Briefly noted.Lent is an appropriate time to commit to some spiritual reading. Recommendations: * Contemplation Contemplation Compleat Angler, The Izaak Walton’s classic treatise on the Contemplative Man’s Recreation. [Br. Lit.: The Compleat Angler] Thinker, The sculpture by Rodin, depicting contemplative man. in Action by Richard Rohr Richard Rohr O.F.M. (born in 1943 in Kansas) is a Franciscan priest, writer, and internationally known inspirational speaker. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1970. Rohr was the founder of the New Jerusalem Community in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1971 and the and friends (Crossroad, 2006) * Finding Sanctuary: Monastic Steps for Everyday Life by Abbot Christopher Jamison, from the TV series The Monastery (Liturgical li·tur·gi·cal also li·tur·gic adj. 1. Of, relating to, or in accordance with liturgy: a book of liturgical forms. 2. Using or used in liturgy. Press, 2006) * The Elements of Prayer by Joe B. Jewell (New World Library, 2006) * Love: A Glimpse of Eternity by Ernesto Cardenal Ernesto Cardenal Martínez (born January 20, 1925) is a Nicaraguan Catholic priest and was one of the most famous liberation theologians of the Nicaraguan Sandinista Regime, which he later renounced. He is also famous as a poet, and he still writes. (Paraclete Press, 2006) * The Many Marks of the Church by William Madges and Michael J. Daley (Twenty-Third Publications, 2006) |
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