Happy St. Scholastica day!

Today is the feast of St. Scholastica, and I think we should celebrate it, for three reasons:

1. She's got the coolest name ever. I mean, you know she was smart if that's what her mom and dad named her.
   
2. We don't know much about her, aside from her famous twin brother. She needs a little more love.
   
3. Because of this story:
   

Her brother was accustomed to visit her every year, for "she could not be sated or wearied with the words of grace which flowed from his lips." On his last visit, after a day passed in spiritual converse, the Saint, knowing that her end was near, said, "My brother, leave me not, I pray you, this night, but discourse with me till dawn on the bliss of those who see God in heaven." St. Benedict would not break his rule at the bidding of natural affection; and then the Saint bowed her head on her hands and prayed; and there arose a storm so violent that St. Benedict could not return to his monastery, and they passed the night in heavenly conversation.


 
I just think it's kind of cool. And I wonder how it played out…

St. Brother, I am at the brink of death. Will you keep me company? 

Sorry. Gonna be late for Vespers. 

More website updates: Memes!

Even more updates to the character webpages! Now each of the students has a little quote about them from the books. More intriguing, though, is this: each character has a meme! Check them out here. These memes were originally written by our very own Ryan Corrigan, the co-author of Book 2, and posted on this very blog last year - so this isn't exactly a new update, but it makes it much easier to find them.

For more of Ryan's...unique...brand of humor, check out here...or here...or especially here.

New Character Pics! Check them out!

Hey guys, since we're done book 3 we have time to give the website a much-overdue makeover! Lots of new stuff will be added.. but for now, check out the character pages! There's several new pics of each of the students at JP2High, along with some...interesting...commentary by the students themselves! My personal favorite is James.


You can see all the rest here.
Stay tuned for more!

So the Book is done...

...so what now? Well, lots. First of all, this book is awesome. That's what everyone who has read it tells me. However, there's still a lot of post-production work to be done. Editing...cutting...thinking of a cool title (NOT "Protestant for the Summer") and promotion and such. So it looks like y'all have to wait just a little bit longer for the final product. All of this delay is just standard for publishing, by the way. But rest assured that all of us on the team are working as quick as we can to get the book out to you.

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BOOK 3 IS DONE!

Hey guys and gals. Guess what? Book 3 is done!

Unfortunately, neither a title nor a publishing date is available, but rest assured that both should appear shortly (RIGHT, Series Queen?)

The Book Club Notes are Here!

After what seems like forever (at least to those of us who worked so hard on it!) the Book Club Notes for Catholic Reluctantly are available at last!

And they are FREE.  Yes, if you want your very own discussion guide for Book One, all you have to do is click here and download it.  Make as many copies as you need to for your group, and have fun reading and discussing!

We'd wanted to create this guide for a long time, because we have been hearing from Catholic school teachers who want just such a resource so they can use the book in their classrooms.  Now it's here, at last!

So-- hey, tell your friends.  Tell your youth group leaders.  Tell your teachers. Wouldn't it be great it this was your assigned summer reading?  Now's your chance to lobby for it!

Another great review of TAU

From some fabulous people. Take a look!
http://joes-everything-blog.blogspot.com/2009/10/stalkers-mystery-and-catholic-school.html