December Meeting

The next meeting of the Society is Sunday, December 1 at 7:00 PM in the rectory.  We'll be finishing The Club of Queer Trades.

November Meeting

The next meeting will be on November 3 at 7:00 PM in the rectory.  We will be discussing chapters 1-3 of The Club of Queer Trades.

Another step toward St. GKC

A further step has been taken in the process toward canonization of GKC!

September Meeting

The next meeting will be September 29 at 7:00.  We'll be finishing The Man Who Was Thursday.

Rochester GKC Conference

Ellen sent more information about the GKC conference taking place in Rochester, NY Saturday, September 21.

Chesterton on the Air

Ellen Finan from the Warren Chesterton Society was interviewed recently on Living Bread Radio.  She makes a plug for many of the local Chesterton societies, including our very own, and even talks about our web page!  Thanks, Ellen.  You can listen online.

August Meeting

The next meeting will be August 25 at 7:00 PM.  We will be discussing the first eight (yes EIGHT!) chapters of The Man Who Was Thursday.

RESCHEDULED JULY MEETING

The postponed meeting has been rescheduled for July 28 at 7:00 PM.  See everyone there!

July Meeting Postponed! UPDATE

The July meeting will NOT be held this Sunday, July 21.  Sorry for the inconvenience.

Stay tuned for further updates for the rescheduled event.

UPDATE: The postponed meeting has been rescheduled for July 28 at 7:00 PM.

July Meeting

Our next meeting will be July 21 at 7:00 PM in the rectory.  We'll be finish discussing St. Thomas Aquinas.

June meeting

For all the wags out there who leave sarcastic comments, I'm posting the next meeting time WELL in advance.

The June meeting will be Sunday, 6/23 at 7:00 PM in the rectory loggia, weather and space permitting. Since the group has grown quite a bit recently, we may eventually have to migrate to Forest Lodge across the street.  If you think you'll be at the next meeting, please leave a comment so we can get an idea of how many members we'll have there.

We finished St Francis of Assisi in May; in June, we'll be discussing the first four chapters of St. Thomas Aquinas.

May meeting

We'll be meeting on Sunday, May 19 in the rectory at 7:00 PM and discussing the last chapters of GKC's St Francis of Assisi.

If you have any ideas about what should be next on our reading list, let us know.

April meeting

At the March meeting, there were many new faces!  Welcome to all.   We finished the Four Faultless Felons.

Our next meeting will be April 14 (same time and place).  We will read the first half (chapters 1-5) of Chesterton's St. Francis of Assisi.

Anuntio vobis gaudium magnum habemus papam chestertonianam

This post from the Italian Chesterton Society:

Pare che Papa Francesco sia socio della Società Chestertoniana Argentina.
It seems that Pope Francis is a member of the Argentine Chesterton Society.

This should not really be surprising given His Holiness' love of literature--he has evidently read a lot of Borges who, as we all know, was a big fan of GKC.

Our corresponding secretary will make inquiries with our sociedad homóloga in Argentina and report back.

Fr. Brown on the Little Screen

Another update from Ellen:

BBC produced and broadcast a new 10 episode Fr. Brown series for its daytime television this year. It proved popular and they are filming 10 more episodes.
You can now watch them on YouTube! They are charming in their own way, but they have taken some liberties with the plots and characters; and it is set in the 1950's.

You'll want to check them out, anyway. 

 Here is "The flying stars".  You can find the rest on YouTube!

Radio Spot

From fellow Chestertonian Ellen:

Chestertonians-

The 12 minute interview for Catholic Radio went well. I think I hit the high points, though as you know, after you finish something like this, you keep thinking of things you should have said!
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The interviewer was a really nice young guy, great interviewer, easy to talk to. He knew nothing about GKC! Maybe I convinced him to pick him up sometime.
The series is called "Around the Town" and they are interviewing a variety of local groups for it. It won't start airing till after Easter, but it will be weekly on WLIB on Saturday mornings either right before or following my friend Melinda Knight's "Life Line" program: either 10:30 or 11:30 a.m. I'll let you know when our episode is scheduled.

The radio station houses St Raphael's Catholic bookstore, and it is wonderful. They have a great selection and I dropped some serious money there before I left! Please recommend it to others who may be looking for a Catholic bookstore in Stark County. Yes, they stock some GKC titles...of course I had to ask

March Meeting

The next meeting of the St. Sebastian Chesterton Society will be March 17 at 7:00 in the rectory.  We'll be finishing up The Four Faultless Felons.

February Meeting

The next meeting will be February 17 at 7:00 PM in the rectory. We'll be discussing the first half of The Four Faultless Felons. For more information about the St. Sebastian Chesterton Society, please contact mattwyszynski1 [at] gmail [dot] com.

January meeting

January's meeting will be Sunday, January 27 at 7:00 PM in the rectory. We'll be finishing The Ball and the Cross. (Sorry this was posted so late.)

We have already mentioned the screen versions of G.K.'s famous Fr. Brown. Turner Classic Movies is showing the 1954 film THE DETECTIVE, starring Alec Guinness as Fr. Brown this Wed. afternoon, January 16th, at 2 p.m. You might want to watch it or record it. An experience Guinness had while filming started him on the road to conversion to Catholicism. See the story here. HT to Ellen F.