An Infinity of Little Hours: Five Young Men and Their Trial of Faith in the Western World's Most Austere Monastic Order
10 best books like An Infinity of Little Hours: Five Young Men and Their Trial of Faith in the Western World's Most Austere Monastic Order (Nancy Klein Maguire): He Leadeth Me, Finding God's Will for You, Prayer Primer: Igniting a Fire Within, Acedia & Me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life, Enduring Grace: Living Portraits of Seven Women Mystics, Seeking God: The Way of St. Benedict, Wisdom Distilled from the Daily: Living the Rule of St. Benedict Today, Where God Happens: Discovering Christ in One Another and Other Lessons from the Desert Fathers, God's Fool: The Life of Francis of Assisi, Reluctant Saint: The Life of Francis of Assisi
| Author | Walter J. Ciszek |
| ISBN | 0898705460 |
He Leadeth Me is the deeply moving personal story of one man's spiritual odyssey and the unflagging faith which enabled him to survive the horrendous ordeal that wrenched his body and spirit to near collapse. Captured by the Russian army during World War II and convicted of being a Vatican spy, American...
Finding God's Will for You
| Author | Francis de Sales |
| ISBN | 0918477832 |
The Good:
profound, practical messages; simply and clearly worded
The Bad:
N/A
The lesser known of St. Francis's books, Finding God's Will For You serves as an instructive discussion on how to navigate through life according to God's will. St. Francis de Sales is the patron saint...
Prayer Primer: Igniting a Fire Within
| Author | Thomas Dubay |
| ISBN | 1569553394 |
Prayer Primer is written for adults who want God and a serious prayer life, but it does not presuppose that they need or have a theological background. Dubay answers many questions on prayer. Why pray? Why vocal prayer is important and yet should be limited? What contemplation is and is not. How to pray...
| Author | Kathleen Norris |
| ISBN | 1594489963 |
Kathleen Norris’s masterpiece: a personal and moving memoir that resurrects the ancient term acedia, or soul-weariness, and brilliantly explores its relevancy to the modern individual and culture.
Kathleen Norris had written several much loved books, yet she couldn’t drag herself...
| Author | Carol Lee Flinders |
| ISBN | 0060626453 |
Astonishingly relevant portraits of the lives of seven women mystics Known to more than a million readers as the coauthor of the classic vegetarian cookbook Laurel's Kitchen, Carol Lee Flinders looks to the hunger of the spirit in Enduring Grace. In these striking and sustaining depictions of seven...
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For over fifteen hundred years St. Benedict's Rule has been a source of guidance, support, inspiration, challenge, comfort and discomfort for men and women. It has helped both those living under monastic vows and those living outside the cloister in all the mess and muddle of...
| Author | Joan D. Chittister |
| ISBN | 0060613998 |
I need this type of books so badly. I am reading it slowly taking it all in. Today I am up to page 20 since English is my second language. I kept saying, yes, yes, to almost everything she said. Here are some things I liked in her book:
-The spirituality we develop affects the way we image God.
-The...
| Author | Rowan Williams |
| ISBN | 1590302311 |
The place where God happens, according to Rowan Williams's striking new reading of the Desert Fathers and Mothers, is between each other, It's a truth that we of the twenty-first century most urgently need to learn in order to heal the experience of alienation that has become endemic to our age, and these...
| Author | Julien Green |
| ISBN | 0060634642 |
Four and Half Stars.
First Admission: Prior to reading this biography on the 13th century mendicant saint by Julien Green, I had read one other biography - Saint Francis of Assisi by G. K. Chesterton. And it was a dense work with lot of rationalizations thrown in in a way that could disarm an inquiring...
| Author | Donald Spoto |
| ISBN | 0142196258 |
Acclaimed biographer Donald Spoto strips away the legends from the life of Francis of Assisi to reveal the true story of a man who has too often been obscured by pious iconography. Drawing on unprecedented access to unexplored archives, plus Francis's own letters, Spoto places Francis within the context...
| Author | Michael Casey |
| ISBN | 0892438916 |
Another book I was perusing in preparation for my reading class. I'm going to create a secular lectio divina type exercise, so I wanted to read more about it! After reading about monks and their reading practices, the long history of the art of lectio divina in the church, I feel that more monkish practices...
| Author | Dorothy Day |
| ISBN | 1570751560 |
This volume contained several striking and informative stories about Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker (CW) movement and provides a more substantial discussion of the delightful oddity of her co-founder Peter Maurin than one finds in Day's other writings (he is mentioned throughout the book,...
