AnneLine Posted March 19, 2014 Posted March 19, 2014 (edited) Translations can make a big difference, DC. If you don't have the Otillio Rodriguez/Kieran Kavanaugh translation you might want to hunt it up... especially look for the 'study edition' that was published by the institute of Carmelite Studies (ICS) over the last few years... lots of stuff that will help you to understand what Teresa is saying better. AND you might want to start with another of St. Teresa's books, The Way of Perfection, because knowing what she says in there will help A LOT. (silly typos!) Edited March 19, 2014 by AnneLine
OnlySunshine Posted March 19, 2014 Posted March 19, 2014 Translations can make a big difference, DC. If you don't have the Otillio Rodriguez/Kieran Kavanaugh translation you might want to hunt it up... especially look for the 'study edition' that was published by the institute of Carmelite Studies (ICS) over the last few years... lots of stuff that will help you to understand what Teresa is saying better. AND you might want to start with another of St. Teresa's books, The Way of Perfection, because knowing what she says in there will help A LOT. (silly typos!) I personally thought that "The Way of Perfection" was a more difficult read than "The Interior Castle." I learned a lot from the latter, and still remember most of it to this day. It was a big help. I also loved reading "Abandonment to Divine Providence" and "I Believe in Love."
TheresaThoma Posted March 20, 2014 Posted March 20, 2014 (I think I will stick with St Thomas Aquinas' commentary on the Gospel of St John. What you all are describing makes it look simple!)
DiscerningCatholic Posted March 20, 2014 Author Posted March 20, 2014 I have the translation by the Benedictines of Stanbrook...picked it up in Barnes and Noble a few years ago.
andibc Posted March 20, 2014 Posted March 20, 2014 Read mansions 3-6. Trust me, you're not in the first and it's very unlikely you're in the second. I had the same problem when I was younger and never got beyond the first mansion until I was in my 30s. You can always go back and read the earlier mansions some other time. Her flowery language and tangents are hard for some of us to take, but just make yourself read it. I much prefer St. John of the Cross.
Eowyn Posted March 21, 2014 Posted March 21, 2014 Aha...I bought a copy of that around 2 years ago and am STILL stuck on the first two paragraphs. :| Ha, I have a copy of the City of God that I bought in 2009? And I'm still on the first page. I think I'm going to try the Librivox version.
DiscerningCatholic Posted March 24, 2014 Author Posted March 24, 2014 I read City of God in 9th grade for school. :blink:
marigold Posted March 24, 2014 Posted March 24, 2014 I read City of God in 9th grade for school. :blink: Wow...
DiscerningCatholic Posted March 24, 2014 Author Posted March 24, 2014 Yes, that and Plutarch's Lives and Plato's Republic, Symposium, Gorgias, Ion and Meno, and the Iliad and the Odyssey...I'm now in the fourth year of this course. I think the first year was the worst. I will never be able to be referred to as an "uncultured swine." In other news, I was just accepted to Benedictine College.
marigold Posted March 24, 2014 Posted March 24, 2014 Yes, that and Plutarch's Lives and Plato's Republic, Symposium, Gorgias, Ion and Meno, and the Iliad and the Odyssey...I'm now in the fourth year of this course. I think the first year was the worst. I will never be able to be referred to as an "uncultured swine." In other news, I was just accepted to Benedictine College. I learned all I need to know about Plutarch's Lives from Seven Brides for Seven Brothers!
DiscerningCatholic Posted March 24, 2014 Author Posted March 24, 2014 Until you have to write an 1800 word essay about it. At 13. xD
AveMariaPurissima Posted March 24, 2014 Posted March 24, 2014 In other news, I was just accepted to Benedictine College. Congrats! :) I have a couple friends who are going there in the fall. :)
Eowyn Posted March 25, 2014 Posted March 25, 2014 I read City of God in 9th grade for school. :blink: Ok, you really are meant to be a Dominican. Really.
Eowyn Posted March 25, 2014 Posted March 25, 2014 I learned all I need to know about Plutarch's Lives from Seven Brides for Seven Brothers! Until you have to write an 1800 word essay about it. At 13. xD You wrote an 1800 word essay on Seven Brides for Seven Brothers? :hehe2: :hehe2: :hehe2:
DiscerningCatholic Posted March 25, 2014 Author Posted March 25, 2014 <_< No, you ninny... :P Plutarch's Lives.
DiscerningCatholic Posted March 25, 2014 Author Posted March 25, 2014 Ok, you really are meant to be a Dominican. Really. Read his "Confessions" in 9th grade, too. Read the Summa (not all of it, of course) in 10th grade.
SilentJoy Posted March 25, 2014 Posted March 25, 2014 Read his "Confessions" in 9th grade, too. Read the Summa (not all of it, of course) in 10th grade. I think I need to retire to a board with a lower IQ... :P
TheresaThoma Posted March 25, 2014 Posted March 25, 2014 I think I need to retire to a board with a lower IQ... :P Or you just weren't that nerdy...
DiscerningCatholic Posted March 25, 2014 Author Posted March 25, 2014 Oh ho, I didn't read most of that stuff by choice and I probably wouldn't have read any of it by myself had I not been in that course. LOL I wasn't nerdy.
SilentJoy Posted March 25, 2014 Posted March 25, 2014 I would NEVER have read "The Old Curiosity Shop" if I hadn't been forced to. No curiosity, just old. (That was my version of the Summa, I guess.)
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