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- January 2016
Book: Awake My Soul: Contemporary Catholics on Traditional Devotions, by James Martin
Discussion Questions:
- Introduction
- Novenas
- Mary
- Pilgrimage
- The Miraculous Medal
- The Saints
- The Rosary
- First Fridays
- The Sacred Heart of Jesus
- Lectio Divina
- Holy Water
- The Stations of the Cross
- Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament
- Relics
- Our Lady of Guadalupe
- The Liturgy of the Hours
- Litanies
- St. Joseph
- The Angelus
- The Immaculate Heart of Mary

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- November 2016
- Introduction
- 0. Along the Way
- 1. Lady Marchmain and the Devout Life
- 2. Sebastion, Holiness and Sin
- 3. Quomodo sedet sola civitas
- 4. Title Meanings
- 6. The Characters
- 7. Favorite Quotes

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- January 2017
The Cardinal, by Henry Morton Robinson
- Introduction
- 0. Along the way
- 1. How did you experience the book
- 2. Father Fermoyle
- 3. Share your favorite passages
- 4. Ending
- 5. Reviews and ratings
- Jill's question
- John's question

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- February 2016
Book: Diary of Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska: Divine Mercy in My Soul, by Maria Faustyna Kowalska
Discussion Questions (Questions with no discussion have been deleted):
- Introduction
- Notebook I
- Notebook II
- Notebook III
- 2. Faustina felt misunderstood during her time at the convent
- 3. After the Lord Appeared to Faustina
- 4. How do you think you would know if you had a vocation to the religious life, that is, a calling from God to become a priest or a nun?
- 5. Priests and nuns take vows of chastity, poverty, and obedience.

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- August 2016
Book: Fatal Rhythm, by R.B. O'Gorman
- Introduction
- 1. How did you experience the book?
- 2. Discuss the Plot
- 3. Is the Ending Satisfying
- 4. Genre
- 4. John's Question

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- May 2016
Book: I Thirst, by Gina Marinello-Sweeney
Discussion Questions:
- Introduction
- 1. Counterculturalism
- 2. Structure
- 3. Lenten Themes
- 4. Friendship
- 5. Symbolism
- 6. Forgiveness
- 7. Favorite Character
- 8. Meaning of the Title
- 9. Cedric
- 10. Most Poignant Scene
- 11. End of the Novel


- October 2016
Book: Introduction to the Devout Life, by Francis de Sales
Discussion Questions:
- Introduction
- 1. Work in Progress
- 2. Change
- 3. Quotes
- 4. Vatican II
- 5. Devout Life

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- April 2016
Book: The Life of Saint Teresa of Ávila by Herself, by Teresa of Ávila
Discussion Questions (Questions with no discussion have been dropped):

- Introduction
- 1. How the Lord began to rouse her soul in childhood
- 2. How she came gradually to lose these virtues
- 4. How the Lord helped her to force herself to take the habit
- 5. She continues to speak of the great infirmities that she suffered
- 6. Of her great debt to the Lord
- 7. How she began to lose the graces the Lord had given her
- 8. Of the great profit that she derived from not entirely abandoning prayer
- 9. Of the means by which God began to rouse her soul
- 10. She begins to explain the favours which God gave her in prayer
- 11. She explains why we cannot attain the perfect love of God in a short time
- 12. More about the first state.
- 13. She continues to speak of this first stage, and gives advice concerning certain temptations that the devil sends at times
- 14. She begins to explain the second stage of prayer
- 15. Continuing the same subject, she gives certain advice on behaviour during the prayer of quiet
- 16. She treats of the third stage of prayer
- 17. She continues to explain the third stage of prayer
- 18. She treats of the fourth stage of prayer
- 19. Continuing the same subject, she begins to describe the effects upon the soul of this stage of prayer.
- 20. She treats of the difference between union and rapture
- 21. She continues and concludes her account of this last stage of prayer
- 22. She shows how safe a path it is for contemplatives not to raise their spirits to lofty things
- 23. She returns to the history of her life
- 24. She continues the same subject and tells how her soul went on improving
- 25. She treats of the means and manner whereby these words that God speaks to the soul are perceived without being actually heard
- 26. She continues with the same subject
- 27. She describes another way in which the Lord teaches the soul
- 29. She continues, and describes some great favours which the Lord showed her
- 30. She returns to the story of her life
- 31. She speaks of certain outward temptations and appearances of the devil
- 32. She tells how it pleased God to carry her in the spirit to a place in hell that she had deserved for her sins
- 33. She continues her account of the foundation of the glorious St Joseph’s
- 34. She tells how at this time she had to leave the town
- 35. She continues the story of the foundation of this house of our glorious father, St Joseph
- 36. She continues with the previous subject
- 37. She describes the effects that remained with her after the Lord had granted her a favour
- 38. She describes certain great favours that the Lord bestowed on her
- 39. She continues with the same subject
- 40. She continues her account of the great favours that God granted her


- September 2016
Book: Literary Converts: Spiritual Inspiration in an Age of Unbelief, by Joseph Pearce
Discussion Questions:
- Introduction
- 0. Work in Progress
- 1. How did you respond to the book?
- 2. Any Surprises
- 3. Most Familiar
- 5. Future Reading
- 6. Favorite Passages

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- June 2016
Book:Please Don't Remove Margreat's Glasses!, by Josh Baker
Discussion Questions:
- Introduction
- 1. Family
- 2. Timothy's Advice
- Timothy's Trials
- 4. Is Suffering Wasted
- 6. Angelo
- 7. Jude's relationship to Old Town
- 8. Objbections to Christianity
- 9. Timothy takes a risk confiding in Sarah, but is let down.
- 10. Would someone be able to tell you were a Christian by your actions alone?

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- December 2016
Book: Remembering Belloc, by James V. Schall
- Introduction
- 0. Work in Progress
- 1. Compare
- 2. Voting Regrets?
- 3. Future Reading Plans

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- March 2016
Book: The Seven Storey Mountain, by Thomas Merton
Discussion Questions (Questions with no discussion have been dropped):
- Introduction
- 1. What is the Interior Life?
- 2. Discuss Merton's Communal Perspective
- 3. Discuss Merton's Family Life
- 4. What is a Vocation?
- 6. Life Changes
- 7. Popularity
- 8. Quotes

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- February 2017
Book: Teresa of Avila: The Progress of a Soul by Cathleen Medwick
Discussion Questions (Questions with no discussion have been dropped):
- 1. Progress
- 2. Compare
- 3. Quotes

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