Thomas Merton (Spring 2025 Reading Project)

The Seven Story Mountain by Thomas Merton

https://www.amazon.com/Seven-Storey-Mountain-Thomas-Merton/dp/0156010860/

Study guide for Thomas Merton's The Seven Storey Mountain

https://www.amazon.com/Study-Guide-Storey-Mountain-SuperSummary/dp/B0C47TSDCG/

Who was Saint Joan of Arc?

Joan of Arc at the Coronation of Charles VII in Reims Cathedral, by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres  

see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_of_Arc_at_the_Coronation_of_Charles_VII

FHG Summer 2024 Reading Project

Saint Thomas Aquinas: The Dumb Ox

by G. K. Chesterton

https://www.amazon.com/Saint-Thomas-Aquinas-Dumb-Ox/dp/0385090021

Etienne Gilson on Saint Thomas Aquinas: The Dumb Ox ~ "I consider it as being, without possible comparison, the best book ever written on Saint Thomas." (quote from "What Every Catholic Should Know About Philosophy" by Peter Kreeft, 2023) 

Music by Saint Thomas Aquinas

Adoro te devote

https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/library/adoro-te-devote-11817

Art work entailing Saint Thomas Aquinas

The Demidoff Altarpiece

by Carlo Crivelli

https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/carlo-crivelli-saint-thomas-aquinas

Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture

A Catholic online course called 'Bread of Life: The Eucharist in Galilee' included hagiography!

• Saint Hilary of Poitiers
• Saint Augustine
• Saint Cyril of Alexandria
• Theophylact of Antioch (Patriarch)
• Saint John Chrysostom

https://watch.formed.org/bread-of-life-the-eucharist-in-galilee

... referenced from a multivolume set called 'Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture' 

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B075V9S2DN

Christian Heortology

What is Christian heortology? ... sometimes spelled as eortology 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heortology

... heortology as a branch of liturgiology (liturgical studies or liturgics)

Lets read a book about Christian heortology ... book report? 

https://www.amazon.com/Heortology-History-Christian-Festivals-Present/dp/1331684587

https://www.amazon.com/Heortology-History-Christian-Festivals-Present/dp/1014919363/

Saints from Iraq

Human beings began writing around 3400 BC in Sumer, Iraq (Mesopotamia) with Sumerian script (Cuneform). *

* Getty Center https://www.getty.edu/news/where-did-writing-come-from/

Can you find the saints from Iraq? (they can be either from or of Iraq)

see:  https://www.ncregister.com/features/the-saints-of-iraq

St. Marolus of Milan (April 23 feast day) 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marolus

Enchiridion by Saint Augustine

Saint Augustine by Justus van Gent circa 1474 (wikimedia commons)

We are going to read another book by Saint Augustine, and it is called "Enchiridion". I have read the first chapter, and it is a very interesting book!  Keep in mind there are several translations; We are also reading a commentary on this book by Fr. William F. Maestri to help us with the advanced reading level and also the advanced Catholicism.

Get a dictionary and look up 'enchiridion' (know what it means, know how to spell it, and know how to pronounce it) - in the realm of "livelihood education".  By adding the origin and transmission of the word, some academic approaches can be understood - that it is a Greek word that comes to us from late Middle English via late Latin (in the realm of "technical education" on word parameters can be found in certain dictionaries).  Please note that enchiridion is not the same word as compendium - they are two different words, and hence, two different things.  It is possible for a person to use the enchiridion with the compendium for enrichment and enlightment purposes.