What I am reading

The Morning Watch by James Agee, published 1950

This book was lent to me in Lent by a parishioner, and it is about a boy taking a shift in the Garden Watch on Maundy Thursday/Good Friday while away at Anglican prep boarding school in Tennessse. I started it in March/April and put it down and picked it up again this week and am enjoying it very much.

My Life with the Saints by James Martin, S.J., published 2006

James Martin is an editor of America Magazine, a weekly Jesuit publication. This book chronicles how different saints have influenced his vocation, with a short biography of each. Fr. Martin graduated from the University of Pennsylvania the year I arrived there, and he throws in little stories from Penn that ring familiar to me.