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This book is going to take me an impossibly long time to read at this rate. It’s a Lutheran seminary’s take on religions in America, starting with Orthodoxy and Catholicism, in the 1950s (pre-Vatican II).

This book is great. Part II provides a level-headed summary of Fatima and Medjugorje and ties those apparitions together with the lesser known Garabandal.

Onto November, a month to give thanks!

It’s almost October 🎃

I love Lucy’s childlike purity. I can’t remember how the story ends, but I’m looking forward to it!

Finished Joshua, Judges, Ruth (which is a punchline to a joke, I’m certain).

We like the book so far! Eustace’s side adventure is topical of our current times, and spoiler, it involves a dragon.

Do the limits of poetry stifle or encourage creativity?

My kids and I are enjoying David’s adventure, but it sure is graphic!

There is so much that I can learn from the saints about parenting, but I shouldn’t fully compare myself to them or else I may despair and lose hope.

Happy National Book Lovers Day! ❤️📚

This book is hilarious.

I’ve never been this excited to read footnotes.

This book doesn’t seem to have as many pictures as the first book, but it’s as good as I remember (so far)!

These prompts are challenging my soul in new ways!

Today’s virtue is “faith.” The language in some of these meditations are a little too flowery, so I have to read them a few times to get it.

I finished the first volume (blue). I’m going to take a short break before finishing these works. The messages are amazing. I encourage you all to look up Ruth Ann Wade’s 1997 testimony on YouTube.

My kids and I are flying through this book together. Poor Edmund chased foolishly after the taste of Turkish Delight and missed out on so many graces and gifts (and Father Christmas!). The parallels in this book are obvious and yet deeper than at first glance.

Two chapters left, and I’m still trying to discern how I feel about this book…

I fell behind in this consecration, but I’m catching up! Each day has a virtue to contemplate. Today is day 11 (patience).

We are reading this series to my toddlers. ❤️

Another month wrapped up. We are halfway through 2025!

Just found out the bird “cardinal” was named after the person “cardinal” because of the red vestments.

Halfway through the first volume

The second story in this book is a novel in itself.

Here we are at the last day of May, the last day of the Chaos. Onward into June, the month of the Sacred Heart!