A New Addition to the Site: Augustine’s De Civitate Dei

My attention is tossed about like a boat in a storm at times, while at others it is firmly  and stubbornly anchored as a deeply rooted, 200 year-old oak.  I oscillate easily between the two states as my passions wax & wane. This is an admonition that progress and quality of content will often come in fits…

Why Learn Latin – From the Obvious & Beyond

I started this web site nearly two week ago now...  I've articulated - perhaps overly so - why I started this site.  The seed from which this site is growing was learning a language [Latin] I had no business learning, given my utter failures to learn any language outside of my native English.  I was thoroughly…

Report: Significant Progress in the Formatting of the OFFICIA PIETATIS

I have made some significant progress in formatting many of the first several sections of Officia Pietatis. The first part of the prayer book's format is  completed as well as many of the other sections. Take a look here and scroll around.  Some of the formatting may seem a bit random.  However, I assure you…

First Post: What was I Thinking? – the Long & the Short of it…

The creation of this site can be traced back to when I started collecting books about twenty years ago. Roughly, 14 years ago, after reading Homer's Iliad & The Odyssey,  I decided to learn Latin so that I could read Virgil's continuation of the story in the original language - The Æneid.  As I progressed, very slowly but steadily, I discovered that eBay had a much better selection of books in Latin to read than any bookstore - new or used.  It was obvious that the largest selection of Latin was ecclesiastical - by a very large margin.  I decided to purchase a book on Moral Theology by a Jesuit priest from the year 1748...