Book Review: Life of Pi

I am not even going to review this book because I don't want to give anything away. It is an awesome book. Read it! And then maybe we can talk about it on the internet.
Also make sure you don't read the last section of the book right before bed. You will be up all night thinking about it.

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

Awesome book! Read it! Now!

Be Christ

 

Speak with Love

Act in Love

Think as Love

Be Love

Speak With Christ 

Act in Christ 

Think as Christ

Be Christ

Be Love 

Be One

Be All

Be Love

Be Christ

Book Reviews!

I was searching for my next book to read and started to read book reviews.  Not a very good idea because it just made things worse. I kind of want someone to be like here I know you Giovanni and you would like this book! And then I can be like wow that book was awesome! So I am going to do book reviews on my top 5 favorite books. I will try to keep the spoilers to a minimum. So get on the bus! 

5. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho: This book is short awesome and is packed with symbolism.  It is about a young boy who leaves life to become a shepherd and soon finds himself traveling to Egypt in search of treasure.

4. Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card: This book has the world’s smartest children training in space to fight aliens. Need I say more? I can’t tell you who many times I put this book down and was like wow this kid is only 6 or whatever age they were.

3. Ender’s Shadow by Orson Scott Card: Okay I know same author, same saga, but give me a chance. This book takes place during the same time period as Ender’s Game but is the story seen in the eyes of a character named Bean. I mean you know the book is good when I rank it above the original and you basically know how the book is going to end.  

2. Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe: This could be number one but it has been a long time and my memory might be making it better than it was. Any way it is the story from before the Civil War about slavery and made with cry with lines like: “On the lower part of a small, mean boat, on the Red River, Tom sat, - chains on his wrists, chains on his feet, and a weight heavier than chains lay on his heart.”

1. The Great Divorce by C.K. Louis: Get on the bus and take a trip to the afterlife. This story about death gives great insight on how one can live a better life.

Book suggestions and reviews are welcome in the comments. Maybe I will even write more reviews. Let me know what you think about these books after you have read them.   

DO NOT FORGET

We forget so much every day. Maybe a better way of explaining this would be to say certain things come to mind easier than others. There are just certain things we always forget about. Maybe it is because there aren't many reminders, or maybe it is just a really odd fact about an uncommon topic, or just maybe the thing is so common we take it for granted. The fact is we often forget really simple and fundamental things.

One thing I like about being Catholic is that the church reminds us thru her feasts what is really important. For starters I totally forgot about the poor souls of purgatory. I know it is really the worst but who can blame me? There are not that many reminders and I think people don't really like thinking about those in purgatory or anyone in suffering. But they need our prayers. I am so thankful that All Souls day reminded me about these souls and their great need for our prayers. It is not something we should do just one day out of the year but often! I would encourage you to even stop reading now and say a prayer to them. If you want to be really awesome start a novena. (All time favorite novena)

Back to the subject at hand, we can look at the Church’s calendar and feasts to see what she deems as important. 4 weeks to prepare for Christmas, a few weeks to celebrate it, 40 days to prepare for Easter and 50 days to celebrate Easter.   Clearly the passion, death, and resurrection of Jesus are the most important parts of our faith and are not to be forgotten. In fact we are forced to remember these events at every mass. Every mass is perfectly connected with these events so much that they are even made new at every mass. The mass is the center of our faith and should never be treated lightly.

So what else is important? Well for starters Mary has a ton of feast days.  This list of 19 marks the ones celebrated by the whole church.  And then you have the First Saturday devotions and the months of May and October dedicated to her.  Mary is clearly an important part of our faith.   She should be our template to achieve holiness.  When you look at the great saints, especially those of the last few hundred years, it is hard to find one that does not have a Devotion to Mary.

Our Lady and the Eucharist are two things we should never forget. NEVER…