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Brave New Book Club ~ ~ ~ March 8th, 2010
BRAVE NEW WORLD … by: ALDOUS HUXLEY
CHAPTER ONE:
I realize that most of you either don’t have the book, or if you have it, haven’t read
the first chapter. But I pretty much did the other book club alone too, so I’ll do the same here. Just jump in, if or when, you want to.
Chapter One:
My husband and I are avid readers. I average a book a week, often reading two. He does the same. We are also enthusiastic movie goers…again, I try to see a movie a week. (Unfortunately, or fortunately depending on the movie, many of those are children’s movies).
My favorite Genre is Supernatural or Psychological thrillers. I adore Dean Koontz, am a fan of Stephen King (tho less and less), Iris Johansen, James Patterson….you get the picture. I saw Paranormal Activity, Zombieland, Shutter Island, all the Doomsday flicks…
I HATE slasher movies however, and will NOT see a movie that has purely gratuitous violence.
It’s a Brave New Book Club!
Hear ye, hear ye! A new Book Club selection is being announced!!!!
By mutual agreement, it has been decided that our next book will be BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley. So get your copy and start reading!
I’m thinking we can start on March 8th? Can everyone get the book and read the first chapter by then? I don’t have a copy yet, so I don’t really know how much we should read at a time. I can revise the recommended reading after I have the book. For now, lets make it a tentative “First Chapter” by March 8th! WooHoo! I can’t wait!
BOOK CLUB ~ ~ ~ Augustine of Hippo by: Peter Brown
Okay, here are a few more excerpts from the book. John, you might be interested in the second one…
“For I wondered how it was that I could appreciate beauty in material things…and what it was that enabled me to make correct judgments about things that are subject to change, and to rule that one thing ought to be like this another like that. I wondered how it was that I was able to to judge them in this way, and I realized that, above my own mind, which was liable to change, there was the never-changing true eternity of truth…” page 87
And
It is this revolution which is, perhaps, the most lasting and profound result of Augustine’s absorption of Neo-Platonism. It did nothing less than shift the centre of gravity of Augustine’s spiritual life. He was no longer identified with his God: this God was utterly transcendent – His separateness had to be accepted. And, in realizing this, Augustine had to accept, that he, also was a separate and different from God:
Book Club ~ ~ ~ November 11th, 2009
Augustine of Hippo/Peter Brown
Oddly enough, the very next passage that I underlined in the book (page 80), talks
about the meaning of marriage. How apropos, given the last 10 or so posts we’ve put up.
“This problem often arises: If a man and a woman live together without being legitimately joined, not to have children, but because they could not observe continence; and if they have agreed between themselves to have relations with no one else, can this be called a marriage? Perhaps: but only if they had resolved to maintain until death the good faith which they had promised themselves, even though this union did not rest on a desire to have children…But if one or the other of these conditions is lacking, I cannot see how their alliance can be called a marriage. Indeed, if a man takes a woman only for a time, until he has found another who better suits his rank and fortune: and if he marries this woman, as being of the same class, this man would commit adultery in his heart not towards the one whom her had married, but towards her with whom her had lived without being legitimately married. The same can be said for the woman….Nevertheless, if she was faithful to him, and if, after his marriage to another, she herself gave no thought to marriage, but abstained from all sexual relations, I would not dare to accuse her of adultery – even though she may have been guilty, in living with a man who was not her husband.”
Book Club ~~~ November 5th, 2009
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO BY: Peter Brown
Okay, here’s what we have so far. We’ve basically decided to just put up any quote,
paragraph or excerpt that moved us and
comment on it…
From the Raving Theists blog:
There was one line that I highlighted…really got to me as the mother of 6, four of them young adult males…
“I just cannot see how she could have been healed if my death in sin had come to pierce the entrails of her love.”
Wow. I don’t dwell much on my boys lack of faith, but it is a deep pain, and very real. There just isn’t much I can do except pray so I basically shelf it. Reading that line made me cry, and my heart ache. I fell in love with Monica in that moment. And what a great son to realize it!
And:
Maggie,
Okay, here are a few excerpts that I really liked. Forgive any typos as I have to hold the LARGE book open and type at the same time…
New Book Club
I frequent a blog called the Raving Theist (formerly the Raving Atheist) and a woman over there (Maggie) suggested I read a book on St. Augustine. So I ordered it, have 
read 100 pages or so and am LOVING it. We decided to use it as a book club entry.
The book is called “Augustine of Hippo” by Peter Brown.
I’ll be transferring the posts that we have already created over to here soon.
My computer got the N1H1 virus and it wiped out EVERYTHING. It’s been in the hospital for 2 weeks now, which is why I haven’t put any posts up. Whew. I’m glad that “baby” is home now.