In The Spirit of Happiness: A Book of Spiritual Wisdom
| Author | Monks of New Skete |
| ISBN | 0316606944 |
I originally bought this book back in 1999, at the start of a difficult and challenging period of my life, and I've been "referring" to it ever since whenever times get tough. Don't let the fact that it was written by monks put you off; they know that everyone needs to do at least a little contemplation now...
Centering Prayer: Renewing an Ancient Christian Prayer Form
| Author | M. Basil Pennington |
| ISBN | 0385181795 |
The practice of prayer and meditation in modern Western Christianity is rooted in the Eastern tradition of early Church prayer as well as the wisdom of early Church fathers. In Centering Prayer, M. Basil Pennington, the author of the highly acclaimed Daily We Touch Him, returns to these roots, offering...
Finding Sanctuary: Monastic Steps for Everyday Life
| Author | Christopher Jamison |
| ISBN | 0814631681 |
In Finding Sanctuary Abbot Christopher Jamison, host of the BBC television series The Monastery, suggests the teachings of St. Benedict are a tool for everyday life 'for those who are religious and for those simply searching for spiritual guidance.
The Monastery involved five non-monks...
Begun five years after he entered the Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani, The Sign of Jonas is an extraordinary view of Merton’s life in a Trappist monastery, and it serves also as a spiritual log recording the deep meaning and increasing sureness he felt in his vocation: the growth of a mind that finds in...
Parish Priest: Father Michael McGivney and American Catholicism
| Author | Douglas Brinkley |
| ISBN | 0060776846 |
"Father McGivney's vision remains as relevant as ever in the changed circumstances of today's church and society."—Pope John Paul IIIs now the time for an American parish priest to be declared a Catholic saint?
In Father Michael McGivney (1852-1890), born and raised in a Connecticut factory...
Trent: What Happened at the Council
| Author | John W. O'Malley |
| ISBN | 0674066979 |
The Council of Trent (1545-1563), the Catholic Church's attempt to put its house in order in response to the Protestant Reformation, has long been praised and blamed for things it never did. Now, in this first full one-volume history in modern times, John W. O'Malley brings to life the volatile issues...
The Catholic Guide to Depression: How the Saints, the Sacraments, and Psychiatry Can Help You Break Its Grip and Find Happiness Again
| Author | Aaron Kheriaty |
| ISBN | 1933184760 |
Countless Christians -- including scores of saints -- have suffered profound, pervasive sorrow that modern psychiatrists call "depression." Then, as now, great faith and even fervent spiritual practices have generally failed to ease this wearying desolation of soul.
In these pages,...
Surrender! The Life Changing Power of Doing God's Will
| Author | Larry Richards |
| ISBN | 1592767591 |
At best, the word surrender is decidedly un-American Remember the Alamo, Leave it all on the field, Never give up. But Scripture and Father Larry Richards can be equally as compelling as he challenges you to go against the grain and do what few are willing to do.
A gifted and captivating speaker,...
Render Unto Caesar: Serving the Nation by Living our Catholic Beliefs in Political Life
| Author | Charles J. Chaput |
| ISBN | 0385522282 |
"People who take God seriously will not remain silent about their faith. They will often disagree about doctrine or policy, but they won't be quiet. They can't be. They'll act on what they believe, sometimes at the cost of their reputations and careers. Obviously the common good demands a respect for...
| Author | Karl Rahner |
| ISBN | 1890318221 |
One of the classics of modern spirituality, Encounters with Silence is one of Karl Rahner's most lucid and powerful books. A book of meditations about man's relation with God, it is not a work of dry theology, but rather a book of prayerful reflections on love, knowledge, and faith, obedience, everyday...
