Recommendations on good "How to Pray" books or sites

[Rae8]

I have so many questions - many of which have now been answered here on this forum (thank you) but still more will come I’m sure as I’m a new convert.

Are there some good books or sources for how to pray that covers special intentions, for loved ones who have died, novenas, etc. ?

Maybe someone has special favorites they would recommend?

Thank you,

 

[Boulder257]

Check out this book: amazon.com/The-How-Book-Catholic-Devotions/dp/0879734159/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1366212905&sr=8-1&keywords=how+to+book+of+devotions

It’s pretty good. I use it all the time!

 

[TimothyH]

There are many books full of devotions and novenas. I own the first two.

• [A Book of Marian Prayers (http://www.loyolapress.com/a-book-of-marian-prayers.htm)
• The Paraclete: A Manual of Instruction and Devotion
• The Catholic Book of Prayers
• Catholic Book of Novenas

If you are looking for a book on how to pray, rather than a book full of prayers, I would recommend the following two;

Introduction to the Devout Life by St. Francis de Sales.

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Prayer Primer by Fr. Thomas Dubay, S.M.

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-Tim-

 

[Boulder257]

Intro the Devout Life is an amazing book!

 

[TimothyH]

Intro the Devout Life is an amazing book!

Agreed. It is one of the top two or three books which had an impact on my spiritual life.

-Tim-

 

[Deo_Gratias42]

There’s a good book put out by Tan books called “The Guide to Mental Prayer”. It’s pretty good too.

 

[Bruised_Reed]

The Art of Praying by Fr. Romano Guardini

Learn:

How to overcome distractions
How to pray when your heart is empty
How to avoid monotony
The best posture for prayer … and more!

 

[quiet52]

Some suggestions:

Catholic Doors" website on prayer
catholicdoors.com/prayers/

EWTN: devotionals / prayers
ewtn.com/Devotionals/prayers/

Sacred Space daily meditative prayer
sacredspace.ie/

Roman Catholic Spiritual Direction (click on “prayer” tab)
rcspiritualdirection.com/

The Catechism of the Catholic Church on Prayer
scborromeo.org/ccc/p4s1.htm

 

[Rae8]

I am thankful to everyone for all these great links and suggestions.

Since Intro. to a Devout Life was praised often, I found it free and downloaded to my kindle.
Found it at: ccel.org/ccel/desales/devout_life That site has several free download versions.

I find the pdf files don’t work well on Kindle, so I copied the pdf file to a word doc and it allows me to change text size, etc. just like a kindle version. I am looking forwarding to starting that as well as checking out the links above.

Thank you everyone. :grouphug: