Hmm…I love Amazing Grace, most Christmas music like Silent Night, and I wish they did “On Eagle’s Wings” more often, you know, “bear you upon the break of dawn, and hold you in the palm of His hands…” I also GREATLY appreciate the church (in the U.S.) that sings patriotic/religious songs on U.S. holidays, esp. the 4th of July. America the Beautiful, America (My Country Tis of Thee), and songs like that. I love most of those kinds. There are other songs I like, but I can’t remember the titles right now… I also sing songs from Sound of Music, and stuff like that. Basically, I sing songs that I have memorized, which isn’t all that much because I’m hard of hearing.
As for books, I’m not quite that read in religious books yet, though I’ve read many other books (I have little over 700 books of my own right now). But I love HP, LOTR, Artemis Fowl, Ender’s Shadows series, Gordon Korman, War of the Worlds, Mark Twain’s books like A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, Jules Verne, Ray Bradbury, pretty much anything sci fi, fantasy, or non-fiction historical about WWII. I can go on
If you want me to, I will.
Plenty of Catholics read books many others read. I do steer clear of most romances, because I really don’t want to read what I don’t watch, like explicit scenes, if you know what I mean? I don’t think that’s really all that conducive to my everyday struggle against sin. (I’ll debate the merits of HP with anybody who wants to) I don’t really read those “dime” novels, you know the kinds that every book has a really similar plot? Waste of my time.
I hope that answers your question?
