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Hi Manny,
Welcome. I know you not just from Catholic Thought, but I think we've run across each other on the internet as well - perhaps on Ricochet. In any case, I understand exactly what you mean by the difficulty of reading for too many book clubs - I had to stop participating there for exactly that reason. I hope you are able to find the time to join us for the discussion in February.
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This is how the slippery slope begins, too many bookclubs and not enough time :-)
I've been thinking back and forth about joining next month's discussion. You joining might just t..."
I hope you do, Kerstin, it would certainly add to our conversation.
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Hi Peter,
I look forward to your joining us in our reading and discussion. Welcome.
John wrote: "Manny wrote: "Hi, a number of you probably know me from one of the other Catholic book clubs. I noticed that you will be reading In This House of Brede, and I have wanted to read that for a while. ..."You’re on Ricochet John? Yes that is me. Send me a PM either here or Ricochet to let me know who you are there. I should have time this month for Brede. I’m looking forward to it.
Thank you all for your kind welcome.
Hello Manny How are you. I am Happy that at finally you had decided to be One of us. For me the Manny's addition It is One of the best news for Catholic Book Club. I cheer up a lot for This *hugs*.
Fonch wrote: "Hello Manny How are you. I am Happy that at finally you had decided to be One of us. For me the Manny's addition It is One of the best news for Catholic Book Club. I cheer up a lot for This *hugs*."Thank you Fonch! That's better than a warm welcome. That's a great welcome.
The praises in your honor in This case are absolutely worthy of you :-).
Frances wrote: "Welcome, Manny. You bring so much to a group.Hi, Peter. I hope everyone gets a chance to read the article “The Loss of Spiritual Herd Immunity” in the CatholicStand you provided. It’s brilliant. ..."
You're awesome, thanks for the kind welcome!
John wrote: "Peter wrote: "Hi Catholic world, my name is Peter Darcy. Happy feast of Thomas Aquinas to all! I'm an editor/columnist at CatholicStand.com and creator of SacredWindows.com. I LOVE the Catholic Fai..."Thanks John. Great group so far!
“The Loss of Spiritual Herd Immunity” is an important article, Peter. I’m so glad you shared it with us. I hope everyone gets a chance to read it. We are living in that moment now. The article explains so much.
Thinking of In This House of Brede I remembered a book I read a long time ago. Exile Ends in Glory is a biography written by Thomas Merton, the life of Mother Mary Berchmans, O.C.S.O. In telling the story of the French Cistercian nun who became the foundress of the first house of the Order in Japan, Merton illuminated the stages of the interior life clearly, deftly, beautifully. I don’t know if the book is available any more, but if anyone finds it, it is a real treasure. All these years later, I haven’t forgotten the authenticity of Mother Berchman’s commitment, nor Merton’s depiction of it.
Hi everybody!!! I'm Elisabetta from Italy. My favorite authors are: Chesterton, De Wohl, S. Augustine, S. Thomas Aquinas. I'm sorry for my terribile english. Thank for suggest me this group
Elisabetta wrote: "Hi everybody!!! I'm Elisabetta from Italy. My favorite authors are: Chesterton, De Wohl, S. Augustine, S. Thomas Aquinas. I'm sorry for my terribile english. Thank for suggest me this group"Hello Mrs. Elisabetta it is a big honor that you were a member of Catholic Book Club, although Mrs. Elisabetta had not said she wrote excellent books about the situation of the Catholics during the Tudor period time (unfortunatelly i think that her books only are in Italian and i would like to read them). I knew to Mrs. Sala thanks to the Maria Elvira Roca Barea`s book Hispanophobia and black Legend.
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Welcome to the group Elisabetta. Your English is fine. Hopefully you will be able to join us in reading some of our books, at least those translated into Italian.
