Join the conversation

I once heard someone say that a library is one of noisest places in the world.  One walks into a room filled with books – all of which are filled with ideas of men and women from so many different time periods, perspectives, and walks of life.  The written word is far more than ink on paper; it is the beginning (or perhaps the middle) of a conversation.  We probably miss this because we no longer read out loud.  It used to be the norm to read out loud (St. Benedict had to give special direction to his monks to read quietly when they read at night so as not to disturb anyone!).

I wonder if there is a way that we can share what we are hearing from the books that we are reading.  Maybe this can be a format for that.

a new beginning

Well, I suppose it is time for me to join the world of 2001 – I got a blog.  Now the difficult part comes in – finding time to sit down and blog something “meaningful.” 

And so today, a word fom the great St. Augustine:  “We made bad use of immortality, and se we died; Christ made good use of mortality, and so we live.” (On Christian Teaching, I,29)