"We are travellers…not yet in our native land" – St. Augustine
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During the Middle Ages, books were so precious that books started to be inscribed with excommunications, much like those of the Ecumenical Councils, against those who either stole or failed to return to their owner. Here’s an example I recently found:
This book belongs to St. Mary of Robert’s Bridge; whosoever shall steal it or sell it, or alienate it from this house, or mutilate it, let him be anathema maranatha, Amen.
I should definitely start doing this when I lend out books…
It’s time for a quick reading list update. So far this year, I’ve finished the following books
The Screwtape Letters The Great Divorce , Mere Christianity, Problem of Pain – C.S. Lewis
The Desert Fathers: Sayings of the Early Christian Monks – Penguin Classics
Every Man’s Journey – James P. Campbell
Hold Me Tight – Dr. Sue Johnson
After Jesus – Reader’s Digest
St. Francis of Assisi – G.K. Chesterton
Jesus of Nazareth – Pope Benedict XVI
Weaving The Web – Tim Berners-Lee*
Roots of the Reformation – Karl Adam*
The Confessions of St. Augustine – St. Augustine
Imitation of Christ – Thomas à Kempis
This month I finished:
Philosophy For Dummies – Thomas Morris
Importance of Being Earnest – Oscar Wilde
I am currently reading:
Jesus Among Other Gods – Ravi Zacharias
…which leaves the following books still unread:
The Path of Life – Cyprian Smith OSB
Introduction to the Devout Life – St. Francis de Sales
Rediscover Catholicism – Matthew Kelly
Everlasting Man – G.K. Chesterton
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It’s time for a quick reading list update. So far this year, I’ve finished the following books
The Screwtape Letters The Great Divorce , Mere Christianity, Problem of Pain – C.S. Lewis
The Desert Fathers: Sayings of the Early Christian Monks – Penguin Classics
Every Man’s Journey – James P. Campbell
Hold Me Tight – Dr. Sue Johnson
After Jesus – Reader’s Digest
St. Francis of Assisi – G.K. Chesterton
Jesus of Nazareth – Pope Benedict XVI
Weaving The Web – Tim Berners-Lee*
Roots of the Reformation – Karl Adam*
It’s time for a Reading List update and, thanks to my vacation and several long plane rides, I have much progress to report…
A while back I wrote some thoughts about the new Les Miserables movie. It might surprise some that the book by Victor Hugo once appears on the Church’s “List of Forbidden Books”. Catholic Lane has the explanation:
