I recommend you give him a listen. Father Z’s Latin readings are beautiful (totally unlike mine!!), and he’s also podcast some very interesting stuff in English.
Pastoral Care continues, with more thoughts on preaching. This time, the Pope considers what to say to qualified preachers who are reluctant to preach, and then what to tell people who aren’t allowed to preach but are champing at the bit to do it.
Against Heresies continues, with an interesting couple of chapters. Chapter 25 treats both Abraham and Tamar’s lives as foreshadowing God’s covenants. Then Chapter 26 presents us with the great quote: “the treasure hid in the Scriptures is Christ”. (The OT scriptures, that is.) Book 4, Chapters 25-26
The Dark Night of the Soul gets rolling, with a review of the first stanza of the poem. St. John of the Cross then takes a moment to discuss the difference between beginners (still working on meditation, and trying to get to the stuff in Ascent) and progressives (people who’ve already started contemplation).
He also steps back to mention those bad attitudes and habits of beginners which can prevent them from progressing. He’s going to go through all the Seven Deadly Sins, but we begin with those connected to Pride. I certainly could tell he was talking to me!
Fatherless Fanny continues. The journey north to Fanny’s old home at Lady Ellincourt’s country seat proves uneventful. But the stops at inns along the way are only too full of incident.
The latest parts of Fatherless Fanny and The Everlasting Man will not be posted until tomorrow. I’ve been trying to figure out my new laptop’s new recording software, but it’s going slowly.
Christopher Morley was a well-known writer and literary man back in the day, as well as one of the founders (in 1934) of the Baker Street Irregulars and its scion Sherlockian clubs. So I’ve been meaning to post a mystery he wrote for the literary/booktrade magazine The Bookman in March and April 1921. Here’s the March part; April will come next week.
After putting it up a week early and having to take it down again, I almost forgot to put my Lent header image back up. Basically, the idea was to have a Lent header that also included the Annunciation, because of course the Feast of the Annunciation is March 25th — before the end of Lent. Also, it was recently pointed out to me that pregnancies are 40 weeks long, etc. But I really shouldn’t have that Pentecost image up yet, even if it does have the goofy medieval glasses on that apostle.
It’s short but packs a punch. It tells you that Lent is spiritual warfare, and why the demons hate our guts. And it’s by the guy who turned back Attila the Hun.
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