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WELCOME!! And thank you for taking time to find the web site of the Denver Chesterton Society!
We cordially extend our warmest invitation to you to join us for what have proven to be rolicking, fun and exciting discussions about the literary works of the great Catholic English polymath Gilbert Keith Chesterton on the second Monday of every month at 7:15 P. M.
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This and That - next meeting Monday, January 9, 2012 @ 7:15 P.M., in the Chesterton Room
Dear Chesterton fans,
We will take a break to hold our annual Christmas party at our January 9, 2012 meeting. Perhaps we will also watch a Chesterton movie, too!
At our February 13, 2012 meeting we resume our discussion of GKC’s 1929 book The Poet and the Lunatics. We hope to cover the last four chapters, so please read ahead and be prepared for our usual fun and boisterous banter.
Attached is a flyer produced by none other than Denver Chestertonian Rita Sullivan (in both Microsoft Word and Adobe Acrobat formats) for the February 13, 2012 Denver Chesterton Society meeting. If you could print it out and leave copies of it in your parishes (with approval from on high, of course), I would be humbly grateful.
 Still available — readings of G. K. Chesteron’s selected poems and essays on Advent and Christmas themes. The anthology was painstakingly prepared and edited by our Corresponding Secretary, Sue Scofield, back in 2006. It is available in both
Microsoft Word and Adobe Acrobat
formats.
PLEASE CONTINUE TO PRAY FOR PETER. I talked to Peter Burnell yesterday. He has had bad news. The chemo isn’t working, and they are hoping to enter him into a trial of a new medication. Meanwhile, he wants desperately to finish his book - he is reworking some of it and adding a new chapter. He hopes to get it published before his disease takes its ultimate course. As I think you all may realize, when you give your heart and mind to a project you feel God has called you to, you deeply desire to complete it. Soooooo - pray for healing and that God grant Peter all the Godly desires of his heart - especially the completion and publishing of his book on Augustine and the Incarnation, and the ultimate gift of eternity with God.
God bless us all, each and every one as Tiny Tim would say.
Faithfully in Christ,
Sue Scofield
Corresponding Secretary, Denver Chesterton Society
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Current Discussion Topic
 At our February 13, 2012 meeting we resume our discussion of GKC’s 1929 book The Poet and the Lunatics. We hope to cover the last four chapters, so please read ahead and be prepared for our usual playful boisterous banter.
FREE The text is available, in several different formats, from the web site of Martin Ward at De Montfort University of Leicester, England.
ALMOST FREE to members of The American Chesterton Society, and well worth the price of membership.
While not nearly as well known as The Father Brown Mysteries or The Man Who Was Thursday, the quirky adventures of Gabriel Gale — poet, artist and lunatic-keeper — provide excellent entertainment for an evening spent curled up with a good book. This collection of short adventures explores some basic ideas about human nature, specifically, the ideas of poetry, insanity and sin. Some events in the stories are worthy of a laugh out loud, but each also has a darker side that causes the attentive reader to shudder, as Chesterton clearly outlines the differences between these.
In keeping with many of his works, Chesterton examines the ideas of sanity, madness, and modern thought — often coming to conclusions that most moderns do not like. The perception that Chesterton gives, though more than eighty years ago, is remarkably fresh and relevant. For the enemies of good in Chesterton’s time have not really changed, aside from some slight vagrancies in vocabulary. Be forewarned: atheistic thought is taken to the hammer (as it well should be! ha!), and all its forebearance of “modernity” is shown to be the true madness of life, rather than the seeming madness of Gabriel, who is sane (as we see, in more ways than one).
This is a fine, quirky sort of book, relatively short, but filled with excellent insights expressed in GKC’s inimitable and incisive manner. And it’s an enjoyable read at that — a real shame that it has been neglected (along with much of Chesterton’s work).
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