Five Books for Catholics

The recommended books for this episode are:

1. The Servile State by Hilaire Belloc
2. An Essay on the Restoration of Property by Hilaire Belloc
3. An Outline of Sanity by G.K. Chesterton
4. A Humane Economy by Wilhelm Röpke
5. The Economics of the Free Society by Wilhelm Röpke

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The books recommended in this episode are:

1. Corpus Mysticum: The Eucharist and the Church in the Middle Ages by Henri de Lubac SJ
2. Called to Communion: Understanding the Church Today by Joseph Ratzinger
3. Flesh of the Church, Flesh of Christ: At the Source of the Ecclesiology of Communion by Jean-Marie Roger Tillard
4. Eucharist, Bishop, Church: The Unity of the Church in the Divine Eucharist and the Bishop During the First Three Centuries by John D. Zizioulas
5. Sacrament of Salvation: An Introduction to Eucharistic Ecclesiology by Paul McPartlan

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The books recommended in this episode are:

1. On Matters Southern: Essays About Literature and Culture, 1964-2000 by Marion Montgomery
2. Possum, and Other Receipts for the Recovery of "Southern" Being by Marion Mongomery
3. Liberal Arts and Community: The Feeding of the Larger Body by Marion Mongomery
4. Romantic Confusions of the Good: Beauty as Truth, Truth as Beauty by Marion Mongomery
5. With Walker Percy at the Tupperware Party: in Company with Flannery O'Connor, T.S. Eliot, and Others by Marion Mongomery

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Marion Montgomery (1925-2011) was a novelist and poet but is remembered for his literary and cultural criticism. An Anglo-Catholic, he shared the same background and outlook as his Catholic friend, peer, and fellow Georgian, the writer Flannery O’Connor, so much so, that he too described himself as a “hillbilly Thomist.” His cultural criticism draws on Thomism and Southern Agrarianism and stresses the importance of metaphysical realism, localism, and tradition. His literary criticism includes perceptive studies on writers such as Poe, Hawthorne, T.S. Eliot, Flannery O’Connor, and Walker Percy.

In this interview, Prof. Michael M. Jordan discusses Montgomery’s work and some of his best books.

Michael M. Jordan is Professor Emeritus of English at Hillsdale College and earned his PhD in English under the direction of Marion Montgomery at the University of Georgia. He lectured on the work of various Southern authors: the Southern Agrarians, Donald Davidson, Robert Penn Warren, Flannery O’Connor, M. E. Bradford, Richard Weaver, and Walker Percy. He also has written essays and reviews for various journals of scholarship and opinion, including Chronicles, Touchstone, The Southern Partisan, Modern Age, The Intercollegiate Review, The South Carolina Review, The Southern Humanities Review, The Chattahoochee Review, and The University Bookman. In 2005, he selected and edited a collection of Montgomery’s essays: On Matters Southern: Essays About Literature and Culture, 1964-2000.

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The books recommended in this episode are:

1. The Complete Stories (also available for Kindle) by Flannery O'Connor
2. Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose (also available for Kindle) by Flannery O'Connor, seleceted and edited by Sally and Robert Fitzgerald
3. The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor (also available for Kindle) by Flannery O'Connor, selected and edited by Sally Fitzgerald
4. A Prayer Journal (also available for Kindle) by Flannery O'Connor
5. Understanding the Hillbilly Thomist: The Philosophical Foundations of Flannery O'Connor's Narrative Art (also available for Kindle) by Fr. Damian Ference

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Lent is just a preparation and spiritual warm-up for Easter. Now that it is Easter, it is time to get down to exercising the Christian life in full. It makes sense, therefore, to keep setting aside some time for reading about the mysteries we celebrate and how we can live them out. Here then are some books and music that might be helpful. For further suggestions, check out last year’s recommendations.

1. Commentary on Saint John the Apostle and Evangelist: Homilies 48-88 by St. John Chrysostom
2. The Resurrection: A Biblical Study by François-Xavier Durrwell CSsR
3. The Old Evangelization: How to Spread the Faith Like Jesus Did by Eric Sammons
4. Understanding Early Christian Art by Robin M. Jensen
5. Thomas Tallis: The Complete English Anthems by The Tallis Scholars, directed by Peter Phillips

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Holy Week should be, insofar as possible, a time of recollection and prayer. To this end, reading one or other of the following books may be useful. It may help us enter more deeply into the mysteries we are celebrating and contemplating.

1. Commentary on Saint John the Apostle and Evangelist: Homilies 48-88 by St. John Chrysostom
2. What is Redemption? by Philippe de la Trinité
3. Jesus and the Jewish Roots of the Eucharist: Unlocking the Secrets of the Last Supper by Brant Pitre
4. The Crucifixion in Irish Art by Peter Harbison
5. Thomas Tallis: The Complete English Anthems by The Tallis Scholars, directed by Peter Phillips

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For further recommendations, you can also check out last year’s list.

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The books reviewed in this episode are:

1. Hearing Bach's Passions by Daniel R. Melamed
2. Lutheranism, Anti-Judaism, and Bach's St. John Passion: With an Annotated Literal Translation of the Libretto by Michael Marissen
3. Bach in Berlin. Nation and Culture in Mendelssohn's Revival of the St. Matthew Passion by Celia Applegate
4. Johann Sebastian Bach's St John Passion. Genesis, Transmission, and Meaning by Alfred Dürr
5. Rethinking Bach by Bettina Varwig

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In this episode, Steve Ray discusses some of the books that can help us understand Genesis.

1. The GPS Torah Commentary: Genesis by Nahum M. Sarna
2. The Commentator's Bible: Genesis by Michael Carasik
3. The Lexham Research Commentary: Genesis 1-11 by Douglas Mangum, Miles Custis, and Wendy Widder
4. On the Literal Interpretation of Genesis (alternative edition) by St. Augustine
5. Genesis: With Introduction, Commentary, and Notes by Curtis Mitch and Scott Hahn
6. Commentary on the Torah : Translated and Annotated: Bereishis/Genesis by Rabbi Moshe Ben Nachman

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The books recommended in this episode are:

1. Saint Thomas Aquinas: The Person and His Work by Jean-Pierre Torrell OP
2. Saint Thomas Aquinas: Spiritual Master by Jean-Pierre Torrell OP
3. Thomas Aquinas: Selected Writings edited and translated by Ralph McInerny
4. Commentary on the Gospel of John (vol. 1) (vol. 2) (vol. 3) by St. Thomas Aquinas
5. Thomas Aquinas's Summa theologiae: A Guide and Commentary by Brian Davies OP

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The recordings recommended in this episode are of:

1. Quatre Motets pour un temps de pénitence by François Poulenc
2. Miserere by Henryk Górecki
3. Triodion by Arvo Pärt
4. Miserere and Videns Dominus by James MacMillan
5. Symphony of Psalms by Igor Stravinsky

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