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Post by EricH on Jul 17, 2016 16:58:40 GMT -5
I read Franz Werfel's The Song of Bernadette and enjoyed it...I will look at yours:) You'll like it! Pope Pius IX wrote a letter to M. Lasserre congratulating him on his book Our Lady of Lourdes. This one is the sequel, although it contains a good 100+ pages of the same material, and I think it's more interesting because it reveals more about Bernadette. Also the English translation (from the French original) is much better for Bernadette than for Our Lady of Lourdes. M. Lasserre was alive when the events took place and personally interviewed all the main characters. Thanks for the list of condemned authors/books, Eric. Strolling through the list I noticed Voltaire. Just yesterday I was learning about him and his final days on earth. A tragic end. Just goes to show that even the most influential philosophers/free thinkers can't toss God aside in their minds as easy as they would have their readers/followers believe. You're welcome! I was fortunate to escape reading most of those "classics" when I was growing up, and the ones I did read I generally didn't like. They were so boring and they did not seem to have any deep insights into life as one would expect from great books. Thus I was pleased to find out that so many English "classics" are pernicious junk from the Church's point of view, as Orestes Brownson well explains. It is hard to imagine what goes on in the minds of geniuses who are hostile to the Catholic Church -- which describes pretty much all the modern so-called philosophers. St. John Vianney said that a child who knows his catechism knows more than they do.
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Post by Marya Dabrowski on Jul 17, 2016 18:19:00 GMT -5
Right now I'm reading The Downing of Flight TWA 800. Amazingly, I found it in a Free Little Library. Seems there's a fellow conspiracy theorist in my vicinity. It details the take down of passenger airline TWA 800 by the US Navy and subsequent coverup.
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Post by Voxxkowalski on Jul 18, 2016 5:30:00 GMT -5
Right now I'm reading The Downing of Flight TWA 800. Amazingly, I found it in a Free Little Library. Seems there's a fellow conspiracy theorist in my vicinity. It details the take down of passenger airline TWA 800 by the US Navy and subsequent coverup. Make a thread in Principalities and Powers..... be great to get some info.
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Post by Lynne on Jul 20, 2016 18:24:53 GMT -5
I read Franz Werfel's The Song of Bernadette and enjoyed it...I will look at yours:) I have that as an audiobook. I should finish it!
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Post by Marya Dabrowski on Jul 20, 2016 21:51:35 GMT -5
I read Franz Werfel's The Song of Bernadette and enjoyed it...I will look at yours:) I have that as an audiobook. I should finish it! First of all, Hi Lynne! Second, I really enjoyed that book and believe it was very edifying.
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Post by Lynne on Jul 22, 2016 6:12:39 GMT -5
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Post by mundacormeum on Jul 22, 2016 8:44:33 GMT -5
Thank you, Lynne! I so often feel like I have no idea what the role of Catholic woman, mother, and femininity authentically mean. It's so confusing, 1) never having been taught from a young age what it means and 2) being stuck in a society that pretty much scorns true womanhood. Sometimes I think I might be understanding it, then the next, I'm completely lost. It's like I'm finding my way with no map, in the middle off he dark, and no flashlight. I'll definitely take a look at these, as I've been searching for more of that lately
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Post by mundacormeum on Jul 22, 2016 8:45:48 GMT -5
Right now I'm reading The Downing of Flight TWA 800. Amazingly, I found it in a Free Little Library. Seems there's a fellow conspiracy theorist in my vicinity. It details the take down of passenger airline TWA 800 by the US Navy and subsequent coverup. Those Free Little Libraries are so cool! What a neat concept. We have none where I live. Maybe I could get one going......
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Post by Marya Dabrowski on Jul 22, 2016 21:10:29 GMT -5
Thank you, Lynne! I so often feel like I have no idea what the role of Catholic woman, mother, and femininity authentically mean. It's so confusing, 1) never having been taught from a young age what it means and 2) being stuck in a society that pretty much scorns true womanhood. Sometimes I think I might be understanding it, then the next, I'm completely lost. It's like I'm finding my way with no map, in the middle off he dark, and no flashlight. I'll definitely take a look at these, as I've been searching for more of that lately It took me a long time to be comfortable with just being myself. I don't worry so much about pleasing other people or living up to their standards. They don't have a housefull of children, homeschool or try to please God.
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Post by Marya Dabrowski on Jul 22, 2016 21:13:10 GMT -5
Right now I'm reading The Downing of Flight TWA 800. Amazingly, I found it in a Free Little Library. Seems there's a fellow conspiracy theorist in my vicinity. It details the take down of passenger airline TWA 800 by the US Navy and subsequent coverup. Those Free Little Libraries are so cool! What a neat concept. We have none where I live. Maybe I could get one going...... I would love to put in some of my favorite books in there but I'm afraid they'll just be thrown in the garbage. Sometimes I use the romance novels that may be in there to start the campfire.
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Post by mundacormeum on Jul 23, 2016 7:36:20 GMT -5
I started reading this last night. It's great! I'm going to have to get the heard copy eventually.
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Post by Lynne on Jul 23, 2016 17:32:37 GMT -5
I started reading this last night. It's great! I'm going to have to get the heard copy eventually. I love her stuff.
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Post by mundacormeum on Jul 23, 2016 21:54:50 GMT -5
Her style is really enjoyable and relatable.
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Post by Lynne on Jul 25, 2016 7:19:25 GMT -5
Her style is really enjoyable and relatable. There was just a couple of points that she made which I questioned (of course I don't remember right now what they were)... It made me stop and think when she said going over the speed limit was a mortal sin. In the city's neighborhoods, I would agree with her, I wouldn't want to hit a child, or a pet or even a wild animal. But, on the highway, with good road conditions (roads are dry, not raining or snowing) and fairly light traffic, I'm typically doing between 70 - 80 miles an hour.
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Post by Voxxkowalski on Jul 25, 2016 8:47:57 GMT -5
yeah and I suppose its a mortal sin not to pay all taxes no matter how unjust or onerous...ugg. Speedlimits are about rendering to Ceaser type laws....not moral laws unless as you said your reckless and endagering others. This type of scrupelosity makes books like this dangerous for ceryain folks. Mortal sin....speedlimits...bahh!
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