The Parish Book Group will take a break in July and August and will next meet on Wednesday, September 17 in the Parish Center at 7PM. The Summer 2014 selection is Strange Gods: Unmasking the Idols in Everyday Life by Elizabeth Scalia, published by Ave Maria Press.
In her review for The Catholic Beat, Gail Deibler Finke wrote that “Idolatry isn’t a thing of the past, Elizabeth Scalia says in her new book, Strange Gods. It’s part of everyday life. We make idols when we love our idea of a thing more than truth. Because our ideas are inevitably bound up with ourselves, our idols become gods—ourselves reflected back to us in with enthralling glamour, brooking no criticism or questions. ‘We dismiss the golden calf story at our peril,’ Scalia says, ‘because worshiping an idol means more than bowing down before a statue. It means preferring our ideas about things to reality. And because God is Truth, it means preferring them to God.’”
Everyone is welcome to join our parish group, meet your parishioners, enjoy a good read and participate in lively discussions!