi

#1509
June 13, 2017, 11:38:36 AM
The Republic
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.

Christina_S

#1510
June 15, 2017, 01:56:36 PM
The Singer Trilogy by Calvin Miller.  ::)
"You cannot be a half-saint; you must be a whole saint or no saint at all." ~St. Therese of Lisieux

Check out the blog that I run with my husband! https://theromanticcatholic.wordpress.com/
Latest posts: Why "Be Yourself" is Bad Advice
Fascination with Novelty
The Wedding Garment of Faith

Prayerful

#1511
June 15, 2017, 04:30:47 PM
Robert K Massie's two books on Peter the Great (read) and Catherine the Great (reading). Very much a secular, liberal outlook, of the old sort, for he called for a boycott of retailers refusing to sell Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses. Now Moslems can do no wrong for the Left.
Padre Pio: Pray, hope, and don't worry. Worry is useless. God is merciful and will hear your prayer.

martin88nyc

#1512
June 15, 2017, 07:37:19 PM
Today I picked up a book by Flannery O'Connor called "Wise Blood". this is not my cup of tea but I just started reading so I might give it a chance.
"These things I have spoken to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you shall have distress: but have confidence, I have overcome the world." John 16:33

MilesChristi

#1513
June 16, 2017, 06:59:07 PM
Just finished Out of the Silent Planet

Either returning to The Republic, or beginning Black Mischief
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.

Maximilian

#1514
June 16, 2017, 07:32:10 PM
Quote from: MilesChristi on June 16, 2017, 06:59:07 PM
Just finished Out of the Silent Planet

Either returning to The Republic, or beginning Black Mischief

Are you going to finish the C.S. Lewis trilogy?

Can't go wrong with one of Waugh's funniest.
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