{"id":1546,"date":"2010-01-01T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-01T00:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/yimcatholic\/2010\/01\/because-of-the-pleasure-of-finding-things-out\/"},"modified":"2015-01-28T11:32:16","modified_gmt":"2015-01-28T16:32:16","slug":"because-of-the-pleasure-of-finding-things-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/yimcatholic\/2010\/01\/because-of-the-pleasure-of-finding-things-out.html","title":{"rendered":"Because of the Pleasure of Finding Things Out"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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I am sitting in a friend\u2019s house in Southern California surrounded by books one minute into New Year\u2019s Day. <\/span>My friends are devout Catholics and have many volumes that are of interest to me. Everything from The Cure D\u2019Ars: St. Jean-Marie-Baptiste Vianney<\/a>\"\"<\/span> to a pamphlet entitled Confession: A Little Book for the Reluctant<\/a>\"\". <\/span><\/p>\n

There are books here, and in my public library at home, covering the whole spectrum of Catholic Christianity. I could spend weeks, months, a lifetime reading through these selections. And I intend to do so. This quote by Horace Walpole sums up my experience since I started this journey in 2006:<\/p>\n

The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Which brings me to the title of this post, taken from a book in the library here written by the physicist Richard P. Feynman. I\u2019m not really interested in Feynman\u2019s book, but his title is apt for my purposes: The Pleasure of Finding Things Out<\/a>\"\"<\/em>. With the Bible and the Liturgy of the Hours in one hand, and volume after volume of great works that illuminate them both in the other, I find myself a happy Catholic ready to celebrate a Happy New Year.<\/p>\n

St. Augustine\u2019s Confessions <\/a>\"\"? Barely got past the dust cover, so that is on my \u201cbucket list\u201d of Catholic books to read. Aquinas? Looking forward to it. I\u2019ve read de Osuna\u2019s Third Spiritual Alphabet<\/a>,<\/em> and that is outstanding. Webster likes the Catholic fiction like Kristin Lavrinsdatter, <\/span>while I really enjoy the nonfiction works of the Early Church Fathers.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll probably read this one this year as well: , The Grunt Padre<\/a>\"\"<\/span>the biography of Lt. Vincent Capadonno, USNR, a Roman Catholic Chaplain who was awarded the Medal of Honor serving with the 5th Marines in Vietnam.<\/p>\n

Learning about our Faith is a real joy. What is on your Catholic-book bucket list for this year? Now, to bed and up early for the Tournament of Roses Parade. Happy New Year and Happy Reading!<\/p>\n

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