Contemplation of Truth

"Let me esplain.  No, there is too much.  Let me sum up."

I'm done with CYE.  Love it, but not looking back, only forward.


Finished Dante's Inferno and Purgatorio.  Got through Aquinas's monologue in Paradiso, and I could stand it no longer.  Inferno really renewed a healthy fear of Hell in me.

On the current reading list are:

Recollections of St. Joan of Arc Mark Twain

The Furrow St. Josemaria Escriva

The Summa Theologica St. Thomas Aquinas

The Silence of St. Thomas Joseph Pieper

Fr. Brown: The Essential Tales GK Chesterton

Perhaps also:

Peace of Soul by Venerable Fulton Sheen

The book of Job

Hamlet

Something by Jane Austen, but that'd take a great amount of coaxing.

Yup, that's about it.  I'll update when I damn well feel like it.

"I answer that [...] the contemplation of truth assuages pain or sorrow, and the more so, the more perfectly one is a lover of wisdom. And therefore in the midst of tribulations men rejoice in the contemplation of Divine things and of future Happiness, according to James 1:2."  -Aquinas, Summa Ia, q. 38, art. 4. 

Out
PS- I pray that my future husband READS the books he HAS; he doesn't just own copies and allow them to collect dust.