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Nov 11, 2022 09:05AM
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I say in other section welcome. Few months ago we discussed about Bethrothed by Manzoni. One of the favorite books of the Professor Manuel Alfonseca, to John the moderator with the Professor liked really much in my case i must confess that i liked much less. Chesterton is my favorite writer, and Belloc is one of my idols. We are discussing about The Servile State by Hilaire Belloc, about "The City of God" was the most success review that i have ever written in Goodreads. I did not expect that my review liked so much People. My reviews hardly reached the five likes :-).
Hello, everyone! My name is Louise Aussant, and I'm a cradle Catholic who loves the TLM and works as the librarian of a K-12 traditional catholic school in British Columbia, Canada. I love reading all the usual suspects like Chesterton, Belloc, Waugh and O'Connor, but also enjoy finding less well known or newer catholic writers -- suggestions please.
I felt called to join GoodReads to write the first comment on the new treasury by Fr. Ed Broom, OMV: Compendium of Marian Devotions: An Encyclopedia of the Church's Prayers, Dogmas, Devotions, Sacramentals, and Feasts Honoring the Mother of God). :-D Then I found this group, and made my first post about "The World's First Love," which I recall reading in the past...
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A belated yet heartfelt welcome.
Ave Maria!My name is Fr. Jacob Powell. I am a cradle Catholic, a diocesan priest in Texas, and pastor of two small parishes. I am launching a book called "Praying With Our Sorrowful Mother," which is intended to facilitate meditation on the seven sorrows of Mary. This devotion is so helpful right now when so much confusion, division, and selfishness is rampant. I believe Our Lady of Sorrows is our refuge in strife. May the blessing of God on all in this community.
Ad Iesum per Mariam,
Fr. Jacob P.
Launch Day is February 15th on Amazon and other retailers (print and ebook).
I will read it! Thanks so much, Father.
Fergus, Quondam Happy Face wrote: "I will read it! Thanks so much, Father."Thank you much Fergus, I hope it opens more widely the Immaculate Heart of Mary for you.
Welcome Father it is a big honor to have you with us. I wish all the Best with your book.
Welcome, Fr.Jacob--I have had a particular devotion to Our Lady ofSorrows, and pray that rosary every Saturday. I will certainly look for your book!
Hello! I finally accepted the invitation, and I might leave after I check this out. :)
Hope y’all’re doing well and keeping in good health.My Catholic-themed short story has been recently published in an online magazine:
https://www.foreshadowmagazine.com/ma...
It is a psychological drama revolving around a priest and his penitent.
You are most welcome to read the story when you are free, and it would be great if you also could post a comment under it.
Thanks a lot.
Hello A.D. thanks for the comment and i hope that you were assissted by a lot of People.
Dear Mss Henriques i hope that not. You are more than welcome in The Catholic Book Club. Personally i enjoy staying with the Best catholic writers and readers of the world and you are one of the Best. If you stay with us you Will be able to lean a lot of us and reading good books.
It does not matter. You are more than welcome 🤗.
AD wrote: "Hope y’all’re doing well and keeping in good health.My Catholic-themed short story has been recently published in an online magazine:
https://www.foreshadowmagazine.com/ma......"
I am reading it now :) God Bless you.
Hey :) I was wondering if anyone knows much about catholic platonism? Specifically in relation is St. John Henry Newman, Plotinus, proclus and even Oxford and the Dominicans.
I’m so lost and I really need someone to talk to about things or work through things with.
You try with the Fathers of the Catholic Church especially Saint Augustine.
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Plotinus and Proclus are not Catholic Platonists. They were Pagan Platonist. Augustine and Dionysius Pseudo-Areopagite were influenced by Plato.
In modern times, C.S. Lewis tended to Platonism (although he wasn't Catholic), as well as his disciple, Peter Kreeft.
A different question has to do with Platonism in science and mathematics. I've written a book about that (in Spanish):
Todo es número ¿Es matemática la realidad?
I think that C.S. Lewis spoke about the Chartres School previous to the Middle Age Thomism 🤔.
Hi. I'm Donna.Love Interior Castle, Diary of St. Faustina... tried reading City of God, but got lost way too quickly. Need to try that one again when i have more time to consider it prayerfully. In Imitation of Christ is on my "to read" list - i've heard it's amazing. Just finishing writing a book, so i've just read a bunch of other books (researching) that i probably wouldn't recommend..... and a couple that i probably would (about saints' lives) - some of these people were truly amazing individuals. But i think i want to re-read St. Faustina's Diary again before i do anything else. ;)
I have read City of God. The effort is worth if you can conclude the reading succesfully. I wrote a review in Goodreads. My review with more likes in this application
Hello, I’m new to this group. I was raised Evangelical but converted to Eastern Orthodoxy in my 30s before coming to the Catholic Church with my wife and children about 7 years ago. I currently lead a book club at my wonderful, traditional Dominican parish in Portland, Oregon.
Graychin wrote: "Hello, I’m new to this group. I was raised Evangelical but converted to Eastern Orthodoxy in my 30s before coming to the Catholic Church with my wife and children about 7 years ago. I currently lea..."Welcome!
Welcome Graychin. I wish you find here a lot of readings.
