As the year winds down, I’m finishing the podcasts of the Catechism in a Year from Ascension Press. It’s been a struggle to get through, but worth it. The sources that the Catechism drew from are wide and wonderful, and offer new reading material. Parts of the Catechism are like poetry, and parts are a [...]
Category: quotes to remember
oh, yes, that book…
TL:DR A) I don't really like books about people with no faith. B) A man can be a terrible husband but a good father. C) Romeo and Juliet is an eternal trope but the people involved, parents included, can get very annoying and stupid. Please note that I took one class in literature in college. [...]
Waiting and working…
We are waiting for the new grandchild, expected in the next few days. I am going to teach two 45-minute classes, one Monday and one Tuesday, next week at my old school. Preparation is intense. (Besides the actual classes I had to read a 128 page employee handbook and sign a paper saying I had [...]
Interesting quotations…
For reasons, by which I mean, someone asked me to find something and in the process I found other things, I found a bunch of quotations that I had written on scraps of paper and then tried to lose. To have beautiful and holy thoughts, to write books on the lives of the saints, all [...]