Is your brain hungry for some thought-provoking stimulation instead of the mindless drivel we all encounter every day in our culture?  Have you been searching for some great masterpieces of literature that will enrich your life?  Would you enjoy meeting some like-minded Catholics who can appreciate the richness of a well-crafted book?  The Christian intellectual tradition has a depth and breadth that is without parallel in the history of ideas.  A new group has formed to explore those ideas through the finest examples of our literary heritage and the major interlocutors within our Catholic tradition.

Participants meet on Tuesdays in the Common Room of the Rectory at St. Alphonsus Church, 1429 W. Wellington in Chicago. Some of the works already covered include Dante’s “Divine Comedy,” Milton’s “Paradise Lost,”  “Brideshead Revisited,” and St. Augustine’s “Confessions.”  Recently, the group has also read the work of St. Thomas More, G. K. Chesterton, and St. Alphonsus Liguori.  Blessed John Paul II’s brilliant “Faith and Reason” was a recent reading.  Suggestions for future readings are always welcome.

If you would like more information about this new group, please telephone St. Alphonsus Church at (773) 525-0709 for details.  Why not take advantage of this opportunity to give your mind something to think about while savoring the joy of reading works submitted by some of Catholicism’s greatest thinkers?  You’ll be glad you did.