Dominicans Saving Libraries in Iraq

From NPR:

"There have been Dominican monks in the city of Mosul since about 1750. They amassed a library of thousands of ancient manuscripts and say they brought the printing press to Iraq in the early 1800s...As an Islamist insurgency roiled Mosul in 2008, monks smuggled their library out, bit by bit...'The father or mother try to save the first thing--the children,' [Fr. Michaeel] says. 'So these books [are] my children."

Read the whole story here.

Pray for all Christians in the Middle East.

There are books everywhere...

"There are books everywhere and only a few are necessary."

A.G. Sertillanges

St. Dominic, Reading

St. Dominic reads, in a healthy balance of prayer and study.

Happy Feast Day!

Sertillanges on Reading

"I distinguish for kinds of reading. One reads for one's formation and to become somebody; one reads in view of a particular task; one reads to acquire a habit of work and the love of what is good; one reads for relaxation. There is fundamental reading, accidental reading, stimulating or edifying reading, recreative reading."

-A.G. Sertillanges, O.P.