C.S. Lewis Chronology

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We’re currently going through “Surprised By Joy” at the moment in our book club and I wanted to assemble a workable chronology for the events of C.S. Lewis’ life and the years in which he published…

1898 – Born in Belfast (November 29th)

1905 – Family moves to “Little Lea”

1908 – Mother (Flora Lewis) dies

1910 – Attends Campbell College

1911 – Attends Cherbourg House, Malvern

1913 – Enters Malvern College

1914 – Begins tutoring with W.T. Kirkpatrick in Surrey

1917 – Starts at University College, Oxford

1918 Wounded in action

1919 – Spirits in Bondage: A cycle of lyrics

1923 – Graduated from Oxford University

1925 – Hired as a don in English

1926 – Dymer

1929 – Father (Albert Lewis) dies

1929 – Becomes a theist

1931 – Becomes a Christian

1933 – The Pilgrim’s Regress

1936 The Allegory of Love

1938 – Out of the Silent Planet

1939 Rehabilitations and Other Essays

1939 The Personal Heresy

1942 – The Screwtape Letters

1942 – A Preface to Paradise Lost

1943 – Perelandra

1945 – That Hideous Strength

1945 – The Great Divorce

1949 – The Weight of Glory

1950 – The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

1951 – Prince Caspian

1952 – The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

1952 – Meets Joy Davidman

1953 – The Silver Chair

1954 – The Horse and His Boy

1954 – Hired as Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English at Cambridge University

1954 – English Literature in the Sixteenth Century Excluding Drama

1955 – Surprised By Joy

1956 – Marries Joy Davidman in a civil ceremony

1957 – Marries Joy Davidman in an Anglican ceremony

1958 – Reflections on the Psalms

1960 – The World’s Last Night and other essays

1960 – Studies in Words, The Four Loves

1961 – An Experiment in Crticism

1961 – A Grief Observed

1963 – Lewis dies at home (November 22nd)

1964 – Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer

1964 – Poems

1964 – The Discarded Image: An introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature

1966 – Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories

1966 – On Stories: And other essays on literature

1966 – Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature

1967 – Letters to an American Lady

1970 – God in the Dock: Essays on Theology and Ethics 

1977 – The Dark Tower and Other stories

1979 – They Stand Together: The Letters of C.S. Lewis to Arthur Greeves

1980 – The Weight of Glory (Expanded version)

1985 – Boxen: The Imaginary World of the Young C.S. Lewis

1985 – C.S. Lewis’ Letters to Children

1991 – All My Road Before Me: The Diary of C.S. Lewis, 1922-1927

1994 – Letters of C.S. Lewis

Fiat Award 2019

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The San Diego diocese will be giving me an award next month:

The San Diego Young Adult Office is pleased to announce David Bates as one of our FIAT AWARD recipients for 2018! David will be honored at the Annual Christmas Gala on December 15th.

David Bates was born in England where he worked as a software engineer. In his search for adventure, he moved to the United States over ten years ago, living in Washington DC, Seattle & finally settling in San Diego.

While David continues to work in IT, he is also a Catholic speaker, presenting at events around the country on Scripture, Church History & Evangelization. His talks can be found on his blog, RestlessPilgrim.net, & on the podcast Theology With An English Accent.

An active member of the San Diego Young Adult community since 2010, David has been involved in many different ministries at parish level, such as playing guitar for Our Lady of the Rosary Lifeteen Mass & leading the JP2 Group at St. John the Evangelist for several years. He is now a member of Holy Angels Byzantine Catholic Church where he is a choir member & cantor.

David has also served at Diocesan level, as a member of the Diocesan Pastoral Council & the Young Adult Commission, the group which inaugurated many San Diego traditions including the Annual Diocesan Young Adult Mass. David maintains the SDYAM Podcast which contains recordings of all the San Diego Theology On Tap talks. He orchestrated the “Daughters of the King” gala events & helped organize retreats for the Goretti Group. For fun, David enjoys dancing & has taught salsa & swing lessons at many youth & young adult church events.

Recently David has been pouring most of his time into the podcast, “The Eagle and Child” where, with his co-host Matt, he unpacks the works of C.S. Lewis, the Christian apologist & author of the Chronicles of Narnia. David also hosts a monthly book club where Lewis’ works are discussed at a local coffee shop. In addition to leading monthly Taize prayer evenings and a running group, he also organizes, as part of The Finer Things Club, outings to the theatre, the Symphony & other cultural events. He is currently writing the final chapters of his 1st book, The Table of the Word, a guide to starting and leading a Parish Bible study.

My pastor put an announcement in the parish bulletin on Sunday. As you may guess, he has a sense of humo(u)r about my being English…

Music Monday: One Day

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Wondered what Matt Redman is doing these days? Here’s a song released this year, One Day:

One day You’ll make everything new, Jesus
One day You will bind every wound
The former things shall all pass away
No more tears

One day You’ll make sense of it all, Jesus
One day every question resolved
Every anxious thought left behind
No more fear

When we all get to heaven
What a day of rejoicing that will be
When we all see Jesus
We’ll sing and shout the victory

One day we will see face to face, Jesus
Is there a greater vision of grace
And in a moment, we shall be changed
On that day

And one day we’ll be free, free indeed, Jesus
One day all this struggle will cease
And we will see Your glory revealed
On that day

TOT: Truth

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October 25, 2018: Mari Pablo @ St. Elizabeth Seton Catholic Church

About the speaker: Mari grew up in a Hispanic family in Miami. She graduated from Franciscan University with a double major in theology and psychology has her master’s in theology from the Augustine Institute. She has worked in ministry for over 15 years. She is passionate about St. John Paul II’s Theology of the Body, and was recently featured in Ascension Press TOB programs. Mari has a deep love for food but an even greater love for Christ and is dedicated to helping others encounter him.

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