[Magdalen] What are we reading?

[Marion Thompson]

I have seen the last two episodes of Grantchester and am enjoying it 
immensely.  A more thoughtful kind of series.  I loved last night's 
exploration of lies.  James Norton, as the priest, is very credible, 
and, of course, Robson Green is a delight.

Marion, a pilgrim
On 2/2/2015 3:25 PM, Judy Fleener wrote:
> A young friend is studying epidemiology at Columbia after being in the
> peace corps first in Niger and then in Kenya.  He gave me two books to
> read:  Another Day of Life by Ryszard Kapusciski about the Angolan civil
> war.  I am nearly finished with that. He also gave me The Reluctant
> Fundamentalist by Moshin Hamid, next up.
>
> Then I'm doing  much lighter reading while I participate in my library's
> winter bingo, reading a book for each of 25 boxes.   Body Count by William
> Kienzle is for the Michigan author box.  I loved reading Brown Girl
> Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson (a book with a color in the title) a free
> verse book about the growing up of a young African American.
>
>    I watched Grantchester last night after Downton Abbey.  The author of the
> books on which this Masterpice Mystery is based is James Runcie, son of the
> former ABC.  His books feature Sidney Chambers a C of E priest. I just
> bought a book by that  author and thought it was in the series, but it is
> about the history of chocolate.  Oh, well,, I love chocolate.
> Judy
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 3:01 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
> magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
>
>>
>> In a message dated 2/2/2015 2:42:32 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
>> gracecan at gmail.com writes:
>>
>> Merton  was schooled in France or Switzerland, IIRC. While I
>> admire his later work,  I will never be a fan.>>>>
>>
>> When I cleared out my office at the VA a year ago, the missing
>>   b&w photo given me by a former Gethsemani monk turned up.
>> Wouldn't you know, now I can't find it again.
>>
>> It shows Solemn High Mass at the Abbey Church in the glory days
>> for monastic Orders, just after the end of WW-2.  The Abbey is
>> a long, high, and narrow building, and at the time had an elaborate
>> quadripartite gothic pseudovaulting.
>>
>> The picture shows the dramatic moment of an Elevation, with incense
>> galore floating up to the high vaults.
>>
>> Among the 100+ monks bowing low in their stalls is Merton.
>>
>> After Vatican-2, the monks tore out all the pseudovaulting, and left  the
>> building with the spare and stark steel beams actually supporting the  roof
>> exposed.
>>
>> The interior is extremely white, and overwhelmingly austere.   You'd think
>> the
>> place had been attacked by radical Protestant reformers.
>>
>> The monks sure make good cheese, however.
>>
>>
>>
>> David Strang.
>>
>>
>>
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