Unsure, he teaches at seminary near Mexico City (or a rectory, unsure) and there's a library in there full of these good books

I found a lutheran set of those a while back, I prefer prayer books though. Tend to have more character to them for the sake of preservation

Most decent missals have dozens of prayers aside from those of the Mass.

My missal has a prayer for just about everything.

The next step is to create and write down your own prayers

I have a select few.

Yeah, the seperation tends to capture more personal devotions though. I found a pre-V2 prayer book filled with notes and markers a while back, gave it to my girlfriend's mom for Christmas after she got diagnosed with cancer. She told me she was following the notes and that she never knew most of the prayers even existed, and she's taken it everywhere since she started chemo. Turned out to be a real trasure.

A friend of my mother healed from phase 4 cancer thanks to the constant prayers if it helps

It's pretty bad right now, but I'm not afraid for her, I know where she's headed, I'm just worried about the rest of the family. Cancer's a bitch. Praying first for comfort, then for healing

Let us hope that, if the worst happens, God will give the family the strength that they need

This should be relevant: http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/1904.htm

Indeed. But it is rather frivolous to be 100% sure of somebody's salvation. So it is always prudent to pray that God will have mercy on their soul, even for the holiest priest or most devout nun.

> be me
> every modern movie is trash
> stuck watching old movies
> I'll just read a book then
> start reading a book about German history (Memories of a Nation by Neil MacGregor)
> it's pretty good, wonder who's the author
> he's gay
> drop it and pick up a really dry history book that just states fact after fact (Germany: A History, by Francis Russell)
> at least this won't have an agenda
> read it for a while
> it's pretty dry
> fine, how about a historical novel, that will be fun
> pick up one about a church builder in medieval england (The Pillars of the Earth, by Ken Follett)
> sounds wholesome
> the church builder's family is starving in the woods, his wife dies in childbirth, he leaves the baby to die of exposure, his kids had to watch the whole thing, a girl he has a crush on happens to show up, and he has explicit sex with her next to his sleeping kids
> mfw

I guess I'm stuck reading old books, too

I recommend The Book of Atrus

Thanks, I'm pretty picky about fantasy these days though

I have to find in them something to tie to reality

e.g. as a thought experiment

In an attempt to expand my knowledge of the typical classics, I have started reading Marco Polo.

Nice.

I recommend the bibble

Same

I recommend reading Uncle Ted

@Arkona 92 by who?

@Marcus that is the name of the author

Lmao

Industrial Society and It's Future

Also, anyone have an opinion on Flatland? I read it a while back but haven't had anyone to talk about it with

@Arkona 92 what books then?

Can't tell who you mean with Google

Ted Nugent?

Industrial Society and Its Future

Lol

Unabomber

Ahh

No thanks

The book is actually really solid, even if he was a bit overzealous he wasn't crazy

@Marcus Don't forget the detailed sexual assault and rape scenes, including the scenes you already mentioned. I have read some detailed horrible scenes, but this book sort of right hooked me in the jaw through it's suddenness. I had to lay it away for a short wile to let it all sink in.
Although medieval life was harsh, the author makes it all look almost inhuman. And the original protagonist is a degenerate, and a lot of characters seem to care less about chastity and and upright life, in a time that valued it with proportion. They act more on instinct than anything else.
Would not say it is a dumbsterfire of a book but it needs some censoring for it general enjoyment.

@Wzl It's a shame how post-modernists always try to retroactively insert sex into every crevice of stuff like this.. the author must have a pretty disgusting personal life

It's also funny how quickly in the beginning of the book he has to introduce the girl who acts like a boy and was raised by men in the ways of being manly

And is a master of hunting and skinning and general bushcraft etc