[Magdalen] What are we reading?

[Jon Egger]

There is a cool app for android phones (maybe others, too) called Jesuit
Prayer.  It's quite nice.

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Grace & peace,
jon


On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 2:41 PM, Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>