From A Primer of Ecclesiastical Latin by John

F. Collins

Part 2 of a talk by Luigi Giussani. Text can be found here: http://www.crossroadsnyc.com/files/RelAwareness.pdf

"Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being." - Fyodor Dostoevsky, in a letter to his brother, M. M. Dostoevsky, August 16, 1839

A talk by Luigi Giussani. Text can be found here: http://www.crossroadsnyc.com/files/RelAwareness.pdf

A friend sent this to me. By Conor Dugan. The whole thing

with a little explanation of the letter's origin can be found here: https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2021/10/28/a-letter-to-a-priest-in-crisis/

The Religious Sense by Luigi Giussani, Chapter 2.

Ch. 2 - The Second Premise: Reasonableness

- Reasonableness: A Structural Requirement of Man

- Reductive Use of Reason

- Diversity of Procedures

- A Particularly Important Procedure

- An Application of the Method of Moral Certainty: Faith

The Religious Sense by Luigi Giussani, Chapter 1.

Ch. 1 - The First Premise: Realism

- Our Subject

- The Method of Research is Imposed by the Object: A Reflection on One's Own Experience

- Experience Implies an Evaluation

- Criterion for the Evaluation

- Elementary Experience

- Man, The Ultimate Judge?

- Ascesis for Liberation

Reasons.

By Pope John Paul II. This meditation was originally signed on 8 February 1994 (six days after Pope St. John Paul II signed Letter to Families), but was not printed until 2006 (Acta Apostolicae Sedis 98, no. 8 [4 August 2006]: 628-38). Published with permission in the journal Communio. Translated by Maria MacKinnon.

Reading from Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book by Walker Percy. Section of Ch. 11 on depression. Pages 75-79