My Busy Sunday and a Reading Update

Today I must begin work on my next class assignment. I am reading about and writing on the 2nd week of the Spiritual Exercises and the Prayer of the Senses. I have five topics to consider for my paper and have managed to get two of them into a rough draft. The next one is going to require a reread of the material - a short handout from Sandra Schneiders' The Revelatory Text.

I also finished yet another Jonathan Gash book, The Grail Tree. I have not mentioned what his books are about. They take place in a village in England. The main character, Lovejoy, is an antique dealer and a "divvie." A divvie is someone who can tell if something is an antique through his own internal senses: think of a water diviner for antiques. The books are murder mysteries with plenty of antiques information thrown in. I think any antique collector would enjoy them. I am not into antiques, but he talks about human greed frequently, and I confess that if I could make money off something priceless I just might.

The Grail Tree assumes that there has been a finding of the Holy Grail and the machinations of the various characters to acquire it and profit from it.

The Lovejoy books are irreverent, definitely chauvinistic and fun.

Ignatian studies

I began reading about the second week of the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius today. This section includes the Prayer of the Senses. I have a report to write on this and several other topics. Slogging through the reading all day today with many unwanted, but not unexpected, naps.

Meanwhile, my own adventure with the Spiritual Exercises has me traveling through the first week, a week of contemplation of my sins and the sins of the world.

More reading

In my quest to re-read all of Jonathan Gash's books before I enjoy the newest one, I just finished Gold by Gemini.

There Is a God/There Is No God

This little book, There Is a God/There Is No God, by John Kirvan comes highly recommended to me. It is considered a companion book to the Cloud of Unknowing. Each meditation is preceded by a section from the Cloud and is followed by Kirvan's meditation on that piece. I just began reading it this morning. We'll see how it goes.

Another book finished

I just finished A Whisper to the Living by Stuart M. Kaminsky. I love two of the several series Kaminsky writes. This one was an Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov mystery. The other series he writes that I like is the detective Abe Lieberman books.

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Reading Update

I just finished reading Saving CeeCee Honeycutt, by Beth Hoffman. It was a pretty good book, nothing heavy. See the reading list on the right side of the page.