Tonight the Rochester Chesterton Society will meet to begin its 2025/26 season. The Society meets from September to May on the second Thursday of the month - except in January, taking a break due to the frequently snowy weather.
At the meetings, we read a book by Chesterton. The last two years it has been Heretics and The Ball and the Cross. Tonight we start The Man Who Was Thursday.
We read the books aloud, pausing to discuss. It's wonderful getting other people's insights and discovering things about the books that I did not know.
I have a fondness for Thursday. I read it a number of years ago, and I'm looking forward to rereading it. Moreover, when I began contributing to the blog I was assigned Thursday, so I was literally "The Man Who Is Thursday."
Our Society used to sponsor an annual Chesterton Conference. Alas, the donation that was used ot pay for the conferences finally ran out. In addition, the order with which we used to work is no longer active in our diocese, and the college where they used to be assigned was no longer an easily available venue.
I wonder how many local Chesterton Societies there are. I wonder if they are as active as we are. I wonder if they follow the same format we do.
To quote the great one: “The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder.”
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