What I am Reading…
Feb 13th, 2008 by michelle
I think it is time for me to read Great Lent:Journey to Pascha by Alexander Schmemann. It seems to be what a lot of people are reading this Lent or have read in previous years. Tonight I ordered it online and it should be here in a few days.
Right now, these are the books piled on my nightstand (in order from top to bottom):
- my Bible (I’m glad that one isn’t buried underneath the others)
- The Ascetic of Love: Mother Gavrilia by Nun Gavrilia
- The Open Door by Frederica-Mathewes Green
- Let Us Attend by Fr. Lawrence Farley
- The Year of Grace of the Lord
- … and.. completely nonreligious, Evelina by Frances Burney (I got this “classic” for about a dollar, but haven’t gotten that far into it)
Now I will have another Orthodox book to place on my nightstand, but I am determined to get through this one. I admit that I haven’t been reading as I should be and I hope that during Lent I will be able to get back to reading again. I am certain that I will be able to read through “Great Lent”; but I would like to lessen the pile a bit as well. I’ll let you know how it goes!
We read this last year and it was really good. I’d like to go through it again, but not sure if this will be the year or not!
I ‘m going to try to read this during Lent this year, too.
Great Lent is such a wonderful, practical book. I always find encouragement from each new reading of it.
A couple of years ago on the Orthodork blog (email me if you need the link) there was a way to break it into 40 readings, and read one a day during Lent. It was the perfect way to read it.
I totally read non-Orthodox stuff too. It’s all good.
I read Great Lent for the first time last year, and put it on my list of books to read once a year.
And over the course of the past year, I forgot all about it. ;^) That’s partly a function of having too many books (if that’s possible), and getting old (probably the real reason).
So when our priest mentioned it at class last Friday night as a good preparation for Lent, I remembered: “Aha! I’m supposed to read that book again!”
You will no doubt love it.