Currently Reading: August 2005

Title: The Cube and the Cathedral - Europe, America, and Politics without God
Author: George Weigel
Publisher: Basic Books
Release: 2005









Title: The Idiot
Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Translation: David McDuff
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Release: 2004, (Original Release: 1868)

Seeds - August 2005

Let everyone understand that the real love of God does not consist in tear-shedding, nor in that sweetness and tenderness for which we often long, just because they console us, but in serving God by serving those around us, in justice, fortitude of soul, and humility.
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- St. Teresa of Avila (1515-1582AD).

Currently Reading - July 2005

Title: Orthodoxy
Author: G. K. Chesterton
Publisher: Regent College Publishing. (Original Publisher: Dodd, Mead & Co)
Release: 2004. (Original Release: 1908)





Title: St. Francis of Assisi, Everlasting Man, St. Thomas Aquinas. Part of the Collected Works Series, Volume II
Author: G. K. Chesterton
Publisher: Ignatius Press
Release: 1986

Seeds - July 2005

You called me, you shouted, you shattered my deafness; you shone with dazzling light and dispelled my blindness; you were fragrant and I breathed in deeply and now I am breathless with longing for you. I tasted you and now I hunger and thirst for you; you touched me and now I burn with desire for the peace that is yours.
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St. Augustine of Hippo (354-430AD), “The Confessions”, 10:27,38.

See also the following links for more info on St. Augustine:

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02084a.htm
http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/sainta02.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustine_of_Hippo

http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/jod/augustine/

Seeds - June 2005

Blessed indeed are "those who have not seen, and yet have learned to believe!" Those who ask for no miracles, demand nothing out of the ordinary, but who find God's message in everyday life. Those who require no compelling proofs, but who know that everything coming from God must remain in a certain ultimate suspense, so that faith may never cease to require daring. Those who know that the heart is not overcome by faith, that there is no force or violence there, compelling belief by rigid certitudes. What comes from God touches gently, comes quietly; does not disturb freedom; leads to quiet, profound, peaceful resolve within the heart.
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- Romano Guardini (1885 - 1968), "Believing is Seeing", from Jesus Christus: Meditations. 1959.

Seeds - April/May 2005

A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic -- on the level with a man who says he is a poached egg -- or he would be the devil of hell. You must take your choice. Either this was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us.

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- C.S. Lewis (1898 - 1963), Mere Christianity. Christian Writer.

Seeds - March 2005

Without poverty of spirit there can be no abundance of God.
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- Oscar Romero (1917 - 1980), Archibishop of El Salvador. Martyr.