This is a refreshing ‘tangent’ (if you will) to Lent. Having grown up in a Catholic home, my parents always required we give something up for Lent, and often times it was potato chips (which was the same thing Mom gave up and since she was the one who purchased them, it was natural we’d give them up too ). I never really understood the purpose of Lent though until years later.

Looks like a bold plan- 10 books! Keep us posted!

Though City of God is a pretty long book even abridged. A little difficult to go through – but fruitful – there is a lot of important things going on in that book that still apply today.

His Confessions of course is one of the best and most important books I have ever read. Pure genius in being the first spiritual biography. Just thinking of some of the lines from that book can bring tears to my eyes.

Then of course adding in Augustine Scholar and our Pope gives a good mixture.