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 Post subject: Lenten Reading
PostPosted: Mon Feb 20, 2012 9:37 pm 
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Is anyone doing any special reading for Lent? I'm going to read Divine Mercy in My Soul, and then try to get through the second part of The City of God. I think it unlikely that I'll finish both of these before the end of Lent. Though I might read something like Saint Alphonsus' On the Passion and Death of Christ during Passion Week.

Yes, I do read too much. But it's very easy when you do little else. :fyi: :mrgreen:

So, do other people have any special Lenten projects?

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 Post subject: Re: Lenten Reading
PostPosted: Mon Feb 20, 2012 10:02 pm 
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This year during passion week, I'm going to watch The Passion of the Christ directed by Mel Gibson, at the suggestion of my Spiritual Director. I've resisted for 8 years because I don't like violence, but my SD (a serene Italian religious sister) says that it is a very good aid to the contemplations of the passion.


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 Post subject: Re: Lenten Reading
PostPosted: Mon Feb 20, 2012 10:11 pm 
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in the past i have read Venerable Mary Agreda's The Mystical City of God, Blessed Catherine Emmerich's The Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary and The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ and then all the Psalms spread out over all the days of Lent

i'm toying with the idea of taking at least an hour a day and read the New Testament this year

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 Post subject: Re: Lenten Reading
PostPosted: Mon Feb 20, 2012 10:19 pm 
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i'm toying with the idea of taking at least an hour a day and read the New Testament this year


fs, you could apply Lectio Divina to your hour of scripture reading! :wave


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 Post subject: Re: Lenten Reading
PostPosted: Mon Feb 20, 2012 10:22 pm 
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is that available for free...cuz that's about what i can afford 8-)

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 Post subject: Re: Lenten Reading
PostPosted: Mon Feb 20, 2012 10:23 pm 
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faithfulservant wrote:
i'm toying with the idea of taking at least an hour a day and read the New Testament this year


How could it possibly take you an hour a day to do that? You could read the entire New Testament in about 3 hours....

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 Post subject: Re: Lenten Reading
PostPosted: Mon Feb 20, 2012 10:24 pm 
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is that available for free...cuz that's about what i can afford 8-)



Oh, on the contrary... you profit!

http://ocarm.org/en/content/lectio/what-lectio-divina


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 Post subject: Re: Lenten Reading
PostPosted: Wed Feb 22, 2012 10:04 am 
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I plan to read the following:

Pope Benedict XVI, The Word of the Lord (Verbum Domini), Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation, September 30, 2010.

Joseph Ratzinger (now Pope Benedict XVI), Jesus of Nazareth - Holy Week: From the Entrance into Jerusalem to the Resurrection.

A Study Guide for Jesus of Nazareth - Holy Week from Ignatius Press.

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 Post subject: Re: Lenten Reading
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I recently bought "Divine Intimacy"...Meditations on the interior life for every day of the liturgical year. It is by Father Gabriel of St. Mary Magdalen, O.C.D.


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The Sadness of Christ by St. THomas More

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 Post subject: Re: Lenten Reading
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The Sadness of Christ by St. THomas More

Ooo, that looks good!

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