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Lynne

#1740
December 08, 2017, 12:19:29 PM
The Apocalypse of St John by Father E.S. Berry
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"

red solo cup

#1741
December 09, 2017, 07:47:12 AM
Nixon's White House Wars: The Battles that Made and Broke a President and Divided America Forever by Patrick Buchanan. Very good.
non impediti ratione cogitationis

Counter Revolutionary

#1742
December 18, 2017, 06:37:02 PM
Life of Christopher Columbus: Discoverer of the New World by Rev. A.G. Knight, S.J.
https://archive.org/stream/lifeofchristophe00knig#page/n9/mode/1up

I'm over half way through and am very happy with the book so far.
"Invincible ignorance is a punishment for sin." - St. Thomas Aquinas (De Infid. q. x., art. 1.)

Jacob

#1743
December 18, 2017, 06:56:41 PM
Just finished this month's issue of NOR.  Some people are quite pissed at NOR over its comments on the recent statue/monument removal issue.  Fun times!
"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

MilesChristi

#1744
December 22, 2017, 05:27:13 PM
Coriolanus
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

#1745
December 23, 2017, 09:22:48 PM
What's wrong with the world
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

#1746
December 24, 2017, 09:36:56 AM
Be Like the Fox: Machiavelli in His World by Erica Benner.
non impediti ratione cogitationis

Matto

#1747
December 26, 2017, 12:01:24 PM
Henrik Ibsen, An Enemy of the People. Christulsa got it for me as a Christmas present so I thank him. For some reason I thought I would like this play ever since I first heard about it. Now I am finally reading it.
I Love Watching Butterflies . . ..

MilesChristi

#1748
December 26, 2017, 07:46:49 PM
Reflections on the Revolution in France
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.

Lumen Christi

#1749
December 26, 2017, 09:51:06 PM

Lynne

#1750
December 28, 2017, 06:57:57 AM
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"

Lumen Christi

#1751
December 28, 2017, 09:43:02 PM
Quote from: Lynne on December 28, 2017, 06:57:57 AM
How is that?
Wonderful. I highly recommend it.

Matto

#1752
December 30, 2017, 12:02:26 PM
I am now reading The Six Enneads by Plotinus. In choosing this book I was inspired of course by Pon de Replay and also my brother. So far it is difficult reading which I am having trouble understanding and remembering with my broken mind.
I Love Watching Butterflies . . ..

maryslittlegarden

#1753
December 30, 2017, 05:41:01 PM
The Deerslayer.
For a Child is born to us, and a son is given to us, and the government is upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called, Wonderful, Counsellor, God the Mighty, the Father of the world to come, the Prince of Peace

The Curt Jester

#1754
December 30, 2017, 07:40:54 PM
Revolt in the Desert by T.E. Lawrence
The royal feast was done; the King
Sought some new sport to banish care,
And to his jester cried: "Sir Fool,
Kneel now, and make for us a prayer!"

The jester doffed his cap and bells,
And stood the mocking court before;
They could not see the bitter smile
Behind the painted grin he wore.

He bowed his head, and bent his knee
Upon the Monarch's silken stool;
His pleading voice arose: "O Lord,
Be merciful to me, a fool!"
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