{"id":3803,"date":"2008-10-12T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-12T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3803"},"modified":"2025-09-30T00:45:41","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T00:45:41","slug":"latest-read-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3803","title":{"rendered":"Latest Read: the Fraternal Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a book I&#39;m sure I never would have heard of, if I didn&#39;t know the author. Fr. David Couterier is a Capuchin priest who served as a Sunday associate in my parish for several years, before moving to Baltimore where he teaches at St. Mary&#39;s Seminary. He was outstanding in his efforts in our community &#8211; a real brother of St. Francis.<\/p>\n<p>The is not an easy read; in fact it&#39;s&#0160;quite dense, and not aimed at a general audience.&#0160;But I did find it worthwhile.&#0160;&#0160;A very worthwhile book by the same author that is aimed at a general audience&#0160;is <strong>The&#0160;Four Conversions, A Spirituality of Transformation<\/strong>,&#0160;&#0160;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Four-Conversions-Spirituality-Transformation\/dp\/1929569491\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1223821606&amp;sr=1-1\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Amazon.com: The Four Conversions: A Spirituality of Transformation: David B. Couturier: Books<\/span><\/a>&#0160;.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a book I&#39;m sure I never would have heard of, if I didn&#39;t know the author. Fr. David Couterier is a Capuchin priest who served as a Sunday associate in my parish for several years, before moving to Baltimore where he teaches at St. Mary&#39;s Seminary. He was outstanding in his efforts in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3803"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14009,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3803\/revisions\/14009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}