Recommended Reading

Spiritual reading recommendations from Pat Stankus of the Diocese Of Austin:

• Alphonsus Liguori, St. Love is Prayer, Prayer is Love: Selected Writing of St. Alphonsus.
• A Kempis, Thomas. The Imitation of Christ.
• Anonymous. The Way of a Pilgrim and the Pilgrim Continues His Way.
• Augustine, St.
• City of God
• The Confessions of St. Augustine
• Bloom, Anthony
• Living Prayer
• Beginning to Pray
• Meditations: A Spiritual Journey Through the Parables
• God and Man
• Courage to Pray
• Carretto, Carlo
• Letters from the Desert
• The God Who Comes
• In Search of the Beyond
• De Caussade, Jean-Pierre. Abandonment to Divine Providence.
• Early Fathers from the Philokalia.
• Francis of Assisi, St. The Little Flowers of St. Francis.
• Gregory of Nyssa, St.
• The Lord's Prayer
• The Beatitudes
• Grou, Jean Nicholas. How to Pray.
• Houselander, Caryll. The Reed of God.
• Green, S.J., Thomas
• Opening to God
• When the Well Runs Dry
• Darkness in the Marketplace
• Weeds Among the Wheat
• Vacation With The Lord
• Ignatius Loyola, St. The Spiritual Exercise of St. Ignatius Loyola.
• John of the Cross, St. The Collected Works of St. John of the Cross.
• Julian of Norwich. The Revelations of Divine Love.
• Lawrence of the Resurrection, Brother. The Practice of the Presence of God.
• Merton, Thomas
• The Sign of Jonas
• No Man is an Island
• Life and Holiness
• Thoughts in Solitude
• The Climate of Monastic Prayer
• New Seeds of Contemplation
• The Seven Storey Mountain
• Metz, Johannes Baptist
• Poverty of the Spirit
• The Advent of God
• Nouwen, Henri, J.M.
• With Open Hands
• The Wounded Healer: Ministry in Contemporary Society
• Out of Solitude: Three Meditations on the Christian Life
• Reaching Out: The Three Movements of the Spiritual Life
• Pope John XXIII. Journal of a Soul.
• The Sayings of the Desert Fathers: The Alphabetical Collection.
• Teresa of Avila, St. The Collected Works of St. Teresa of Avila.
• Therese of Lisieux, St.
• Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of St. Therese of Lisieux
• Collected Letters of St. Therese of Lisieux
• Van Breemen, Peter G.
• As Bread That is Broken
• Called By Name

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