Wednesday, January 11, 2012

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).