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New Book Fr. James Martin has published a new book. It looks like a good one: Between Heaven and Mirth: Why Joy, Humor, and Laughter Are at the Heart of the Spiritual Life. I read Martin's My Life with the Saints, and I greatly enjoyed it. He strikes

Monday

Atheists and Libertarians A TDE reader sends this along: Ayn Rand's Atheists are Crashing the Tea Party [http://www.frumforum.com/ayn-rands-atheists-are-crashing-the-tea-party#more-106445] . It's a good piece, with a good deal of insight. One line, though, especially struck me: "What we are seeing here, breaking

Something for Sunday Morning

"If we were bodily immortal we would feel no such need for technical gadgets saving time time by conquering space." Erik Ritter von Kuehnelt-Leddin

Something for Sunday Morning

"A youth who is gentle bears many things; but a small-souled old man, who will be able to stand him?" Evagrius The Mind's Long Journey to the Holy Trinity: The Ad Monachos of Evagrius Ponticus [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0814622089/ref=as_li_ss_

Something for Sunday Morning

"How can we say that the Church wishes to bring us back into the Dark Ages? The Church was the only thing that ever brought us out of them." G.K. Chesterton

Something for Sunday Morning

"The Christian saint is happy because he has verily been cut off from the world; he is separate from things and is staring at them in astonishment." G.K. Chesterton

Something for Sunday Morning

"Work is a physical necessity; if you don't work, you don't eat. Prayer is a necessity of obligation; if you don't pray you will not enter the Kingdom." John Senior, The Restoration of Christian Culture

Something for Sunday Morning

“The most important thing is to pray and pray and pray.” Mother Teresa

Something for Sunday Morning

"Blessed is he who expecteth nothing, for he shall enjoy everything." St. Francis

Monday

New Book Many years ago, I was drawn to Martin Buber [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Buber] and Max Picard [http://www.hermitary.com/bookreviews/picard.html]. Buber, I met in an Alpena, Michigan, bookstore, picking up his I and Thou for fifty cents and reading it on the