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#242944 07/03/07 10:15 PM
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What are you reading now ?

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Dialogues of Plato. Right now, Timaeus.

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I've been on a science fiction marathon lately: The Martian Chronicles, R is for Rocket, 1984, 2001 a Space Odyssey, and 3001 (a follow up to 2001). Entertaining and thought provoking.

Sad, too: Especially in the 2001 series, religion is mocked but a kind of apotheosis is the central theme, caused by space aliens who have evolved into near-gods themselves and who are evolving us. They (the authors and fans of this stuff) are groping for theosis, but they are ignoring or rejecting Christ.

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I rarely am able to read one book at a time. I am reading the following books, first part of one, then part of another.
1. Jesus of Nazareth, by Pope Benedict
2. Creating the Special Word, a collection of lectures by Weston H. Noble
3. Purgatory, by Fr. F.X. Schouppe
4. Elizabeth Grand Duchess of Russia, by Hugo Mager
5. The Book of Daniel.
As I finish one book, another takes its place.

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1. Encounters with Holiness - Interviews by Father John Catoir with many (most I believe have passed on): Mother Teresa, Archbishop Fulton Sheen, Archbishop Joseph Raya, Dorothy Day, Catherine de Hueck Doherty, Father Walter Ciszek S.J., Card. O'Connor....(and more!) (published by St Paul's Books and Media/Alba House)price 14.95
2. Re-reading parts of Healing Fire of Christ by Father Paul Glynn (Ignatius Press 2003) being stories of past and modern cures etc. at Knock, Lourdes, and Fatima.

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"Jesus of Nazareth" by our Holy Father
"John Adams" by David McCullough

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Partaking of the Divine Nature, by Archimandrite Christoforos Stavropoulos
Re-reading the Book of Jeremiah
Pastoral Music - Feb-Mar 2007 theme issue on "New Approaches to Multicultural Liturgy" - includes article by Professor J. Michael Thompson

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Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak, and the memoirs of Blessed +Vasyl Vsevelod Velychkovsky.

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"The Rusyns of Hungary" by Maria Mayer. English version translated by Janos Boris, distributed by Columbia University Press, New York, part of thr East European Monograph series.

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Originally Posted by harmon3110
What are you reading now ?

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The previous post.

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Co-Leaders: The Power of Great Partnerships by David Heenan and Warren Bennis

First Comes Love by Scott Hahn


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The People From Nowhere - An Illustrated History of Carpatho Rusyns by Paul Magocsi.

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I'm re-reading The Proceedings of the International Symposium on English Translations of Byzantine Liturgical Texts (Stamford, Connecticut, 17-20 June 1998), as reprinted in two issues of Logos [web.ustpaul.uottawa.ca].

I've just finished A Survey of the Liturgical Translations of the Byzantine Catholic Metropolia by Fr. David Petras and have moved on to Translating Liturgically by Fr. Archimandrite Robert Taft.

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Timaeus was influential in early Medieval Europe because much of Plato remained undiscovered in Latin until, if I remember right, the fourteenth century. I really like that work!

I had been reading some of Plato's minor dialogues such as Parmenides and Minos.

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Right now I am reading the unabridged English version of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago while reading through a complete collection of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's short stories about Sherlock Holmes and reading from Pope Benedict XVI's Jesus of Nazareth.

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