Catholic Lifetime Reading Plan.
Here is a part:
//Great Christian Literature
Lord of the World by Robert Hugh Benson - Read and reviewed.
The Diary of a Country Priest by George Bernanos - Read and reviewed.
Hopkins: Poetry and Prose by George Manley Hopkins - Read selections of his poetry.
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes - Read.
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri - Read The Inferno.
Christianity and Culture by T. S. Eliot - Read.
The Idea of a University by Blessed John Henry Newman - Read.
Silence by Shusaku Endo - I actually have this book sitting in my "To Read" pile.
Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz - Need to read.
Lost in the Cosmos : The Last Self-Help Book by Walker Percy - Guess I ought to read this.
Love in the Ruins by Walker Percy - Ditto.
Flannery O’Connor: Complete Stories by Flannery O’Connor - Read one or two stories.
The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien - Do the movies count?
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh - Read and most favorite book of all time.
Helena by Evelyn Waugh - Never heard of it. Ordered.
Friday, December 05, 2014
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5 comments:
I'm honestly intrigued. Why is the Lord of Rings part of your Catholic Lifetime Reading Plan? It's an interesting choice I'd like to understand.
Because JRR Tolkien was a practicing Catholic who dedicated his Lord of the Rings Trilogy to the Blessed Mother. Next question?
"The Betrothed" by Alessandro Manzoni should be included. I actually read about it in the New Oxford Review and picked up a copy--a beautiful story.
Toby,
Like Lauran said, Tolkien was a Catholic and his Lord of the Rings is, it is said by those who know, filled with sacramental imagery.
My friend Craig Bernthal has a book on this that I have to get around to reading and reviewing -
http://www.amazon.com/Tolkiens-Sacramental-Vision-Discerning-Middle/dp/162138053X
The Betrothed sounds like it should go on my reading list.
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