Hey Fr. Jacob -- also a Texan (tho not native), also an author.... (first book, anyway)... i'm out in southeast Texas. *wave* howdy!
ooops.... don't know if i did that right the first time..... copy... delete... paste.... (do-over)Well, it's about time i join in.... i tend to hide in a corner alot. My name's Donna. I'm in the final editing (reviewing/beta reading) phase of my first book. i hate talking about myself, so not sure what to say. I'm an old lady who lives in southeast Texas.... cradle catholic (tho i strayed for a good while in my younger years). oh.... i run a website, https://MyCatholicChat.com -- i link to a ton of really amazing talks by people like Brant Pitre, Scott Hahn... also the "Explaining the Faith" series with Fr. Chris Alar. .... as well as a load of prayer videos (rosary, chaplet, st michael, and a ton of others).... we also chat on Discord and are working through the bible in a year series (Fr. Mike Schmitz) on weeknights (8pm central time) feel free to join us there if you'd like. Everything in union with the Magisterium. I've learned that obedience tends to trump all else. .... ok... i can't think of anything else worthwhile to say, other than "Hi, All!"
Welcome, Donna!I'm a fellow Texan, DFW area, retired schoolteacher and helping my husband with our post-retirement small business. I will check out your website!
Welcome Donna and all the best to your book and your website. I have a friend from Texas my friend Julie Davis although she is a convert.
Madeleine wrote: "Welcome, Donna!I'm a fellow Texan, DFW area, retired schoolteacher and helping my husband with our post-retirement small business. I will check out your website!"
awesome! i'm the the DFW area every other week! :)
(yeah, i do a lot of driving!)
Fonch wrote: "Welcome Donna and all the best to your book and your website. I have a friend from Texas my friend Julie Davis although she is a convert."Thanks for the warm welcome!
Hello. I joined this group because I have started a book club at my parish. I am looking for discussion questions for leaders. Our book selection are:Aug- The Eight Doors of the Kingdom (Philippe)
Sept- The Five Pillars of the Spiritual Life (Spitzer)
Oct- The Power of Silence (Sarah)
Nov- Abandonment to Divine Providence (Caussade)
Dec- Joy to the World (Hahn)
I have written questions for the first two books/meetings but would gladly accept resources for the other three books. Thank you for your consideration.
The book of Cardinal Robert Sarah we have read. Welcome to the group Mss. Sarah and i wish your group has a big success.
Fonch wrote: "The book of Cardinal Robert Sarah we have read. Welcome to the group Mss. Sarah and i wish your group has a big success."Thank you.
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Aug- The Eight Doors of the Kingdom (Philippe)..."
This is the link to our discussion of Cardinal Sarah's book:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/group...
You can find the discussion questions there.
I am also new to this group. Donna - thank you for sharing your website. On my website https://www.denisemercado.com/ you will find my Catholic Travel Blog along with my books. My latest book is titled - Mary's Life Journey & Her Amazing Yes! This book won an award with the 2023 Catholic Media Association and was used in a book study in my parish in NC. My next book will be published in October and will focus on the time period from the Resurrection to the day of Pentecost. Thank you for all your previous comments. I am learning a lot and look forward to continued dialogue.
Welcome 👋 both to the Catholic Book Club.
Denise wrote: "I am also new to this group. Donna - thank you for sharing your website. On my website https://www.denisemercado.com/ you will find my Catholic Travel Blog along with my books. My latest book is ti..."OOOooOOoooooh! --- your latest book sounds amazing - i'm totally gonna want to read that!
thanks for your website as well!
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Limbo for unbaptized babies thrown out. And the scientific theory of evolution accepted."
First comment: Limbo for unbaptized children was NEVER a dogma by the Catholic Church. Therefore it is not a change. And the scientific theory of evolution was NEVER rejected explicitly by the Catholic Church. None of the books by Darwin was ever in the Index of Forbidden Books. There were suspicions, but never explicit rejection. Therefore this is not a change either.
There is a big difference between "the Catholic Church says" and "a few (or many) theologians think this or that."
My second comment as moderator: This discussion does not fit with the intent of this thread (Introduce Yourself). If anywhere, it could go in the thread "Promote your work" (https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...). In a couple of days, I'll erase the last six comments away.
Manuel wrote: " In a couple of days, I'll erase the last six comments away. ..."Sorry about that. i deleted my other comments. And you're right...not appropriate for this thread.
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I don't fear change. I have been generating change during my whole life, with my research in computer science, artificial intelligence, artificial life, and many other fields. And I was a supporter of the II Vatican Council since its beginning.
But the changes you are suggesting affect the essence of the Church, they are not accessory. If they were implemented, the Church would stop being the Church and become another thing. Perhaps then I'd change my opinion that the anti-Christ will be (is) an ideology and accept that it may be a person (your woman Pope, for instance).
In any case, why don't you move this discussion to its proper thread? I have given the address, and I still intend to delete all these comments in the near future.
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Stafford, you apparently don't do well with rules, but I'm afraid I must insist. We try to limit promotion of one's work to a specific thread. The start of this discussion belongs there. The reason is simple, a Catholic Book Club that allows itself to be overtaken as a marketing device for authors tends to die. Authors are welcome, especially if they want to participate in the discussion of our books. But if all they want to do is promote their own work, then we insist they confine themselves to the self-promotion ghetto.
We also have a thread for discussion of any topic that interests people, so if you thought people wanted to discuss your ideas of change you could try bringing them up in the Atrium.
We have rarely had to do this, but we insist on courtesy in our discussions. It may be common in your left-wing circles in NYC to describing us rubes in the hinterlands as fearful, but those Stalinist tactics of marginalizing those who disagree with you are not acceptable here. I suggest you engage with our words, rather than trying to find hidden motives. It may be that you would be happier at another discussion group, the active members of this one are overwhelming orthodox Catholics, but if you cannot comply with our rules and standards, you will not be welcome here.
Manuel gave fair warning. I will delete the offending posts now.
The Atrium? I hadn't heard f that. Thanks for the tip. I don't object to being outed by your orthodox community. I thought there might be a broader membership. Now I know. How do you get to the Atrium?
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