Book recommendation for Lent

[Epistemes]

Hello,

I’m starting to compile a list of possible books that I might like to read during Lent this year in order to grow holistically. The criteria are that the book cannot be a frequent recommended standard (e.g., Augustine’s Confessions, de Kempis’s Imitation, etc.), and it must be less than 250 pages (as I wish to read several books).

Some of the books I’m considering already include:

Earth Gospel: A Guide to Prayer for God’s Creation - Sam Hamilton-Poore
The Stream & the Sapphire: Selected Poems on Religious Themes - Denise Levertov
Rufus Jones: Essential Writings
True Love: A Practice for Awakening the Heart - Thich Nhat Hanh
He Leadeth Me - Walter J. Ciszek
John Donne’s Sermons on the Psalms and Gospels: With a Selection of Prayers and Meditations - John Donne

These are fine, but I would like to read a book this Lent about the sufferings being experienced in less developed countries. If anyone knows of such a book, I would thank you for recommending it.

Thanks.

 

[Belle10]

Hello old friend!

Well, it’s longer than 250 pages, but I highly, highly, highly recommend Divine Mercy in My Soul - The Diary of Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska:
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It’s very long, but don’t let it seem daunting. It’s so wonderful and I guarantee it will bring you closer to Our Lord! It’s the type of book you can read all at once OR little by little, whatever works for you.

 

[JimR-OCDS]

Hello,

I’m starting to compile a list of possible books that I might like to read during Lent this year in order to grow holistically. The criteria are that the book cannot be a frequent recommended standard (e.g., Augustine’s Confessions, de Kempis’s Imitation, etc.), and it must be less than 250 pages (as I wish to read several books).

Some of the books I’m considering already include:

Earth Gospel: A Guide to Prayer for God’s Creation - Sam Hamilton-Poore
The Stream & the Sapphire: Selected Poems on Religious Themes - Denise Levertov
Rufus Jones: Essential Writings
True Love: A Practice for Awakening the Heart - Thich Nhat Hanh
He Leadeth Me - Walter J. Ciszek
John Donne’s Sermons on the Psalms and Gospels: With a Selection of Prayers and Meditations - John Donne

These are fine, but I would like to read a book this Lent about the sufferings being experienced in less developed countries. If anyone knows of such a book, I would thank you for recommending it.

Thanks.

Well, its just over 250 pages at 288, but well worth it;

“No Man Is An Island,” by Thomas Merton

Also another good one, “The Could of Unknowing.”

I like your list so far, BTW.

Jim

 

[puzzleannie]

Hello,

I’m starting to compile a list of possible books that I might like to read during Lent this year in order to grow holistically. The criteria are that the book cannot be a frequent recommended standard (e.g., Augustine’s Confessions, de Kempis’s Imitation, etc.), and it must be less than 250 pages (as I wish to read several books).

Some of the books I’m considering already include:

Earth Gospel: A Guide to Prayer for God’s Creation - Sam Hamilton-Poore
The Stream & the Sapphire: Selected Poems on Religious Themes - Denise Levertov
Rufus Jones: Essential Writings
True Love: A Practice for Awakening the Heart - Thich Nhat Hanh
He Leadeth Me - Walter J. Ciszek
John Donne’s Sermons on the Psalms and Gospels: With a Selection of Prayers and Meditations - John Donne

These are fine, but I would like to read a book this Lent about the sufferings being experienced in less developed countries. If anyone knows of such a book, I would thank you for recommending it.

Thanks.

some of these I don’t know about, the only one I know that is Catholic is Father Walter Ciszeks recollection if his life in a Stalinist prison camp.
I cannot in good conscience recommend spiritual writing by non-Catholics as a primary source of meditation for Catholics.
the relations of any missionaries to any of the countries that interest you could be profitable and provide a Christ-centered account of the struggles of those in undeveloped countries. search the publications or websites of those various missionary orders for books or magazines that sound like what you want

my only other bit of advice, based on the Rule of St. Benedict, is to ask your spiritual director to recommend a book, or when you do find a good book, stick with only one for Lent until you have finished it, rather than reading multiple books at one time. And read that one book slowly and meditatively.