Any suggestions for my next spiritual reading?

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Confessions by Augustine?
Not strictly mystical I know but powerful, nevertheless.
 
Maximillian Kolbe. Powerful story of a priest in a Nazi Concentration Camp who sacrifices his life for someone else.
 
Fr john harden. Has written mystics. Visions and visionaries.
He couldnt find but 2 .
 
Prophecies and Revelations of St. Bridget is really good too. I learned a lot from that book from the perspective of Jesus and Our Lady.
 
Looks like you’ve only read Western saints and totally neglected the East.

Try reading some of the desert Fathers or the Way of the Pilgrim or the Philokalia.
 
Catherine of Siena is one of the greatest mystics and also a Doctor of the Church.

Therese is not really a mystic. Her holiness was more simple, yet her intimacy was very close, at the same time.

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You say “approaches”. I would hope by that you don’t mean to say, ways of coming to mysticism because it always something bestowed on the soul and never attained. It is purely a grace from God that very few are given.
 
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As Misstherese said, Saint Gemma is wonderful. Also, we cannot forget St. Margaret Mary to whom Jesus revealed the Sacred Heart Devotion beginning in 1673.
 
If I may ask you a question, Br Ben; which of these readings left the most impact with you?
And, if you please, why?

Thanks you
 
I’m quite fond of the Holy Bible. Of course, I always was a sucker for the classics.
 
Thanks for that recommendation !

I checked and my local library has a copy of it So I placed a request for it. I have one in line ahead of me waiting so it may be a month or so before I get to read it.

Can’t wait 🙂
 
I would have to say that St. Therese of Lisieux impacted me the most. I read her Story of a Soul when I was a Sophomore in High School and it was my first real introduction to mysticism. Her Little Way has truly shaped my life and was one of the points calling me to enter my own Order, as we take what we call the Vow of Humility, that is, not to seek ecclesiastical dignities outside and within the Order. Reading the Spiritual Journals of St. Ignatius of Loyola made rather a large impact upon me also, as I had been detailing my own spiritual experiences in a journal for years and saw some rather shocking similarities between his and mine. Bernard of Clairvaux has really helped shaped my pastoral approach through his Commentary on the Song of Songs. His view on the seeming dichotomy and true unity of Justice and Mercy in the journey of the penitent has helped put my own interactions and ministry with the faithful into perspective.
 
“Story of a Soul” is not actually mystical literature or within the purview of mystical theology.
 
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While not wholly mystical, it does contain records of her visions and dreams across the four manuscripts in addition to a spirituality which is based more in a mystical relationship rather than an ascetic one. If you view it as a spiritual writing rather than simply as an autobiography, then it does lend itself to be classified as mystical literature.

But, this is just my opinion. Everyone is entitled to their own.
 
I think you mean - Charismatic Priest TESTIMONIES by Fr. Marcellino Iasenza Niro
 
I haven’t read that one, yet, but The Sign of Jonas by Merton is really good.
 
Time for God by Fr Jacques Phillipe. Gets into mental/contemplative prayer. ✌️
 
Jacque Phillipe’s little books are like gems–very good spiritual advice! Highly recommended.
I also want to recommend Fr. Walter Ciszek’s books: With God in Russia, and He Leadeth Me. The first recounts his 23 years in Communist Russia, about 20 of which he spent in solitary confinement and hard labor in Siberia. It is an autobiography. The second, written some years after his release, is a spiritual reflection on what happened to him in these years. Read the first before the second, for context, but the second is very, very powerful in terms of how to know and do God’s will. I think this was a saintly man.
 
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