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I vote for "The history of the Earth-9 colony" by M.Alfonseca and "The Emerald Tablet", by Manuel Alfonseca
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"The Emerald Tablet"
"Friends in high places"
I would like vote for:"The history of the Earth-9 colony" by M.Alfonseca and "The Emerald Tablet", by Manuel Alfonseca
Friends in High Places - Corinna TurnerWith Two Eyes Into Gehenna, Jane Lebak
From Fire, By Water...Friends in High Places
The Emerald TabletSalvation Is From The Jews
From fire by WaterSalvation is from the Jews
I vote for "By What Authority" and "The History of the Earth - 9 Colony."
The Boy Who Knew: Carlo AcutisOld Men Don't Walk to Egypt: Saint Joseph
Child, Unwanted (Margaret of Castello)
The Centurion's Daughter
I vote for “From Fire, By Water” and Centurion’s Daughter
"By What Authority"and "Sonnets for Christ The King"
The emerald tabletFriends in high places
These all look really cool, but I'm gonna have to vote for a By What Authority?, by Robert Hugh Benson and Infiltration: The Plot to Destroy the Church from Within, by Taylor R. Marshall.
The Emerald Tablet; andPierre Toussaint.
Thank you!
Salvation is from the Jews and Poor Banished Children
By what AuthorityThe Hundredfold: songs for the Lord
The Emerald TabletFrom Fire by Water
History of the Earth and Poor Banished Children.
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By What Authority?, by Robert Hugh Benson, nominated by Elisabeth
BY WHAT AUTHORITY? is Robert Hugh Benson's first in a series of three novels designed to tell the story of the English Reformation from the Catholic point of view. This he achieved without the use of the stereotypes that characterized virtually all such productions in his day to the detriment of both sides of the question.
During the Protestant Reformation, Catholic families suffered persecutions of various types. Families were divided; fathers and sons were thrown into jail; priests were hunted down and killed; neighbor turned against neighbor. But through it all, the few priests that remained were able to sustain and convert many.
Voting History: None
Centurion's Daughter, Justin Swanton, Fonch
Written and illustrated by master storyteller Justin Swanton, Centurion's Daughter is a thoughtful and compelling journey to a little-known period of history when an empire fell and the foundations of Christendom were laid.
Voting History: February 2022 - 2
The Emerald Tablet, by Manuel Alfonseca, nominated by John
Loyalty to her homeland and her ideals make Meriem a young heroine. In the times of the emperor Valerian Augustus, the borders of the Roman Empire begin to weaken and strange people walk inside. In Hispania, Gaius Aeolius receives the visit of a mysterious Egyptian who brings ruin to the house, along with a mysterious emerald tablet. Young Meriem and her brother Lucius are then involved in a series of adventures, which will take them from an encounter with barbarians to the presence of Caesar.
Voting History: None
From Fire, by Water: My Journey to the Catholic Faith, by Sohrab Ahmari, nominated by Sohrab and John
Sohrab Ahmari was a teenager living under the Iranian ayatollahs when he decided that there is no God. Nearly two decades later, he would be received into the Catholic Church. In From Fire, by Water, he recounts this unlikely passage, from the strident Marxism and atheism of a youth misspent on both sides of the Atlantic to a moral and spiritual awakening prompted by the Mass. At once a young intellectual’s finely crafted self-portrait and a life story at the intersection of the great ideas and events of our time, the book marks the debut of a compelling new Catholic voice.
Voting History: February 2021 - 3; March 2021 -8; April 2021 - 9; May 2021 - 2; July 2021 - 2; September 2021 - 4; October 2021 - 4; December 2021 - 5; February 2022 - 7
Friends in High Places (https://www.goodreads.com/series/3264...), by Corinna Turner, nominated by Manuel.
This nomination is to read the following three books in this series:
The Boy Who Knew: Carlo Acutis
Old Men Don't Walk to Egypt: Saint Joseph
Child, Unwanted (Margaret of Castello)
Voting History: None
The Gift of the Church: Volume 1 - How the Catholic Church Transformed the History and Soul of the West, Ryan N.S. Topping, Steven R.
In this first volume, The Gift of the Church: How the Catholic Church Transformed the History and Soul of the West, Topping brilliantly describes the Church’s indispensable role in the development of western civilization. He does so by identifying the various gifts which the Church, through the divine action of God, and the human actions of her members, has given to us – even those of us who have forgotten and those of us who never knew
Voting History: February 2022 - 4
The history of the Earth-9 colony, M.Alfonseca, Manuel
The colonization of the galaxy has started. When human beings discover planets suitable for life, they enter in conflict with extraterrestrial intelligences who were living there. This science-fiction novel revises the story of Adam and Eve and its consequences, in the setting of space colonization and the encounter with extraterrestrial intelligences.
