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Offline Philothea3

Re: Informal Book club
« Reply #10 on: March 15, 2026, 04:39:33 AM »
I briefly came across an architecture book on the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, which looks just like a cathedral. For the longest time I thought it was because of the science worshippers making it into a cathedral or they stole a cathedral and turned it into a museum. I was wrong. It was actually built by people that highly respected God and had chosen gothic style to honour God for His creation because they believed that science is to honour God as His handmaid and the whole universe is God's museum. I'm not particularly interested in history so I had that very wrong assumption. It's quite fascinating to learn how much love for God architects put into buildings back then even for a building that is not for religious use.
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Offline Boomerang

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Re: Informal Book club
« Reply #11 on: March 15, 2026, 05:38:02 AM »
Quote from: songbird on March 13, 2026, 07:06:23 PM
I finished reading The Internal Mission of the Holy Ghost by Cardinal Edward Manning.  Very good.  Cardinal Manning goes through all the Gifts how we naturally have knowledge ( example) but we can have Supernatural with the help of the Holy Ghost.  It is very well explained how we can achieve this or lose it.  I have never read anything so well explained.

Now I am reading The Memoirs of Pope Leo XIII, original/reprint 590 pages.  Very very good.  I am half way through it.
Cardinal Manning is great. I finished "The Glories of the Sacred Heart", and I found it very helpful in understanding conformity to the Sacred Heart, as well as some edifying quotes.

E.g. "The sanctity and the love and the truth and the mercy of Jesus were the very same divine attributes and perfections as the sanctity, mercy, justice, and truth of God."

The chapter on dogma and devotion also good, that in knowing the dogmas of the Faith we may grow in devotion, and by devotion we preserve dogma.
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Offline blue12

Re: Informal Book club
« Reply #12 on: March 15, 2026, 04:19:55 PM »
I am about to finish Raymond Ibrahim's book "The Two Swords of Christ". (I read "Defenders of the West" and "Sword and Scimitar" before that one). All three have expanded my understanding of the evils that were committed by muslims against Christians, and their real hatred for the truth. They also show how much men (and women) suffered for the faith. One goes over battles fought over the centuries against muslims, another tells about particular men who fought against jihad, and the last is about the warrior monks (the knights of the Temple and Hospital). I might read them again.
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Offline Seraphina

Re: Informal Book club
« Reply #13 on: March 15, 2026, 07:16:26 PM »
Yesterday I re-read Paddie’s Lament, about the so-called Potato Famine and its consequences for Ireland, having bad effects to this day. It was, in reality, an Irish-Catholic attempted genocide of the Irish by the British Protestants and Fɾҽҽmαsσɳɾყ. 
I read every year at this time in moemory of my Irish ancestors who died of starvation, were cruelly evicted from their homes, persecuted for their Faith, and those that God saved by sending them to the USA where they found more sufferings, discrimination, and different kinds of religious persecution. Nonetheless, the Irish who arrived as unwanted refugees in New York City still dominate essential aspects of city politics, public service, and religious life.If not for a few of them, I’d not be writing this comment.  
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