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The #1 book I read in 2012 was Fr. Robert Barron's Catholicism. I brought it with me during my priesthood retreat, and its pages were a joy to read. He prose is cogent and clear. He writes well...

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You remember #2 from a review from earlier this year . It took me nigh on a year to read The Discernment of Spirits by Fr. Timothy Gallagher, OMV. This book is a practical guide to the spiritua...

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#3 was the relative surprise of the bunch. The other books were connected with authors, pop culture phenomenons or publishers with whom I was familiar. Murder in the Vatican by Ann Margaret Lewi...

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So #4 was probably one of the biggest clean books (down with the smut!) of 2012, even though it was published a few years earlier. This was due in large part to Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games ...

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Book #5 has garnered one of the most popular posts on this blog, Trains are Not Safe Places . Agatha Christie's (the only other author to make a repeat appearance on the top ten) The Murder on t...

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Number 6 is another biography from unlikely, although apropos biographer. On a whim I downloaded from Libirivox , James Watt by Andrew Carnegie. I honestly don't know why I would download such a ...

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I picked up #7 in Audible because frankly, I love William Shakespeare. I've read Shakespeare bios before, but this seemed so comprehensive. Peter Ackroyd's Shakespeare covers it all and not jus...

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Number 8 on the list has been previously reviewed . So I won't say much, but what I will say is that it has rekindled my love for Tolkein and Lewis that had waned over years of Kant, Nietzsche, ...

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Sorry for the two day delay. Things at the parish caught up with me. Anyway back to the countdown... Number nine here is from an author who made it on the countdown twice last year (and I'll b...

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So I'm doing my annual countdown of the best books I read on 2012. There is a small caveat before I start. I didn't read as much. I read fourteen less books in 2012 than in 2011. This is in major...

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Passing down that enchanted lane that is St. Charles, with castles and plantations and ancient churches drifting by, one gets the strange, stunning and simple feeling that the most dignified age...

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I won't be able to do this every Monday but today is one of those days I can. Ryan Charles Trussel of Ora et Labora et Zombies fame has started something in the vein of Jennifer Fulwiler's 7 ...

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Union with Christ's death/sleep is essential to union with His life. For what is the purpose of the spiritual life other than to love, to be united with Jesus? This union IS our vocation. disce...

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As I have begun preparing couples for marriage, I have found that when they live together the preparation instantly becomes more difficult for them because they live a lie as a truth. Marriage p...

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This is a selection from a longer work on prayer and discernment. It reflects on the question "How much do we need to know in order to discern our vocation?" When it comes time for God to fulfil...

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It takes me forever to read a spiritual reading book. Forever. A year or two forever. The Discernment of Spirits: An Ignatian Guide for Everyday Living by Timothy Gallagher, OMV was one of those...

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So I haven't been writing a whole lot in this space as of late. Although there are many excuses I can and will give, I personally accept none of them. I took up this blog as part of my mission a...

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Since my time in San Antonio, three years ago, a devotion to the Sacred Heart has grown in my prayer life. I found out that this fine woman fostered it back in the late 17th Century due to some e...

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On the feast of St. Theresa of Avila. We provide for you a short prayer from the annals of her writings. Pray this often, for the bride of Christ, the Ship of the Church needs it. > Now, Lord,...

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At the beginning of the year of faith, this seems like an apt thought on which to reflect. > The most personal and secret intimacy  leads to the need > of announcing to all peo...

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People do not take enough stock in words. We take them for granted. We let them flow from our tongues, our fingers, and our pens without reflection to the vast beauty and depth of their existenc...

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I found out at the end of the day when no mail came that yesterday was Columbus Day. The government and some banks take the day off to 'celebrate' the founding of the new world by a Spanish funde...

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Sorry for being away so long. Life has been super busy and then I got sick with a virus. I didn't want to pass that on in my writing so I entered into semi-social media reclusion. I have recovere...

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Ever thought the last time you went to confession could change the world? Think again: > The sacraments are defining moments for Christians - and for the > world. - Fr. Kurt Stas...

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