We had a great Holy Savior book club this week, discussing the Thornton Wilder novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey, written over 100 years ago and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Literature. For March, we are reading the acclaimed novel Black Robe, written by novelist Brian Moore, based on the life of St Jean de Brebeuf, one of the North American Martyrs and a French Jesuit priest who ministered to the Huron people of North America in the 17th century. Acclaimed Catholic English novelist Graham Greene recommended that Moore write this novel, using the journals of Jean de Brebeuf and other Jesuit missionaries as source material. It is a great novel of the Catholic missionaries and their faith. I have read this novel several times and wrote a major paper on it in school. I am looking forward to reading it with this group. I am very much enjoying our Holy Savior book club and our discussions. I have not been in a book club since my days at St Richard as a priest.
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