Wednesday, January 4, 2017

The Queue

I failed in my ambition to rediscover Rediscover Jesus during Advent/before Christmas, not finishing the fortieth chapter by Christmas Eve, but I've now dusted it off. Like Rediscover Jesus, Resisting Happiness is branded as part of Dynamic Catholic's "Best Lent Ever" program & will serve as the basis of the 2017 Lenten daily video program. I'm not going to read Resisting Happiness before Lent, but will explore it day by day through the season. Neither my mother nor I were particularly pleased with 2016's "Best Advent Ever" video offerings (both of us agreed that our time had been wasted); so, here's hoping for better things from 2017's "Best Lent Ever."

Also, it is a goal of mine to read Belloc's How the Reformation Happened this year, which marks the five hundredth anniversary of the Lutheran revolt, A.K.A. the Protestant Reformation, a massive outbreak of heresy that has lead directly to the atheism so prevalent in these latter days.

Recently
John U. Bacon, Endzone: The Rise, Fall, & Return of Michigan Football
John U. Bacon, Three and Out: Rich Rodriguez and the Michigan Wolverines in the Crucible of College Football
Matthew Kelly, Rediscover Jesus: An Invitation

Currently
Pope Francis, Amoris Lætitia (The Joy of Love) ***back to the salt mines***

Presently
Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms: The Rise and Fall of States and Nations ***paused***
Matthew Kelly, Resisting Happiness
Richard Price, Clockers
Sir Richard Francis Burton, translator, "Sinbad the Sailor" from The Arabian Nights
Sir Ernest Shackleton, South: A Memoir of the Endurance Voyage
Hilaire Belloc, How the Reformation Happened
William F. Buckley Jr., The Unmaking of a Mayor
Scott & Kimberly Hahn, Rome Sweet Home: Our Journey to Catholicism
Margaret MacMillan, Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World

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