Didn't go to Mass today. I missed it. I was busy with relatives and duties, and then I am discouraged about so much in Rome, US Conference of Bishops and our diocese... but I love the Mass and still missed it today. You can take that two ways. Both of them literal. The power, control, rules and pettiness are offputting. The language of the new liturgy is a painful reminder of this.. Several times in each Mass, I am jarred out of the spirit of Mass by messing up the words.
There is comfort in knowing the words. Would we change the Memorare? Hail Mary? I guess we would change the Creeds themselves... we did. Or rather they did.
I missed Mass today.
Sunday, May 13, 2012
Friday, May 4, 2012
Found a book in new non-fiction at North Park Library (EVPL). Chapters are discussion of eash book's merits. I have to admit I have not read any of these through, although I started a few. Maybe I will have this be my late life reading list?
A guide to Essential Spiritual Classics
25 Books Every Christian Should Read
A guide to Essential Spiritual Classics
Edited by Julia L. Roller; Harper One, 2012
- On the Incarnation, St. Athanasius
- Confessions,
- The Sayings of the Desert Fathers, Various
- The
Rule of St. Benedict,
- The Divine Comedy, Dante
- The Cloud of unknowing, Anonymous
- Revelations
of Divine Love, julian of
- The Imitation of Christ, Kempis
- The Philokali, Various
- Institutes of the Christian Religion Calvin
- The
- Dark
Night of the Soul,
- Penees, Blaise Pascal
- The Pilgrim’s Progress, John Bunyan
- The Practice of the Presence of God, Brother Lawrence
- A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life, William Law
- The Way of a Pilgrim, unknown
- The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoevsky
- Orthodoxy, Chesterton
- The Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins
- The Cost of Discipleship Dietrich Bonheoffer
- A Testament of Devotion, Thomas Kelly
- The
- Mere Christianity CS Lewis
- The Return of the Prodigal Son, Nouwen
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