Voting History: February 2022 - 4
The Hundredfold: Songs for the Lord, by Anthony M. Esolen, nominated by Joe
The Hundredfold is a tapestry of hymns, monologues, and short lyrics knit together as one book-length poem in praise of Christ in his startling humanity. Using all the riches of the English poetic tradition—meter, rhyme, music—the poet ponders the mysterious man from Nazareth and the world he came to set on fire with splendor.
Voting History: December 2021 - 3; February 2022 - 3
Infiltration: The Plot to Destroy the Church from Within, by Taylor R. Marshall, nominated by Pop
Pierre Toussaint: A Biography, by Arthur Jones, nominated by Kathleen
This richly detailed portrait of Pierre Toussaint, who was born into slavery, became one of the most admired men of his time, and is now a candidate for canonization, reveals both the journey of an extraordinary man and a fascinating glimpse into nineteenth-century America.
Voting History: December 2021 - 3; February 2022 - 2
Poor Banished Children, by Fiorella De Maria, nominated by Fonch
An explosion is heard off the coast of sixteenth-century England, and a woman washes up on the shore. She is barely alive and does not speak English, but she asks for a priest... in Latin. She has a confession to make and a story to tell, but who is she and where has she come from? Cast out of her superstitious, Maltese family, Warda turns to begging and stealing until she is fostered by an understanding Catholic priest who teaches her the art of healing. Her willful nature and hard-earned independence make her unfit for marriage, and so the good priest sends Warda to serve an anchorite, in the hope that his protege will discern a religious vocation.
Voting History: August 2020 - 1; September 2020 - 5; October 2020 - 3; November 2020 - 2; December 2020 - 4; ; January 2021 - 3; February 2021 - 4; March 2021 - 2; April 2021 - 4; May 2021 - 4; July 2021 - 3; September 2021 - 3; October 2021 - 6; December 2021 - 5; Poor Banished Children - 6
The Prodigal Church: Restoring Catholic Tradition in an Age of Deception, by Brandon McGinley, nominated by Ben Eastman
For too many decades, our Catholic Church has diluted her distinctive traditions in order to please contemporary culture, losing not only her patrimony but much of her moral authority- just when the world needs it most. Today, with our country and our Church suffering their worst crises since the 1960s, distressed American Catholics are understandably hungry for big solutions to their big problems. Fortunately, where today so many see only darkness, author Brandon McGinley sees light, arguing that these dire days offer us an opportunity to rescue our Church- if only we have the holy confidence to seize this God-given moment.
Voting History: December 2021 - 3; February 2022 - 2
Salvation Is from the Jews: The Role of Judaism in Salvation History from Abraham to the Second Coming, by Roy H. Schoeman, nominated by Faith
The book traces the role of Judaism and the Jewish people in God's plan for the salvation of mankind, from Abraham through the Second Coming, as revealed by the Catholic faith and by a thoughtful examination of history. It will give Christians a deeper understanding of Judaism, both as a religion in itself and as a central component of Christian salvation.
Voting History: December 2021 - 2; February 2022 - 4
Sonnets for Christ the King, J.C.MacKenzie, Joseph
The seventy-seven Sonnets for Christ the King form a lyrical sequence around the traditional themes of love, death, and the passage of time, but within the context of a divinely ordered cosmos. Referred to by top New York poetry editor and critic Dr. Joseph Salemi as ''a liturgically mediated conversation with God,'' the sequence is both extremely varied and perfectly contained. In addition to love poems, Salemi observes that there are also ''prayers, meditations, devout recollections of individual saints, scriptural and liturgical reminiscences, and even doctrinal argument...Indeed, the last fourteen sonnets in the sequence are meditative disquisitions on the Stations of the Cross.''
Voting History: February 2022 - 2
With Two Eyes Into Gehenna, Jane Lebak, Steven R.
Sister Magdalena never heard of the Catherinite nuns until the day she faced her own death sentence. Rome, 1562. It’s the era of the Index of Banned Books and the Roman Inquisition. Kings still burn heretics. The worst threats come from within the Church itself.
Voting History: April 2021 - 2; May 2021 - 2; July 2021 - 4; September 2021 - 2; October 2021 - 3; December 2021 - 3; February 2022 - 3