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MilesChristi

#1620
September 30, 2017, 11:06:17 PM
The Bell Curve
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

#1621
October 03, 2017, 05:35:37 PM
My Lord and my God.

MundaCorMeum

#1622
October 03, 2017, 05:44:15 PM
Quote from: Bernadette on October 03, 2017, 05:35:37 PM
The Club of Queer Trades, by Chesterton.

https://librivox.org/the-club-of-queer-trades-by-g-k-chesterton/

I'm finally jumping on the librivox bandwagon, and I love it!  At the end of the school day, when I just need 30 more minute with my 8th grader, and the littlest ones are starting to get rowdy, I put on a story for them and give them colors and coloring books.  Works like a charm!  Even my middle schoolers will come sit and listen, if they are done with their work. 

Lynne

#1623
October 04, 2017, 03:26:01 AM
Quote from: MundaCorMeum on October 03, 2017, 05:44:15 PM
Quote from: Bernadette on October 03, 2017, 05:35:37 PM
The Club of Queer Trades, by Chesterton.

https://librivox.org/the-club-of-queer-trades-by-g-k-chesterton/

I'm finally jumping on the librivox bandwagon, and I love it!  At the end of the school day, when I just need 30 more minute with my 8th grader, and the littlest ones are starting to get rowdy, I put on a story for them and give them colors and coloring books.  Works like a charm!  Even my middle schoolers will come sit and listen, if they are done with their work.

So many good books there!
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

#1624
October 07, 2017, 09:30:56 AM
Galleys of Lepanto

Interrupting my in progress books for the sake of being festive
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

#1625
October 07, 2017, 11:36:22 AM
Orpheus Emerged by Jack Kerouac.
non impediti ratione cogitationis

Carleendiane

#1626
October 07, 2017, 02:42:19 PM Last Edit: October 07, 2017, 02:47:29 PM by Carleendiane
The Mass of Brother Michel by Michael Kent. Not real far in it but it is about a young man, handsome, wealthy, beautiful in every way, engaged to be married to a lovely woman. He is gored by a wild boar. Loses a hand and a couple fingers on his other. Because of his disformity, he is cast out by his father. Picked up by a priest and superior of a monastery, nursed back to relative health and falls in love with the Mass and religious life.
To board the struggle bus: no whining, board with a smile, a fake one will be found out and put off at next stop, no maps, no directions, going only one way, one destination. Follow all rules and you will arrive. Drop off at pearly gate. Bring nothing.

Prayerful

#1627
October 07, 2017, 03:34:28 PM
Dublin in the 1950s and 1960s: cars, shops and suburbs, Joseph Brady.
Padre Pio: Pray, hope, and don't worry. Worry is useless. God is merciful and will hear your prayer.

Matto

#1628
October 07, 2017, 04:07:52 PM
https://www.tanbooks.com/index.php/saints/saint-bernadette-soubirous.html

I am reading this biography of St Bernadette. I chose to read it because I enjoyed reading the Biography of the Cure of Ars written by the same author. The forum member christulsa kindly gave the book to me as a birthday present. I am still early on in the book. I just read the chapter on the first apparition.
I Love Watching Butterflies . . ..

Prayerful

#1629
October 07, 2017, 04:45:39 PM
Also To Raise the Fallen: A Selection of the War Letters, Prayers and Spiritual Writings of Fr Willie Doyle SJ, compiled edited by Patrick Kenny.
Padre Pio: Pray, hope, and don't worry. Worry is useless. God is merciful and will hear your prayer.

Bernadette

#1630
October 07, 2017, 05:04:42 PM
Quote from: Matto on October 07, 2017, 04:07:52 PM
https://www.tanbooks.com/index.php/saints/saint-bernadette-soubirous.html

I am reading this biography of St Bernadette. I chose to read it because I enjoyed reading the Biography of the Cure of Ars written by the same author. The forum member christulsa kindly gave the book to me as a birthday present. I am still early on in the book. I just read the chapter on the first apparition.
An excellent biography. I have it and the one on the Cure of Ars, but I haven't read the latter yet.
My Lord and my God.

Gardener

#1631
October 08, 2017, 10:23:21 AM
Quote from: Carleendiane on October 07, 2017, 02:42:19 PM
The Mass of Brother Michel by Michael Kent. Not real far in it but it is about a young man, handsome, wealthy, beautiful in every way, engaged to be married to a lovely woman. He is gored by a wild boar. Loses a hand and a couple fingers on his other. Because of his disformity, he is cast out by his father. Picked up by a priest and superior of a monastery, nursed back to relative health and falls in love with the Mass and religious life.

Should check out "Brother Petroc's Return" by SMC
"If anyone does not wish to have Mary Immaculate for his Mother, he will not have Christ for his Brother." - St. Maximilian Kolbe

MilesChristi

#1632
October 16, 2017, 07:41:08 PM
Alcestis
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

#1633
October 17, 2017, 10:20:28 AM
The Clouds
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.

martin88nyc

#1634
October 17, 2017, 11:06:20 AM
Printed material from catholic traditional sphere but I mainly want to focus on the Liturgy now. The Mass by Fortescu. This will help me win the arguments put forth by my Novus Ordo friends who rarely know a thing or two and won't even listen to what I have to say.
"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
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