Father Kevin in via: He's asleep in the boat, but not unaware

Monday, 6 April 2020

Another spectacular nineteenth-century painter from the French School. Learn more about Jules-Joseph Meynier, who painted this.

Father is reading...

Apologetics and Catholic doctrine, M. J. Sheehan (a comprehensive catechesis)
Classical music, J. Stanley (a comprehensive survey of the genre)
Divina Commedia, Dante Alighieri (a classic of Italian literature)
How to paint landscapes quickly and beautifully in watercolour and gouache, N. Fowkes (just that)
Introduction to Portuguese history, language and culture, J. B. Machado (just that)
Jerusalem, a biography, S. S. Montefiore (a colossal history of the holy City)
Jesuits of the Goa province, Fr. G. Naik (an historical overview of the Jesuits in Goa)
Marking the Hours: English people and their prayers, E. Duffy (on the daily prayer of the English in late medieval England)
Marvelocity, A. Ross (a showcase of Ross' comic book art for Marvel Comics)
Reading Greek, by the Joint Association of classical teachers (a primer of classical Greek)
Silence, S. Endo (novelisation based on the early Jesuit missions to Japan)
Summa contra Gentiles, S. Thomas Aquinas (a shorter treatise on the Catholic Faith)
Tactical chess endings, by J. Nunn (a survey of game endings by the English GM)
The Book of Enoch, R. H. Charles (an English translation of an apocryphal classic)
The complete Jewish study Bible, Barry Rubin (ed., a Jewish commentary on sacred Scripture)
The memoirs of Louis Bouyer, L. Bouyer (an autobiography of one of the most impressive 20th-century liturgical scholars)
The path to Rome, by H. Belloc (an autobiography of his conversion)
The Reformation and the English people, by J. J. Scarisbrick (various essays on the destruction of the medieval English Church)
Vita communis, J. Bertram (a history of the priestly college)

Father Kevin in via

Monday, 6 April 2020

He's asleep in the boat, but not unaware

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