Friday, April 24, 2020

The Queue | The Stars My Destination

In quarantine, I've been listening to fewer Catholic podcasts & more space podcasts. (More on that another time.) These resources are helping to fuel "The Explorers' Club's" post-centenary-of-the-Great-War project to celebrate manned spaceflight: the fiftieth anniversaries of the Project Apollo Moon landings (& to catch up on the fifty-ish anniversaries of Apollos 7, 8, 9, & 10), the fifty-fifth anniversaries of Project Gemini, the fifty-eight & fifty-ninth anniversaries of Project Mercury, & the Soviet space programs. Alan Bean (1932-2018) walked on the Moon during Apollo 12 (see: below) & I've had his book, Apollo: An Eyewitness Account, in my library for years; so, without setting aside No Greater Love (duel to the death!), now seems like a propitious moment to finally read Apollo, a coffee-table book that showcases Bean's paintings.

Recently
Jimmy Akin, The Bible Is a Catholic Book
Theresa Aletheia Noble, F.S.P., Remember Your Death: Memento Mori Lenten Devotional
Tom Godwin, The Survivors

Currently
Alan Bean with Andrew Chaikin, Apollo: An Eyewitness Account
Edward Sri, No Greater Love: A Biblical Walk through Christ's Passion

Presently
Flannery O'Connor, Flannery O'Connor Collection (Word on Fire Classics)
Fulton J. Sheen, Life of Christ (Word on Fire Classics)
Dom Jean-Baptiste Chautard, Spiritual Handbook for Catholic Evangelists: How to Win Souls without Losing Your Own


The Wayback Machine Tour of Apollo 12
The 50th Anniversary of Apollo 12, Part I: № DCCXVIII
The 50th Anniversary of Apollo 12, Part II: № DCCXIX
The 50th Anniversary of Apollo 12, Part III: № DCCXX

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