I Can Has Theologeez? Part 3

The lovely Everly Pleasant asked me about my Theological studies, and as it fills up a post's worth of space. she agreed to allow me to post it here! So...

Everly,

Currently, I'm making my way through the Bible as always. I'm jumping around a lot because it's rather slow going this time: I'm not only reading it in English, but also in the Latin Vulgate, the exhaustive and unparalleled work of St. Jerome which brought the Scriptures, up until that point written in several languages dependent upon who penned them and when, all together under one language.

I'm reading a book called My Catholic Faith as well, which is intended for middle schoolers, I believe, give or take a couple of years, but is really quite great. It's very simple and straightforward and lays down in no uncertain terms the tenants of the Faith. I appreciate it, since I never really got a complete education on the core points that make one Catholic rather than anything else.

I'm looking for a good translation of St. Thoma Aquinas' Summa Theologica, and in the meantime I've been reading the Confessions of St. Augustine. They're less theological, and more of a memoir, but it makes them approachable. St. Augustine knew better than most the healing power of Grace, and the staggering scope of God's mercy to the truly contrite, and that makes his writings especially touching.

On top of this, of course, layered the article I linked too a while back on the Theology and Spirituality of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre's Open Letter to Confused Catholics, aaaaand...

A fantastic little book called Where We Got the Bible by the Rev. Henry Grey Graham, the text of which can be found here; http://www.catholicapologetics.info/apologetics/protestantism/wbible.htm

Everybody who loves and reveres the Bible ought to read it. It's taken from a series of talks he gave to audiences of Catholics and Protestants, so it's very conversational, very quick, and at times quite witty. He is Scottish and preaches like a Scotsman, if that gives you any idea. It's more than a book about the Catholic Church's role in the creation of the Bible, it's a defense of the validity and applicability of Scripture itself. There are a few passages in there that ought to be in the arsenal of every advocate of home education, as well.

And there you have it! You know, there was a Methodist preacher in New England once named Jonathan Edwards who read so much he built himself a rotating, six sided table so that he could always have six  books open at once...I may have to get something to that effect.