On Sunday, August 12, we will meet in the community room following the 11:00am mass to discuss “Joan of Arc: A Life Transfigured” by Kathryn Harrison. Below is a short description of the book:
Every era must retell and reimagine the Maid of Orleans's extraordinary story in its own way, and in
Joan of Arc: A Life Transfigured, the superb novelist and memoirist Kathryn Harrison gives us a Joan for our time—a shining exemplar of unshakable faith, extraordinary courage, and self-confidence during a brutally rigged ecclesiastical inquisition and in the face of her death by burning. Deftly weaving historical fact, myth, folklore, artistic representations, and centuries of scholarly and critical interpretation into a compelling narrative, she restores Joan of Arc to her rightful position as one of the greatest heroines in all of human history.
Our upcoming book picks are as follows:
September - “The Emergent Christ” by Ilia Delio
October - “Galileo’s Daughter” by Dava Sobel
November - “The Smile of a Ragpicker: The Life of Satoko Kitahara - Convert and Servant of the Slums of Tokyo” by Fr. Paul Glynn