Which Book Increased Your Faith

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The Holy Bible.

The Imitation of Christ.

From sex addict to Saint-Margaret of Cortona.

Hostage to the devil.
 
MHT32 said:
Despite him being a non-Catholic, I loved Lee Strobel’s “The Case for a Creator”. He makes some pretty good arguments for the existence of God and talks briefly about how he left atheism. Pretty interesting read.
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***The Story of a Soul, St. Therese of Lisieux
Ordered this book too now!! Thanks all
 
The words of our Lord, especially “Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven.”

His faith filled prayer for the kingdom of heaven to come to this earth…an earth and a people which are crying out for deliverance…not knowing when God’s kingdom will come to this earth, yet hoping and believing for it.

As Jesus said, ‘But of that day and hour knoweth no one, not even the angels of heaven, neither the Son, but the Father only.’ This faith of Jesus which he has in his Father for the kingdom of God that will some day come to this earth fills me with his faith.

“Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen”
(Heb.11:1).

Jesus, Mary and Joseph pray for us.
 
“Lift Up Your Heart” By Ven. Fulton J. Sheen ( and to be honest, everything this man has published.)

“True Devotion” by Saint Louis de Montfort.

And a litany of other works, too many to list.
 
For me, it was a few books in differents stages of my journey… I’m a revert and after I found my way back, I’ve read…
  1. Rediscovering Catholicism by Matthew Kelly (read 3x)
  2. Spiritual Exercises by St Ignatius of Loyola (read 2x)
  3. Spirit of the Liturgy by Joseph Ratzinger (BXVI) (read 3x)
  4. Currently reading True Devotion to Mary by St Louis de Montfort
All of these have pushed me a little further into my journey to where I’m at now
 
McCall1981 said:
The Story of a Soul, St. Therese of Lisieux
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Ditto!

However, I am not sure it changed/increased my faith (belief in God) but it really helped with my “walk” with the Lord. I read it over Christmas so it really helped with my Lent.

Joyful suffering!?! Brilliant!
 
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Thomas Merton’s autobiography, “The Seven Storey Mountain.”
 

Another Merton favorite of mine is “The Sign Of Jonas”, the diary that he kept during his early years at Gethsemani monastery in Kentucky, including the build-up to his ordination. Here are a few snippets from 1949 …​

May 23

In three days, if I am alive and if the archbishop does not fall down and break his leg, I should be a priest. I keep thinking: “I shall say Mass – I shall say Mass.”

May 29

Friday I said the Mass that I had promised Our Lady of Cobre. I had been told that one got so mixed up in the rubrics that the first Mass was so hard. I did not find that to be true at all. On the contrary, I felt as if I had been saying Mass all my life.

June 4

Hot day, stomach empty, beautiful cumulus clouds sail over the woods, and everything is quiet. The Mass is the most wonderful thing that has ever entered my life. When I am at the altar I feel that I am at last the person that God has truly intended me to be.

June 10

The big thing in my day used to be Communion. Now it’s the sacrifice of which Communion is only a part. The whole sacrifice is so tremendous that no amount of exuberance will ever get you anywhere in expressing it. To bend down, unnoticed, and kiss the altar at the Supplices te rogamus [We most humbly beseech] is a moment that lifts me out of myself and doubles my peace. Saying the Pater Noster [Our Father] is like swimming in the heart of the sun.

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And so much more.

~ Frank
 
frankbeenaround said:
June 4

Hot day, stomach empty, beautiful cumulus clouds sail over the woods, and everything is quiet. The Mass is the most wonderful thing that has ever entered my life. When I am at the altar I feel that I am at last the person that God has truly intended me to be.
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well, that’s what I would like to read next, then…
 
I’m reading (and re-reading) “The Plot Against the Church” by Maurice Pinay. Well-written and thought-provoking book.
 
Saint Bernadette Soubirous, Abbe Francois Trochu
Treatise On True Devotion To The Blessed Virgin, St. Louis de Montfort
The Story of a Soul, St. Therese of Lisieux

Peace, Mark
 
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