Greetings Fellow WPA Chestertonians,
This Friday evening:
We will begin G. K. Chesterton's early philosophical and theological work Heretics at our meeting this week. We will be working our way through the book over the next few months, taking a break from it in December, and then finishing up in the early months of 2016.
For the meeting on Friday, September 11, please read chapters I -IV. ("Introductory Remarks..." through "Mr. Bernard Shaw ")
I will not be conducting a group buy for Heretics. You may want to work out where you will find a copy and start reading before the meeting this Friday. Heretics is available to view on Martin Ward's "Chesterton's Works on the Web" webpage, in your choice of English, Croatian, or Macedonian translations! It is also available in downloadable formats on the Project Gutenberg website. If you prefer to listen to an audio file, this LibriVox link might be helpful. The book is also available in a Dover paper back hardcopy on the ACS website (ACS members save 20%) and it is available widely on the internet.
At the end of September:
As you can see, the Rochester Chesterton Society will be hosting their annual day conference on Saturday, September 26. (Yes, it is the same weekend that Pope Francis will be in Philly.) This is an excellent, reasonably priced one-day conference that many from our group have enjoyed in past years. There is no pre-registration. Just show up on Saturday morning, September 26, and pay your $10. An additional ticket for lunch on site is usually around $5 more, or you can bring a lunch, or go out on your own. There is usually a vigil mass celebrated on Saturday after the conference. There are some from our group who are planning to attend this "Rochesterton" event again this year. Group member-at-large, Walt Sarafin writes,
"I am planning to drive to the [Rochester] conference and have room for a passenger. If you know anyone who needs a ride text me at 724-231-8919 (my computer is down so e-mail is not working).
Walt Sarafin"
If you are interested to attend but have any questions about places to stay or recommended travel arrangements, please feel free to contact me.
As usual:
Our meeting will be 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 a right turn off of Rt. 19N, approx. 4.5 miles north of Zelienople, just past the Zion Lutheran Church. (The Community Center is a former one room school house, adjacent to the ball fields at Bauder Park.) If our numbers are few and the weather is warm, we may opt to move the meeting 90 seconds up the road to my backyard deck or my air-conditioned dining room table... If you'd like, drop me an email to let me know if you will join us or not, so that I can make sure to advise everyone if there are any changes. The meeting will start at 7:00pm for pot luck refreshments, with the discussion beginning at 7:30. The meeting will wrap up around 9:30pm.
Please consider bringing something for the refreshment table. I am looking forward to seeing all of you...
Any questions or comments, please feel free to email me at wpachesterton@gmail.com