John wrote: "Elisabetta wrote: "Hi everybody!!! I'm Elisabetta from Italy. My favorite authors are: Chesterton, De Wohl, S. Augustine, S. Thomas Aquinas. I'm sorry for my terribile english. Thank for suggest me..."Personally if i can say something i am very happy that Elisabetta has joined to Catholic Book Club and i wish her books were translated to English and spanish. Do not worry Mrs. Sala my English is much more terrible than your english :-).
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Y tu ingles es mejor que mi español.
John wrote: "Fonch wrote: "John wrote: "Elisabetta wrote: "Hi everybody!!! I'm Elisabetta from Italy. My favorite authors are: Chesterton, De Wohl, S. Augustine, S. Thomas Aquinas. I'm sorry for my terribile en..."At least this sentence is absolutely right in my language, John :-). There is not any grammar mistake in this sentence.
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Es un frase muy corto. :-)
John wrote: "Fonch wrote: "At least this sentence is absolutely right in my language, John :-). There is not any grammar mistake in this sentence."Es un frase muy corto. :-)"
In this case there is only a mistake with the article, but it is not bad the right sentence it would be "Es una frase muy corta" the spanish is more difficult than the English language but the spanish people the Professor Alfonseca is an exception we are not very good learning foreign languages :-(.
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Es un frase muy corto. :-)"
In this case there i..."
As I hit send I wondered if perhaps frase wasn't feminine. I think many if not most nouns ending with e are feminine, right? And of course, as it is feminine it requires una/corta. This is one of my most common mistake in Spanish. I had forgotten the Spanish word for sentence, so I looked it up in a dictionary - I just double-checked and the dictionary (Spanish-English//English-Spanish) does not tell me the gender of the word, but if I look up frase it does tell me that it is a feminine noun.
Yes the gender is really important in Spain. I thougght that it would be more difficult the Subjuntive modal verb. I have nightmares with a lot of english grammars overall with the phrasal verbs 😱.
Hi. I am Crystal. I am a Mother, Grandmother, Wife, part time Social Service Worker. I enjoy reading. Some recent Christian books I have read are; The Cure D’Ars Today, Unoffendable, Blessed are the Misfits, and St Augustines The Confessions. I have several books started or in waiting. Lately My time has been absorbed with podcast. I need to get back to reading and exercising my brain and soul. So here I am joining your book club. Thanks for having me.
Welcome Crystal. I Hope that you find good readings here :-).
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Welcome, Crystal, I hope you are able to join us for In This House of Brede.
Elisabetta wrote: "Hi everybody!!! I'm Elisabetta from Italy. My favorite authors are: Chesterton, De Wohl, S. Augustine, S. Thomas Aquinas. I'm sorry for my terribile english. Thank for suggest me this group"Hi Elisabetta. Oh don't worry about your English. Mio italiano è peggio del tuo inglese. What part of Italy are you from?
Frances wrote: "Thinking of In This House of Brede I remembered a book I read a long time ago. Exile Ends in Glory is a biography written by Thomas Merton, the life of Mother Mary Berchmans, O.C.S.O. In telling th..."This may not be the proper thread to discuss this, Frances, but Exile Ends In Glory: The Life Of A Trappistine, Mother M. Berchmans is here on Goodreads.
Hello, everybody! Got an invite from Fonch, so decided to join the group. I'm another non-Catholic member - an Evangelical pastor, actually - but love learning from Catholic tradition. (Preaching currently through the Apostles' Creed and finding St. Thomas Aquinas' Expositio in Symbolum Apostolorum and the Catechism to be two of the more helpful resources.) The Church Fathers and medieval chroniclers tend to be my favorite readings. My reading load for sermon research tends to be pretty high, so I can't always fit as much alongside it as I'd like, but it's good when I can!
As a Wheaton College graduate who was gradually drawn in a more liturgically-rich direction and came into the Catholic Church via the charismatic renewal (where people talked about Jesus like my Baptist friends but had this spirituality/devotion I'd been taught was idol-worship!!), sounds like you are on a path to becoming a "fallen-away evangelical" by way of the Church Fathers. We are legion! God bless you!
