The texts for our next four sessions will be as follows.  We will continue to meet in the rectory of St. Alphonsus Church at 7:45.  Please note that we will not be meeting in July.

August 1, 2013:

Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman, Parochial Sermons:

            “Holiness Necessary for Future Blessedness”

            “The Immortality of the Soul”

            “The Religious Use of Excited Feelings”

            “The Religion of the Day”

Online versions of these sermons may be found at: http://www.newmanreader.org/works/parochial/volume1/

September 5, 2013:

Flannery O’Connor, Short Stories:

            “Everything that Rises must Converge”

            “Judgment”

            “A Temple of the Holy Ghost”

            “The Turkey”

October 3, 2013:

The Letters of St. Ignatius of Antioch.  St. Ignatius, the third bishop of Antioch, was an early martyr of the Church, dying around the year 100 A.D.  He wrote seven letters to the Churches along his route to Rome.  We will focus particularly on his Letters to the Magnesians, Trallians, and the Romans.

 Online translations of these letters may be found at: http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/ignatius.html

November 7, 2013:

St. Athanasius, The Life and Affairs of Our Holy Father Antony.  This work by St. Athanasius is one of the seminal texts in the development of the Church’s understanding of the spiritual life.

An online translation of this work may be found at (one needs to scroll down a bit; the text begins after the italics with “Athanasius: Life of Antony):

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/vita-antony.asp