January Meeting

Since the November meeting was so late in the month and since Advent and Christmas are busy times for everyone, we will not meet in December.

January's meeting will be on the 25th in the rectory at 7:00 PM.  We'll read the next seven chapters of Heretics.

November Meeting

Our next meeting will be November 23 at 7:00 PM in the rectory.  We'll read the first six chapters of Chesterton's Heretics.  Various formats can be found at the Project Gutenberg site.  After the meeting, we will adjourn to the brick parking lot for an auto da fé, weather permitting.  Volunteers are needed.

October Meeting

In this post, I am going to explain to you when the October meeting will be and what will be read.  We will read The Great Heresies, including the chapter on Protestantism, which is fitting as October 26, when we will be meeting at 7:00 PM, is Reformation Sunday.  To understand why will meet on October 26, one must also understand the social and historical milieu in which the decision to meet that day was made....
later in this post, we will talk about the November meeting, but now I will explain the October meeting.  The October meeting will be on the 26th at 7:00 in the rectory.  We will finish Belloc's work.

Dale Ahlquist in Youngstown

St. Dominic's Parish Hall
77 E. Lucius Avenue
Youngstown Ohio

$5 at the Door

Saturday, October 4, 2014, Doors open at 6 p.m.: Refreshments and books for sale

7 p.m. Talk by Dale Ahlquist, President of the American Chesterton Society and host of EWTN's "Apostle of Common Sense" television series

Topic: "G. K. Chesterton, St. Francis and St. Thomas Aquinas"

All are welcome!

For more information, contact Ellen Finan efinan57@gmail.com

Chesterton in the News

Ellen Finan sends us this article about GKC and the Little Flower.  Very interesting.

September Meeting

It was an enjoyable to change the format of the meeting in August and watch a video of Dr. Dermot Quinn speaking at the Beaconsfield Chesterton Conference.  We will also be doing something a little different for our September and October meeting: reading a non-Chesterton work, The Great Heresies by Hilaire Belloc.

The link I've included above is a pdf version of the page found on the EWTN site.  It will be easier to keep track of quotes and such if we all follow this edition for our meeting, but there is also a site that has the text files of the book, but the formatting is not very good.  There is no free Kindle edition (though one is available for $.99, and isn't that G.B. Shaw pictured with that edition?), nor is there an edition available through Project Gutenberg, and of course, you can always get ahold of a print copy from a bookstore or the library.

So, his dictis, we will read the the introductory materials and the first two heresies--the Arians and the "Great and Enduring" heresy of Mohamed.  We'll meet on September 7 at 7:00 PM.

August Meeting

The next meeting will be on Sunday, July 27 (this is our August meeting) at 7:00 PM.  We will be watching a video of a talk by Dr Dermot Quinn on ’Wholeness and Holiness’ from the Beaconsfield Chesterton Conference.  You can also listen to an audio version.  The video is about 53 minutes long.

Thanks to Mike for providing the links.

The New GKC Biography

From Ellen Finan from the next Society to the east:

This is a good read. It goes beyond the standard book review and makes some interesting points of its own. Also brings in what other literary critics have to say about GKC, including Harold Bloom.
From the June 2014 New Oxford Review. Thanks to Anita Gorman for the link.

July Meeting

The July meeting will be held June 29 at 7:00 PM in the rectory.  We will be discussing "The Logic of Lawn Tennis" and "Humanitarianism and Strength."

June Meeting

We will meet at 7:00 PM in the rectory on June 1st for this month's meeting.  Two of G.K.'s many essays, Asparagus and Chalk, were chosen for this month's readings.

May Meeting

The May meeting will be on May 4.  We'll be reading two essays: Why Wine is Red and Cheese.  My guess is that we will be drinking wine and eating cheese, too.

April Meeting

This month's meeting will be Sunday 4/13 at 7:00.  We'll be finishing our discussion of Man Alive.

Sorry for the last minute post!

March Meeting

The next meeting will be March 9 at 7:00 PM at the rectory.  We will be discussing part one of Manalive.

February Meeting

The next meeting will be February 9 at 7:00 PM in the rectory.  We'll finish The Surprise.  No surprises about who stole the show at the last meeting.  We had a great time, and no need to read ahead!

January Meeting

The January meeting is schedule for January 12 at 7:00 PM.  We will be reading The Surprise (the not adapted for television version).

The plan is to do a dramatic reading and to discuss each act (or maybe scene) as we finish it.  We may not even get through one act.