Saturday, November 19, 2016

Books Read In The Past Week



Books read for the first time are marked with a #
Books are listed by author (or series creator),
 and not necessarily in the order read.

"Mother Angelica's Private
and Pithy Lessons from the Scriptures" #
introduced and edited by Raymond Arroyo
reserved for Sunday

"Secrets  (Brookville C.C. No 4)"
by Tziporah Elian
[children's/young teen fiction, Jewish, series]

"The Yada Yada Prayer Group Gets Down"
"The Yada Yada Prayer Group Gets Real"
by Neta Jackson
[Religious fiction, series, Protestant, multi-denominational and non-denominational]
(I figured out why the Yada Yada books 
appeal to me. It's in this post.)
This time around, I'm also going
to read ALL of the spin-offs

"Every Day Is A Gift
Minute Meditations for Every Day
Taken From the Holy Bible
and the Writings of the Saints"
Introduction by Rev. Frederick Schroeder 
 daily devotional reading for 2016
 

"Blueberry Muffins: Everyday Stories of God's Love"
by Colleen Spiro
[nonfiction]
(Kindle book)
reserved for Sunday

"Walden"
by Henry David Thoreau
[nonfiction]

A Bible-Reading System That Works For Me

After some trial-and-error... mostly error... I've finally found a Bible-reading system that works for me.

First of all, here are the things that I'm not doing this time around:
1: I'm not trying to read the entire Bible within a set time period.
2: I'm not reading the Bible from cover to cover.
3: I'm not following a prescribed reading list, program, or chart.

This is what I am doing:

1: I'm reading the Bible by type of book. Right now I'm doing St. Paul's Epistles (I'm reading Romans at this time; next will come 1st Corinthians.)
2: In addition to reading the Bible by type of book, I'm reading 
the Psalms, about 1/2 column a day.  And before I go to bed at night, I select and read a Gospel passage.
3: I'm using four translations.  They are, in alphabetical order:
The Contemporary English Version
The Good News Bible
The New American Bible
The Revised Standard Version, Catholic Edition
these Bibles are side-by-side in a large red shoe box.

I find that using several translations gives me a deeper understanding of, and insight into, the Scriptures, and also makes me think more about what I'm reading, and how it relates to me personally.


Encouraging news about EWTN's Fr. Anthony

Fr. Anthony hopes to be back on the air in the near future.  Oh, HOW I'm praying for that to happen! https://franciscanmissionaries.c...