Author Topic: looking for lefebvres writing online (Read 3124 times)

bowler · « **Reply #10 on:** October 06, 2013, 04:04:08 AM »

Advice from an ancient.

There are a gazillion books out there for you to read, you will never read them all even if you live to be 1000. If you read a few pages of a book and the author has not conveyed the subject to you, has not made the complicated easy to understand for anyone, you do not have a good author, discard him and move on. When you find a good author read his works (Saints, Doctors, Popes, clergy, Catholic writers).

To learn error, you learn the truth from Catholic authors, do not read the errors by the authors of errors (Eastern Orthodox, Protestants, Mohamedans, Bhuddists, Hindus,..... ). Learn truth to discern error.

bowler · « **Reply #11 on:** October 06, 2013, 04:15:12 AM »

Advice from an ancient.

There are a gazillion books out there for you to read, you will never read them all even if you live to be 1000. If you read a few pages of a book and the author has not conveyed the subject to you, has not made the complicated easy to understand for anyone, you do not have a good author, discard him and move on. When you find a good author read his works (Saints, Doctors, Popes, clergy, Catholic writers).

To learn error, you learn the truth from Catholic authors, do not read the errors by the authors of errors (Eastern Orthodox, Protestants, Mohamedans, Bhuddists, Hindus,..... ). Learn truth to discern error.

re: made the complicated easy to understand for anyone

Read The Incredible Catholic Mass by Fr. Martin Von Cochem, and then all his books. You will see an excellent example of someone who writes five different ways about a subject in just like one page, for five different minds (covering from the peasant to the Phd.)

bowler · « **Reply #12 on:** October 06, 2013, 04:38:51 AM »

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If you read a few pages of a book and the author has not conveyed the subject to you, has not made the complicated easy to understand for anyone, you do not have a good author, discard him and move on.

We are living in the modernist/progressivist revolution, the synthesis of all heresies (Pius X called it the cesspool of all heresies. A cesspool is the final resting place of all the city's sewer pipe flows!) The chosen snare of the devil for his purpose has been the chocolate of the clergy, an attraction for what they do not understand. The chocolate has been provided by the likes of the Karl Rahners, Jacques Maritains , Von Balthasars types.

Had the clergy followed the advise above, they would have avoided falling into heresy. They would have discerned the apostate authors (Karl Rahners, Jaques de Maritan, Von Balthasar, ect.) as being the just bad writers, and not "guiding lights".

Good authors make the complicated easy to understand. Bad authors use words to confound rather than to communicate.

Read anything written by JPII. If you think that it is well written. You are in deep trouble, you'll have to start from scratch to learn how to learn.

DominvsSabaoth · « **Reply #13 on:** October 06, 2013, 09:41:13 AM »

Good ideas.
I read a good deal of Aquinas's summa theologica. A priest I am friendly with recco.ended a Latin version of the confessions of St Augustine. I also hear excellent things about st Robert bellarmine, cantius, and saint alphonsus.
I have also read a small volume by benedict xvi and...here itis bowler: JP II. He was a bit ovverated...i must admit