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I try to spend a little time each day doing some spiritual reading. Sometimes it is a reading from Holy Scripture, sometimes a book by or about a saint, other times an encyclical or something from the Catechism. I really enjoy doing it during a Holy Hour, for maybe 15-20 minutes after the Rosary and then spending some time before the Blessed Sacrament meditating on the reading.
Currently, I am reading, The Passion of Therese of Lisieux by Guy Gaucher. A very powerful telling of the last months of such a holy woman and Doctor of the Church.
A few saints quotes on Spiritual Reading:
*St. Augustine of Hippo, considered one of the greatest Fathers of the Church, converted to the Catholic Church upon hearing a boy tell him" “Take, read; take, read.” He recounted that “I took (the epistles of Paul the Apostle), I opened, I read in silence; it was as though the darkness of all my doubting was driven away by the light of peace which had entered my soul.”
St. Ignatius of Loyola, founder of what is considered as the largest religious order in Catholicism, decided to live a saintly life, after reading a volume of the lives of the saints which he accidentally took up while he was in a hospital bed.
St. Edith Stein, Patron of Europe, converted to Catholicism after reading the autobiography of St. Teresa of Avila on a holiday in Göttingen in 1921, at the age of 29. One evening Edith picked up an autobiography of St. Teresa of Avila and read this book all night. “When I had finished the book, I said to myself: This is the truth.” She went out the next day to buy a missal and a copy of the Catholic catechism.
Thomas Merton, a known spiritual writer, read a book by Étienne Gilson, on “The Elements of Christian Philosophy,” and decided to study Catholicism. He later converted and became a Trappist monk.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiritual_reading
Is Spiritual Reading part of your prayer life? If so, what are you reading now?
Currently, I am reading, The Passion of Therese of Lisieux by Guy Gaucher. A very powerful telling of the last months of such a holy woman and Doctor of the Church.
A few saints quotes on Spiritual Reading:
*St. Augustine of Hippo, considered one of the greatest Fathers of the Church, converted to the Catholic Church upon hearing a boy tell him" “Take, read; take, read.” He recounted that “I took (the epistles of Paul the Apostle), I opened, I read in silence; it was as though the darkness of all my doubting was driven away by the light of peace which had entered my soul.”
St. Ignatius of Loyola, founder of what is considered as the largest religious order in Catholicism, decided to live a saintly life, after reading a volume of the lives of the saints which he accidentally took up while he was in a hospital bed.
St. Edith Stein, Patron of Europe, converted to Catholicism after reading the autobiography of St. Teresa of Avila on a holiday in Göttingen in 1921, at the age of 29. One evening Edith picked up an autobiography of St. Teresa of Avila and read this book all night. “When I had finished the book, I said to myself: This is the truth.” She went out the next day to buy a missal and a copy of the Catholic catechism.
Thomas Merton, a known spiritual writer, read a book by Étienne Gilson, on “The Elements of Christian Philosophy,” and decided to study Catholicism. He later converted and became a Trappist monk.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiritual_reading
Is Spiritual Reading part of your prayer life? If so, what are you reading now?