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Welcome, Jonathan. I hope you are able to join us from time to time. Our current BOTM, In This House of Brede, appears long, but is a very fast read, and a bit of a page turner.
Hello Elisabetta wrote me and she said to me that she is not the writer Elisabetta Sala. I apologize her personally and i apologize to the group and i would like asking for that she remained when i invited her to be One of us i did not do for being Mrs. Sala i did It for her fascinaiting readings. I would like that she was with us. I say welcome again.
Hello, I’m Catherine and live in Denver, Colorado, US. I love reading books on Catholicism, European and US history, and for relaxation a good mystery. Agatha Christie is my favorite mystery author. I am a devout Catholic with a special devotion to the Blessed Mother, St. Catherine Laboure, and Padre Pio. My mother, God rest her soul, was French and it’s because of her I was raised in the Catholic faith. I’m looking forward to participating in the discussions in this group.
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Hello, Catherine,
Welcome - we look forward to your participating as well.
Hello, Everyone! I am so happy I found this group...I am a French-American musician (classical and jazz) and a recent convert to Catholicism (I had my confirmation and first communion in November). Especially recently, I have been striving to learn more about the Catholic faith (my RCIA experience was a little limited due to COVID) and to obtain a deeper understanding of certain theological doctrines. I hope to discover more Catholic-centered literature and to partake in discussions with like-minded people :-). Currently, I am reading a couple Scott Hahn books (“Rome Sweet Home” and “The Lamb’s Supper”) and have on my to-read list Francis de Sale’s, St. Ignatius Loyola’s, and Fulton Sheen’s books, among others.
God bless!
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Both to the Catholic Book Club and to the Church. Hopefully you will be able to join us in this month's reading - Till We Have Faces, by C.S. Lewis.
God bless.
Sarah wrote: "Hello, Everyone! I am so happy I found this group...I am a French-American musician (classical and jazz) and a recent convert to Catholicism (I had my confirmation and first communion in November..."
I say the same as John Bienvenue Sarah to Catholic Book Club *hugs*.
Thank you, John and Fonch! I ordered the book, so I hope to get right to it soon.
I Will also participate in the discussion :-).
Has anyone read a book titled Michel, Michel by Robert Lewis? I think it's an amazing story about the tenacity of a Catholic woman to save a Jewish boy during WWII. Lots of food for thought about the rightness and wrongness if this well-meaning woman's actions.
I do not know This book i Might ask to my jew friend about This book.
Hello everyone! I'm Lori -- a cradle Catholic. I particularly enjoy mysteries and history. I stumbled upon your group a couple of months ago and was hoping to join you for "In this House of Brede." Unfortunately I just received my copy today. I'm looking forward to participating in future discussions.
Hello Lori welcome to Catholic Book Club. Do not worry an advice you Read the book if you find something Interesting you can post in the discussion somebody reply you.
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Hi Lori, Welcome. As Fonch said, the discussions are left open and some time discussions occur well after the month in which it was "official." Of course, we are about to vote on the April BOTM, so be sure to vote, and hopefully you will be able to join us in April as well!
I've been here for s while but didn't post here. I am from a little country in Europe best known for football and turism. I grew up in Catholic home and stayed in Catholic faith. I have a master in comparative literature and I'm going to write PhD thesis on C.S. Lewis as an literary author. I'm a writer also and I enjoy sunsets by the sea.
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Croatia?
Manuel wrote: "Skrivena stranica wrote: "I am from a little country in Europe best known for football and turism."Croatia?"
I have heard that this country has marevellous landscapes and beautiful monuments.
That's the turism part but I agree with it :))
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Hi, Peter. I hope everyone gets a chance to read the article “The Loss of Spiritual Herd Immunity” in the CatholicStand you provided. It’s brilliant. Thank you for SacredWindows, too. The illustrations and quotations are deep and beautiful.
Welcome to Mark and Dominic as well. I think John speaks for us all in his message 203 above.