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.

The Faces of Conversion

 

For our next meeting, which will be on Tuesday, August 16, we will read Evelyn Waugh's classic Brideshead Revisited.  

The Church's Newest Blessed on the Relationship of Faith and Reason

For our next session (Tuesday, June 7 at 7:45pm), we will read Blessed John Paul's 1998 encyclical Fides et Ratio.  The Vatican offers the text for free on their site here.  

 

Thomas More Contra Mundum

For our next meeting, on Tuesday, May 3, we'll be discussing Robert Bolt's play, "A Man for All Seasons."  

Listening to our Patron

Our next text will be a collection of works by St. Alphonsus Liguori, the patron of our parish.  The book is Alphonsus de Liguori: Selected Writings (New York: Paulist Press, 1999).  It is part of the Classics of Western Spirituality series.  The meeting will be Tuesday,  April 5, at 7:45 P.M.

We'll focus the discussion on the "Spiritual Writings" (pp. 57-164) and the works on "Prayer" (pp. 271-314).

Further up the Mountain

After taking a break from Dante's Divine Comedy, we return to the Purgatorio for our next meeting: Tuesday, March 1, at 7:45p.m.

The Confessions

For our next meeting, which will be Tuesday, February 1, at 7:45 P.M., we will be reading St. Augustine's Confessions, particularly books 1-10.  Any translation is fine, but a recommended one would be the Henry Chadwick translation published by Oxford World's Classics.