My Review of "Catholic Catalogue"

Melisa Musick and Anna Keating, who maintain the website upon which The Catholic Catalogue:  A Field Guide to the Daily Acts that Make Up a Catholic Life (http://thecatholiccatalogue.com/), have given us a hands-on, useful guide to all the ways in which being Catholic involves passing along the embodied Christian faith of our ancestors.  This is a book that calls a whole generation of baptized Catholics to lay down their arms in the culture wars, and pick up the ways of being Catholic that pass along that faith in ancient patterns of keeping time and following those who have gone before us.

Christians have been setting tables and welcoming strangers and enemies at those tables for thousands of years.  The Catholic Catalogue is a clarion call -- a clear clarion call -- for us to continue caring for the sick, burying the dead, receiving Eucharist, marking the hours of dawn and dusk, keeping prayerful watch through the night, honoring and remembering martyrs, just as we have done for two thousand years.

But this is a book for more than Catholics.  It's a good introduction to the embodied faith of Christians of whatever stripe -- because ultimately this is a book about living in the world as the people of Jesus.

I received a free copy of this book as part of the Blogging for Books program in exchange for my honest review here.