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I’m looking to do some reading. What are everyone’s favorite religious books?
 
For adults: “Secrets of the Interior Life” by Luis Martinez

For preteens: “Olivia and the Little Way” by Nancy Belanger
 
Anything by St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori.

Anything by the saints… 😃

Fr. Paul O’Sullivan, O.P.'s little devotional booklets are also very encouraging.

St. Francis de Sale’s ‘Introduction to the Devout Life’ is very good. 🙂
 
*The Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary *by Anne Catherine Emmerich is a book that transformed my life. I am pretty sure my now deceased and sainted grandmother must have read that book and taught all of its contents to my mother who told me stories about the Blessed Virgin Mary all my life. The story of Anne Catherine Emmerich is wonderful as well and the story of how the book came about is very interesting.

*The Story of a Soul *by St. Therese of Lisieux is beautiful. My grandmother gave it to me when I was quite young and I later selected St. Therese as my confirmation saint.

I just purchased Consoling the Heart of Jesus: a Do-it-Yourself Retreat Inspired by the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius written by Fr. Michael E. Gaitley and published by Marian Press. I plan to read it this summer.

I have a several books by Scott Hahn all of which I love (especially Hail, Holy Queen) I have Raymond Arroyo’s book about Mother Angelica which I enjoyed. I have a book called The Spiritual Combat: For the 21st Century Christian by Dom Lorenzo Scupoli and it is wonderful too.

I could go on and on…I have many great spiritual books. I have found that each book seemed to be just what I needed to read at the time I found it.

Blessings,
Jennifer:)
 
Romano Guardini’s “The Lord”
Chesterton’s “Orthodoxy”
C.S Lewis’s “Mere Christianity”
And its really a letter not a book but:
Pope Benedict’s Encyclical letter “Deus Caritas Est”
 
St. Teresa of Avila’s Life converted me. I was a non-practicing Catholic before I read it and it completely changed my life.

Thomas Merton’s Seven Storey Mountain is another excellent piece of literature.

My favorite book as Art is Mariette in Ecstasy. Absolutely beautiful writing.

I could reccommend a zillion more, but these three are awesome.
 
Anything by Chesterton; and the Screwtape Letters is a book I first read as a teenager, and which has stayed with me.
The Hound of Heaven
The Imitation of Christ.
Anything written by Pope Benedict.
 
The Way by St. Josemaria Escriva
Ordinary Work, Extraordinary Grace by Scott Hahn
Jesus of Nazareth by Pope Benedict XVI
 
Anything by Scott Hahn
Anything by CS Lewis
St. Maria Faustina’s Diary (Divine Mercy)

If you want something deeper try
St. John of the Cross
Peter Kreeft

A really great book is Jesus and the Jewish Roots of the Eucharist by Brant Pitre

GK Chesterton wrote some great things

St. Theresa of Avila wrote a lot of great things

Anything by Thomas Merton

I have a whole library so if you want something specific just let me know 🙂
 
I’ll second St. Faustina’s Diary!!
Also look up these eye openers…
  • I can see far (television)
  • It ain’t gonna happen
  • How to change your husband
  • Poem of the Man God
my advice, keep it Catholic! 😃
 
FYI – surfin – I didn’t mean it to sound like I’m chastising you. But I have a friend who often talks about that book, so I looked it up online and discovered how troublesome it can be to our faith.
 
Happy Are You Poor, Fr. Thomas Dubay – the best book I’ve read on what Gospel poverty means.

Catholics, Brian Moore. Fascinating novella written back in the 70s that is prescient about the contemporary Church.

The Holy Bible, which is one of my favorite religious books. 😛
 
My Life with the Saints by Father James Martin, SJ. This is not just an introduction to the lives of some well-known and less well-known saints but an account of his growth in faith and his spiritual odyssey.

The Cloister Walk by Kathleen Norris. An excellent account of Benedictine spirituality by a non-Catholic Benedictine oblate.

Hell and Other Destinations by Piers Paul Read. Popular apologetics by England’s best known Catholic apologist.
 
Hi All
New to this.
My wife and a spiritual lady of a religion not Catholicism,had a great relationship.(my wife has since passed Sept 7,2010). This person gave my wife this book to read called “Heaven” by Randy Alcorn. I have started reading this book,which really trys to explain the here-after.
My question is if this is a book that a Catholic person should read and believe in.
So if you have any info on this book or its contents,please inform me.
Harold
 
Desire of the Everlasting Hills by Thomas Cahill. Explains the world before, during and after Christ, with emphasis on the New Testament. So interesting!
 
I`m trying to find out if this is an acceptable book for a Catholic to be reading,Christine.
The book is HEAVEN by Randy Alcorn.
 
Anything by Chesterton, especially Orthodoxy.
The Way of a Pilgrim.
No Man is an Island, by Thomas Merton
The Golden Legend, by Blessed Jacobus de Voragine
The saints - St. John of the Cross, St. Symeon the New Theologian, St. Ephrem of Syria, St. Gregory Palamas, and also the Church Fathers Prudentius and Lactantius
The Homilies of St. Macarius the Great
The Sayings of the Desert Fathers, translated by Sr. Benedicta Ward
The Spirit of the Liturgy, by Pope Benedict XVI
The Spirit of the Liturgy, by Romano Guardini
Anything by Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand or Alphonse de Lamartine

Avoid the Poem of the Man-God - it was condemned by the Holy Office as heretical.
 
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