Not sure if I can get the Amazon Link thingy up, so if not you’ll have to find the book yourselves. I know most of you won’t purchase the book, and it won’t be nearly as intensive as Theology of the Body, but I hope you will check in. I knew NOTHING about Augustine prior to this, but have fallen madly in love with him.
Even if you haven’t read the book, feel free to comment or ask questions about anything that you see.
NOVENA of BLESSED MARGARET ~~~~~~~~~ DAY NINE
Ninth Day:
O Blessed Margaret of Castello,
Through your suffering and misfortune,
You became sensitive
To the sufferings of others.
Your heart reached out
To everyone in trouble –
The sick, the hungry, the dying prisoners.
Obtain for me the grace
To recognize Jesus in everyone
With whom I come into contact,
Especially in the poor,
The wretched, the unwanted!
Obtain for me also
The special favor which I now ask
Through your intercession with God.
Let us pray…
O God by whose Will
The blessed virgin, Margaret,
Was blind from birth,
That the eyes of her mind
Being inwardly enlightened
She might think without ceasing
On You alone;
Be the light of our eyes,
That we may be able
To flee the shadows in this world,
And reach the home
Of never-ending light.
We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen.
Jesus, Mary, Joseph,
Glorify your servant blessed Margaret,
By granting the favor
We so ardently desire.
This we ask in humble submission
To God’s Will,
For His Honor and Glory
And the salvation of souls.
Our Father…
Hail Mary…
Glory Be…
NOVENA of BLESSED MARGARET ~~~~~~~~ DAY EIGHT
Eighth Day:
O Blessed Margaret of Castello,
How it must have hurt
When your parents abandoned you!
Yet you learned from this
That all earthly love and affection
Even for those who are closest,
Must be sanctified.
And so, despite everything,
You continued to love your parents –
But now you loved them in God.
Obtain for me the grace
That I might see
All my human loves and affections
In their proper perspective…
In God and for God. Obtain for me also
The special favor which I now ask
Through your intercession with God.
Let us pray…
O God by whose Will
The blessed virgin, Margaret,
Was blind from birth,
That the eyes of her mind
Being inwardly enlightened
She might think without ceasing
On You alone;
Be the light of our eyes,
That we may be able
To flee the shadows in this world,
And reach the home
Of never-ending light.
We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen.
Jesus, Mary, Joseph,
Glorify your servant blessed Margaret,
By granting the favor
We so ardently desire.
This we ask in humble submission
To God’s Will,
For His Honor and Glory
And the salvation of souls.
NOVENA of BLESSED MARGARET ~~~~~~~ DAY SEVEN
Seventh Day:
O blessed Margaret of Castello,
You could have so easily
Become discouraged and bitter;
But, instead, you fixed your eyes
On the suffering Christ
And there you learned from Him
The redemptive value of suffering –
How to offer your pains and aches,
In reparation for sin
And for the salvation of souls.
Obtain for me the grace
To learn how to endure
My sufferings with patience.
Obtain for me also
The special favor which I now ask
Through your intercession with God.
Let us pray…
O God by whose Will
The blessed virgin, Margaret,
Was blind from birth,
That the eyes of her mind
Being inwardly enlightened
She might think without ceasing
On You alone;
Be the light of our eyes,
That we may be able
To flee the shadows in this world,
And reach the home
Of never-ending light.
We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen.
Jesus, Mary, Joseph,
Glorify your servant blessed Margaret,
By granting the favor
We so ardently desire.
This we ask in humble submission
To God’s Will,
For His Honor and Glory
And the salvation of souls.
Our Father…
Hail Mary…
Glory Be…
NOVENA of BLESSED MARGARET ~~~~~~DAY SIX
Sixth Day:
O Blessed Margaret of Castello,
Your miseries taught you
Better than any teacher
The weakness and frailty
Of human nature.
Obtain for me
The grace to recognize
My human limitations
And to acknowledge
My utter dependence upon God.
Acquire for me
That abandonment which leaves me
Completely at the mercy of God
To do with me whatsoever He wills.
Obtain for me also
The special favor which I now ask
Through your intercession with God.
Let us pray…
O God by whose Will
The blessed virgin, Margaret,
Was blind from birth,
That the eyes of her mind
Being inwardly enlightened
She might think without ceasing
On You alone;
Be the light of our eyes,
That we may be able
To flee the shadows in this world,
And reach the home
Of never-ending light.
We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen.
Jesus, Mary, Joseph,
Glorify your servant blessed Margaret,
By granting the favor
We so ardently desire.
This we ask in humble submission
To God’s Will,
For His Honor and Glory
And the salvation of souls.
Our Father…
Hail Mary…
Glory Be…
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