Which Book Increased Your Faith

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Besides the Bible, which book/s, that you have read have really made an impact on you and your faith?

For me its St Faustina Diary and books on St Padre Pio.
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Curiously, besides the Bible, a book has never increased my faith. What has is prayer and just day to day living…
 
I have a few books lined up waiting to be read now because of this thread! 👍
 
“Fatima for Today”, by Fr. Andrew Apostoli, I’d highly recommend it to anyone.

It’s a great, faithful explanation of the Fatima apparitions, and has really increased my devotion to Mary.
 
Currently reading “Padre Pio, The True Story” By C.Bernard Ruffin

What an awesome book
 
I read The Cloud of Unknowing, The Practice of the Presence of God, Dark Night of the Soul, The Interior Castle, A Spiritual Canticle, Ascent of Mt. Carmel, The Spiritual Combat, Divine Intimacy. There are plenty more but these helped me greatly.
 
Sorry for not saying which one. all have helped me but if I have to choose one it would be Interior Castle.
 
I struggle with many books which is why I have so many on the go at the same time, however, the first book I read that I couldn’t put down and actually understood was:

Louder Than Words: The Art of Living As A Catholic by Matthew Leonard.

I even read the Catechism of the Catholic Church because he quoted it in his book.
 
Imitation of Christ
Matthew Kelley’s “Rediscovering Catholicism”
The Better Part
I know they’ve been suggested but are solid 🙂

Don’t bother reading anything by Fr Richard Rohr – major dissenting Catholic with new age teachings 😦
 
“The Right Stuff” by Tom Wolfe. Why would I list this you might say, because it is the true story of free highly individualistic men who join together for a greater purpose of human advancement that is suicidally dangerous and on the surface seems like folly but below the surface is a poetic commentary on the Truth that we are not just knuckle dragging monkeys who sprang out of random probability. These human beings with a soul strapped themselves on top of a nuclear missile, hung themselves out on the ragged edge of the envelope and laughed at death. No work of philosophical gobbledygook is better than that.

“Gooooooo…!”
 
Without a doubt, ABANDONMENT TO DIVINE PROVIDENCE by Fr Jean-Pierre de Caussade.

When I was at my spiritually lowest point, this book, inspired by the Spirit, taught me what a blessed place I was actually in and how God was using my desolation to lead me deeper into His heart. This book was literally my spiritual director when I had none.
 
“Catholicism: A Journey to the heart of the faith” - Fr. Robert Barron. Clear, unwavering, and he just makes sense. There is no sense of being preached to, just reasoned logical and a reasoned style…helped me immensely as a springboard to other amazing books and resources.
 
LETTERS Saint Ignatius
CONFESSIONS Saint Augustine
CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
 
My favorite book that I keep reading over and over again, and I think I have highlighted more than half of it, is THE WAY OF DIVINE LOVE by Sister Josefa Menendez.
 
TrinitarianMom said:
Imitation of Christ
Matthew Kelley’s “Rediscovering Catholicism”
The Better Part
I know they’ve been suggested but are solid 🙂

Don’t bother reading anything by Fr Richard Rohr – major dissenting Catholic with new age teachings 😦
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Be careful…to my knowledge Fr. Rohr is a Franciscan priest in good standing with the church. His faithful followers surely outnumber the minority that do not ascend to his mystical approach to spirituality.
 
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