The books my book's been reading

All the books* cited in Building the Benedict Option

*Mostly books, listed in order of first appearance

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And somehow I never managed to get an explicit recommendation of The Little Oratory into the text, but I heartily recommend it.

"When I first saw Rembrandt’s Prodigal Son, I could never have dreamt that becoming the repentant son was only a step on the way to becoming the welcoming father. I see now that the hands that for- give, console, heal, and offer a festive meal must become my own." — Fr. Henri Nouwen, The Return of the Prodigal Son

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"The 'world out there' doesn’t want men to dance together or gather in the local parks and sing in harmony ’round kegs of beer. That which, in a less constricted but better ordered society, is emblematic of peace and good- will, is likely to be regarded as disturbing the peace in our own." — Ray Oldenburg, The Great Good Place

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"An intellectual heresy can be met by the weapons of the intellect; a moral protest, such as that of the Waldenses, can only be met by a rival moral protest within the Church itself. [...] It was not only the learning of the [Dominican] Friars, but their poverty, their chastity, the simplicity of their lives and manners, that saved Europe for the faith." — Ronald Knox, Captive Flames: On Selected Saints and Christian Heroes