Fiona is 18 today, Ailis was 17 on the 14th, and Tom....how old were you on the 21st?????
Hope all celebrate/celebrated in style!
Friday, August 22, 2008
Sunday, August 10, 2008
Reading material
A few weeks ago I stumbled upon a new looking used book at a local bookstore that piqued my interest. It was about five guys who entered a Carthusian monastery in England in the early 1960s. It's a pretty good read that gives some insight into the mindset and lifestyle of the men who are members of what the author claims is the most austere of all orders of cloistered monks. It's called "An Infinity of Little Hours" and was written by Nancy Klein Maguire. (As an aside, over the past 22 years of raising our children I've heard Jacquie say 50 times if I've heard it once, "I should have been a cloistered nun." She hasn't read the book yet - if she had I'm not sure she'd give up even those toughest child-rearing days for the cloistered life.)
For our birthdays, shortly after starting that book, Bill and Mary gave Jacquie and me a book called "The Holy Longing: The Search for a Christian Spirituality" by Ronald Rolheiser, a Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate priest. I read the first couple chapters of it last night. Wanting to know a little more about the author (who you all may know but who I have never read), I googled him this morning and see that he has a website where he posts a weekly column.
I viewed the archived columns and came upon one he'd written sometime back called "The Secret of a Monk's Cell". That brought me back to the book on the Carthusians. The monk's room in the monastery is called his cell and there were lots of references to those cells in that first book I mentioned.
To get to the point, the Rolheiser column about the monk's cell is good so I am posting the link to it below.
http://www.ronrolheiser.com/columnarchive/archive_display.php?rec_id=408
I know John and Nancy are pretty high these days on Franciscan priest Richard Rohr who I have not yet read much of and who I know little about.
And I know that Fr. Beaver thinks a lot of Peter Kreeft who Nancy has turned many of us on to through her gifts of his books at Christmas.
Does anyone in the family have any current favorite contemporary authors in the Faith development genre whose name or works you'd like to share?
(I have a list of 100 works called "A Lifetime Reading Plan" put out by a bookstore in Washington, D.C., called the Catholic Information Center that I'd be glad to share with any of you who might request it.)
For our birthdays, shortly after starting that book, Bill and Mary gave Jacquie and me a book called "The Holy Longing: The Search for a Christian Spirituality" by Ronald Rolheiser, a Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate priest. I read the first couple chapters of it last night. Wanting to know a little more about the author (who you all may know but who I have never read), I googled him this morning and see that he has a website where he posts a weekly column.
I viewed the archived columns and came upon one he'd written sometime back called "The Secret of a Monk's Cell". That brought me back to the book on the Carthusians. The monk's room in the monastery is called his cell and there were lots of references to those cells in that first book I mentioned.
To get to the point, the Rolheiser column about the monk's cell is good so I am posting the link to it below.
http://www.ronrolheiser.com/columnarchive/archive_display.php?rec_id=408
I know John and Nancy are pretty high these days on Franciscan priest Richard Rohr who I have not yet read much of and who I know little about.
And I know that Fr. Beaver thinks a lot of Peter Kreeft who Nancy has turned many of us on to through her gifts of his books at Christmas.
Does anyone in the family have any current favorite contemporary authors in the Faith development genre whose name or works you'd like to share?
(I have a list of 100 works called "A Lifetime Reading Plan" put out by a bookstore in Washington, D.C., called the Catholic Information Center that I'd be glad to share with any of you who might request it.)
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