As we begin Lent and head into Easter, we'll be discussing the following texts on the following dates:

March 7: The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis

April 4: The Dark Night by St. John of the Cross

May 2: A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle

June 6: The Everlasting Man by G.K. Chesterton

The dates and texts for our on-going seminar for the Fall and early Winter are here.  Please note the new day (Thursday).  We will continue to meet at 7:45PM in the Rectory.

Thursday, October 4

By popular acclaim, we will continue to read Peter Kreeft’s redaction of St. Thomas Aquinas’s Summa Theologiae.  For this session we will read Part III: The Nature of God (pp. 71-186) of The Summa of the Summa, edited by Peter Kreeft, published by Ignatius Press.

Thursday, November 1

We will discuss Part VI of Peter Kreeft’s The Summa of the Summa (pp. 267-344).

Thursday, December 6

For this meeting we will discuss Josef Pieper’s classic work, Leisure: The Basis of Culture.

Thursday, January 3

We will discuss John Milton’s Paradise Lost, Books I-VI.

Thursday, February 7

We will complete the discussion of Milton’s Paradise Lost, looking at Books VII-XII.

Summer Reading

This summer, we will be discussing the following works (all meetings on Tuesdays at 7:45PM in the Common Room in the Rectory):

June 5: G.K. Chesterton, St. Francis of Assisi

July 10: Devon Rose, If Protestantism is True: The Reformation Meets Rome (Unitatis Books, 2011)

August 7: St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa of the Summa, edited and annotated by Peter Kreeft (San Francisco: Ignatius Press 1990)

            Chapter 1: Methodology: Theology as a Science (pp. 31-50)

            Chapter 2: Proofs for the Existence of God (pp. 51-70)

            Chapter 3: The Nature of God: Questions 3-13 (pp. 73-133)

            Chapter 6: Epistemology and Psychology (pp. 269-344)

September 11: C.S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength

From Winter to Spring

For our next four sessions we'll be discussing the following:


Tuesday, February 7. Triumph: The Power and the Glory of the Catholic Church by H.W. Crocker III.  We'll read the first half, beginning with the prologue and continuing through chapter 11.


Tuesday, March 6.  We'll continue with Triumph, reading chapters 12 through the epilogue.

Tuesday, April 10. "The Paradiso" from The Divine Comedy by Dante.  Recommended translations include the Ciardi (Norton Press) and the Mandelbaum (Everyman's Library).

Tuesday, May 1. Flannery O'Connor's volume, A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories.  We'll concentrate on the following short stories: "A Good Man is Hard to Find," "The River," "The Life You Save May Be Your Own," "Good Country People," and "A Late Encounter with the Enemy."

All of the meetings will be at 7:45 PM in the Common Room on the second floor of the Rectory (entrance on Wellington Ave. behind the Church).

Chesterton Shorts

Our next meeting will be on Tuesday, January 11 at 7:45PM.  The text that we'll consider will be a collection of G.K. Chesterton's short Fr. Brown mysteries: The Innocence of Fr. Brown.  We'll focus on "the Blue Cross, "The Invisible Man, "The Three Tools of Death," and "The Sign of the Broken Sword."  This volume is available for free for the Kindle or iPad or at Project Gutenberg: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/204

A Reconsideration of Eden

For our next meeting, which will be on Tuesday, November 22, 2011, at 7:45PM, we will be discussing C.S. Lewis's novel, Perelandra.

View from the Peak

For our next meeting, which will be on Tuesday, October 4, at 7:45 P.M., we will be reading Thomas Merton's The Seven Storey Mountain.