April 10, 2015 
Meeting of the WPA Chesterton Society
Changed to April 17, 2015

Attention WPA Chestertonians,

IMPORTANT: There has been a change to the previous meeting announcement. Due to a significant number of our group not being available for a meeting this week, we will NOT meet this Friday, April 10 as previously announced. Instead, we will meet next Friday, April 17, 2015. The doors will open at 7:00pm at the Community Center for our potluck of refreshments, with the meeting officially getting under way at 7:30pm. If you plan to attend the meeting, please email me so that I can get an estimated head count for the meeting. 

Our reading plan and the meeting time frame will remain the same, and you are still encouraged to bring contributions to our refreshments table. See the blog post that appears right before this one for all the details.

...and as always, feel free to email me at wpachesterton@gmail.com if you have any questions or comments.

April 10, 2015 

Meeting of the WPA Chesterton Society

Easter Greetings Fellow WPA Chestertonians and Friends,


"...They took the body down from the cross and one of the few rich men among the first Christians obtained permission to bury it in a rock tomb in his garden; the Romans setting a military guard lest there should be some riot and attempt to recover the body. There was once more a natural symbolism in these natural proceedings; it was well that the tomb should be sealed with all the secrecy of ancient eastern sepulture and guarded by the authority of the Caesars. For in that second cavern the whole of that great and glorious humanity which we call antiquity was gathered up and covered over; and in that place it was buried. It was the end of a very great thing called human history; the history that was merely human. The mythologies and the philosophies were buried there, the gods and the heroes and the sages. In the great Roman phrase, they had lived. But as they could only live, so they could only die; and they were dead.

On the third day the friends of Christ coming at daybreak to the place found the grave empty and the stone rolled away. In varying ways they realised the new wonder; but even they hardly realised that the world had died in the night. What they were looking at was the first day of a new creation, with a new heaven and a new earth; and in a semblance of the gardener God walked again in the garden, in the cool not of the evening but the dawn."

~ G.K.Chesterton, The Everlasting Man

This Friday in the Octave of Easter...

Please join us as we gather April 10th for our monthly Chesterton Society meeting. At our March meeting, we discussed the first two chapters of Chesterton's biography William Cobbett.  This month we will continue the discussion that we began in March, with  the goal of completing a discussion of chapters 3, 4 and 5.  This will allow us to complete the discussion of the remainder of the book at the May meeting.  

Here is a link to the text of the Cobbett book available to read on the internet. 

Also, I have 5 unclaimed copies of the book from our group buy. With the group discount offered to local Chesterton Societies, the cost per book is $10. If you asked to be included in the the William Cobbett group buy, please contact me, so we can arrange for you to pay for and receive your copy. If I don't hear from you, I will consider the book unclaimed and will make it available to any one who would like to buy it. If you did not order a copy, and would like to purchase one of the unclaimed copies I have, you can do so at the meeting, or before hand if you let me know. 

Looking ahead...
After completing our discussion of William Cobbett in May, we will discuss a Chesterton essay (TBA) for the June meeting, and a work of Chestertonian fiction for our July meeting.  

In the Autumn, we will be reading and discussing Chesterton's provocative book Heretics. 

As usual...

Our meetings are held in the Village of Middle Lancaster, at the Lancaster Township Community Center located on Kings Alley and Community Center Drive, in Butler County PA. Kings Ally is off of Rt. 19 approx. 4.5 miles north of Zelienople, and just north of the Zion Lutheran Church and just south of East Lancaster Road. (The Community Center is a former one room school house, adjacent to the ball fields at Bauder Park.) The doors open at 7:00pm for pot luck refreshments, with the discussion beginning at 7:30. The meeting wraps up sometime around 9:30pm.

Please consider bringing something for the refreshment table...
After our Lenten abstinence, the refreshment table will be resurrected at the April Easter meeting. Please consider bringing something to help the table surpass its former glory!

...and as always, feel free to email me at wpachesterton@gmail.com if you have any questions or comments.