BOOK CONVERSATIONS!
Join us quarterly for coffee, bagels, and a light discussion about what we've reading (or listening to) recently. First meeting in July 2022.
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Books & Bagels, past selections:
2022
April - #Rules of Engagement by Ann Garrido
March - Let This Be the Time by Sr. Janet Schaeffler
February - Black Catholics on the Road to Sainthood by Michael R. Heinlein
January - Living the Mass by Fr. Grassi and Joe Paprocki
2021
November - Barking to the Choir by Gregory Boyle, S.J
October- When St. Francis Saved the Church by Jon. Sweeney
September - A Saint of Our Own by Kathleen Sprows Cummings
July - Embracing the Way of Jesus by Pope Francis
June - Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion by Gregory Boyle
2020
January - Overdue:A Dewey Decimal System of Grace by Valerie Schultz
February- Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
March -Fleeing Castro: Operation Pedro Pan and the Cuban Children's Program by Victor Andres Triay
2019
December - Would you Baptize an Extraterrestial? And other questions from the Astronomers’ Inbox at the Vatican Observatory by Guy Consolmagno, SJ and Paul Mueller
November - The Simple Faith of Mr. Rogers by Amy Hollingsworth
October - The Second Mountain: Quest for a Moral Life by David Brooks
September- Roundtable discussion on what we read this summer
June / July / August - Summer Reading on your own (suggested books: The Long Loneliness by Dorothy Day, The World’s First Love by Fulton Sheen, The Way of the Heart by Henri Nouwen, The Violent Bear It Away by Flannery O’Connor, Why We’re Catholic: Our Reasons for Faith, Hope and Love by Trent Horn, Eight Whopping Lies and Other Stories of Bruised Grace by Brian Doyle)
May: Manalive by G.K. Chesterton
April: The Return of the Prodigal Son by Henri Nouwen
March: Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
February: Catholic Spiritual Practices: A treasury of Old and New edited by Colleen Griffith & Thomas Groome.
January: Francis de Sales: Essential Writings by Wendy M. Wright
2018
December: The Soul of Christmas by Thomas Moore
November: Dorothy Day: an Intimate Portrait of my Grandmotherby Kate Hennessy
October: Everyone Leads: How to Revitalize the Catholic Church by Chris Lowney
July / August / September - Summer Reading Challenge.
June: Positively Catholic by Michael Leach
May: Night by Elie Wiesel (A New Translation from the French by Marion Wiesel)
April: A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age by Matt Richtel
March: The Shepherd Who Didn't Run by Maria Ruiz Scaperlanda
February: To Light a Fire on Earth: Proclaiming the Gospel in a Secular Age by Bishop Robert Barron.
January: Thrift Store Saints: Meeting Jesus 25 cents at a time by Jane Knuth.
2017
December: None (book swap)
November: Wish You Were Here: travels through loss and hope by Amy Welborn
October: What's so Funny about Faith by Jake Martin
September: Prayer, Our Deepest Longing by Ronald Rolheiser (postponed by Irma / Discussed in October)
August - Walk in a Relaxed Manner by Joyce Rupp. OR Discovering El Camino by Fr. Greg Markey.
July: none
June: The God Box by Mary Lou Quinlan
May: A Good Man is Hard to Find & Other Stories by Flannery O’Connor
April - The Second Greatest Story Ever Told by Fr. Michael E. Gaitley, MIC
March - Everybody Needs to Forgive Somebody by Alan Hunt
February - How God Changes Your Brain by Andrew Newberg, MS and Mark Robert Waldman
January - Thy Will be Done: Letters to Persons in the World by Saint Francis de Sales
2016
Reaching Out by Henri Nouwen
My Life with the Saints by Fr. James Martin, S.J.
What's so Great about Christianity by Dinesh D'Souza
Five Years in Heaven by John Schlimm
The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis