Last year for Lent, I had an (inspired?) somewhat strange idea for Lent. There is a age-old wedding tradition in the form of a little ditty aimed at guiding the bride when she prepares her garment for the feast. That tradition goes in the manner of a ditty, she is to wear,<\/p>\n
Something old,
\nSomething new,
\nSomething borrowed, and
\nSomething blue.<\/p><\/blockquote>\nI read. If I had time and less concerns I’d read a lot more, but I really enjoy study and reading. As a result, my Lenten tradition, now all of two years old, is to read 4 from books during the Lenten journey. And … the strange part is, I select these books based for good reason on that marriage ditty. I don’t have my borrowed book as yet, but the other three are the following:<\/p>\n
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- The old book is a book I’ve read and am going to re-read. For this book, I’m going to re-read The Brothers Karamazov<\/a><\/em>. I finished this about a year ago but just before completing it I read in this little book on theodicy The Doors of the Sea: Where Was God in the Tsunami?<\/a><\/em> by David Bentley Hart that a important theme in the Brothers K<\/em> is the posing and the Christian answer to the theodicy problem.<\/li>\n
- The new book is a book newly acquired. Two books have vied for this as both seem really good. But I’ve selected\u00a0God, Man and the Church<\/a> <\/em>by Vladamir Solovyev. Mr Solovyev was a late 19th century religious philosopher who influenced both Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, judging by his wiki page <\/a>and the introduction which I’ve glanced through, this will be an interesting read.<\/li>\n
- And the blue book, is likely going to recur as the blue book for quite some time to come, Saint Silouan, the Athonite<\/a><\/em> by the Archimandrite Sophrony has a blue cover … and is full of the teaching and example of an exemplary saint. Mount Athos is the holy mountain<\/a> in Greece, a treasured and holy place for the Eastern Orthodox churches. Twenty monasteries dot the hillside and many, if not most, have been there for more than a millenia.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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