Favorite Spiritual Books

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I am currently reading The Way of a Pilgrim its a great book I have a couple other books lined up.
 
I don’t have any one favorite, because as my life unfolds, I need different messages at different times.
For this Lent, I ordered Seven Story Mountain and No Man Is An Island by Thomas Merton, and some book by Dorothy Day, but I forgot the name of it :crazy_face:
 
The Imitation of Christ has always been a favorite of mine. I’ve recently started reading the Sermons of St. Alphonsus Liguori for all the Sundays in the year and I really like it.
 
one question I know it was written in 100s of years ago is it readable or is it in hard to understand old english
 
I’m currently reading “Arise From Darkness” by Father Benedict Groeschel. I’ve got “Reasons To Believe” by Scott Hahn on audiobook but haven’t started listening yet. Would also like to read “The Imitation of Christ” and have my grandmother’s copy of it, but so far haven’t gotten past the first few pages. (I have the attention span of a gnat, alas.)

My favorite is “The Story of A Soul” by St. Therese of Lisieux 😃
 
Most of the English translations I’ve seen are easy to read everyday English.
 
I have a lot of them. Probably my favorite recent ones would be The Return of the Prodigal Son by Henri Nouwen and The Diary of Saint Faustina. Both are incredibly relatable to me and don’t include too much of the “fluffy, feel good” stuff I haven’t found in my own life.
 
I read The Story of a Soul recently and it was so good! The Imitation is on my to-read now, as St. Therese referred to it in one of my favorite sections of her book.
 
I will reiterate that “Imitation of Christ” is wonderful.

I would also recommend St. Francis de Sales “Introduction to the Devout Life” as being quite wonderful.
 
You can’t go wrong with Story of a Soul. I need to read that again, it’s been a few years.
 
You’re a Mertonite? Do you think more people including many Catholics would become Mertonites if they gave him a chance? Did Thomas Merton open the doors to learning and understanding contemplation for many and from what I understand (this is from someone who didn’t read the documents but is hypothesizing nonetheless) helped support Vatican II’s emphasis on contemplation?
 
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You’re a Mertonite? Do you think more people including many Catholics would become Mertonites if they gave him a chance
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I read Seeds of Contemplation last year and I liked it, so I want to delve more.
From what I understand, his books were very popular, even with non Catholics, back when they were published.
I found SOC very very dense—it’s a fairly short book, but I could only read a couple pages at a time before my brain got tired, then I’d have to put the book down and mull over what I read, so it took a while to get through…🙂
 
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