About

The religious order to which I have a connection limits my primary reading to around a dozen books. My little library is, in a way, deep in history and consists of:

Christianity

Bible, Revised Standard Version
Gregorian Missal; Solesmes Abbey
The Liturgy of the Hours; unabridged
The Confessions; Saint Augustine
De Potentia Dei; St Thomas Aquinas
Dante’s Paradise; Anthony Esolen
Eleven Plays; William Shakespeare
Poetry; by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Collected Works; Flannery O’Connor
The Priority of Christ; Robert Barron
Jesus of Nazareth; Pope Benedict XVI
Compendium of the Catholic Catechism

I entered the Catholic Church on Easter 2007 at an age of fifty seven, having come from a charismatic Wesleyan background.

I have the luxury of setting my own curriculum, in the establishment of which I’ve found useful A.G. Sertillanges’ little book, The Intellectual Life. My own investigations center around the apparent paradox of Christologies seeming to be close together when their related Ecclesiologies are far apart.

We live in the 9th & 9th neighborhood of Salt Lake City, on the Wasatch Range in Utah at the western side of the Rocky Mountains, having moved there from the Virginia section of the Southern Blue Ridge Province in the Appalachian Mountains. I’m a member of St Ambrose parish and go there for daily Mass.