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Looking for Mary: Or, the Blessed Mother and Me

10 best books like Looking for Mary: Or, the Blessed Mother and Me (Beverly Donofrio): Teresa of Avila: The Progress of a Soul, My Life with the Saints, Called To Question: A Spiritual Memoir, Proverbs of Ashes: Violence, Redemptive Suffering, and the Search for What Saves Us, A Woman's Journey to God, Daughter of Fire: A Diary of a Spiritual Training with a Sufi Master, Virgin Time: In Search of the Contemplative Life, Sister Wendy on Prayer, Mother Teresa's Secret Fire: The Encounter That Changed Her Life, and How It Can Transform Your Own, Dakota: A Spiritual Geography

Teresa of Avila: The Progress of a Soul
AuthorCathleen Medwick
ISBN0385501293
A refreshingly modern reconsideration of Saint Teresa (1515-1582), one of the greatest mystics and reformers to emerge within the sixteenth-century Catholic Church, whose writings are a keystone of modern mystical thought.

From the very beginning of her life in a convent, following the...
My Life with the Saints
AuthorJames Martin
ISBN0829420010
One of Publishers Weekly’s Best Books of the Year
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Winner of a Christopher Award
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Winner of a Catholic Press Association Book Award

Meet some surprising friends of God in this warm and wonderful memoir

James Martin has led an entirely modern life: from a lukewarm...
Called To Question: A Spiritual Memoir
AuthorJoan D. Chittister
ISBN1580511430
Called to Question is Sr. Joan Chittister's most personal and intense writing to date. Centered around a series of conversations with spiritual writers featured in her private journal, Sr. Joan looks at the common questions or dimensions of life as we know them in our daily lives-not answers as we've...
Proverbs of Ashes: Violence, Redemptive Suffering, and the Search for What Saves Us
AuthorRita Nakashima Brock
ISBN0807067970
Rebecca Parker was a young minister in Seattle when a woman walked into her church and asked if God really wanted her to accept her husband's beatings and bear them gladly, as Jesus bore the cross. Parker knew, at that moment, that if she were to answer the woman's question truthfully she would have to rethink...
A Woman's Journey to God
AuthorJoan Borysenko
ISBN1573228354
“Women’s spirituality is as wild and free as that little girl. It is natural, earthy, relational, mystical, embodied, intuitive, sensuous, and compassionate. Slowly but surely, women’s poems, psalms, songs and liturgy are being written and prayed, sung and danced in a way of our own, suitable...
Daughter of Fire: A Diary of a Spiritual Training with a Sufi Master
AuthorIrina Tweedie
ISBN0963457454
A friend lent me this book the past week. Sometimes with spiritual books I like to just open them up to a random page and see if the book speaks to me. That’s what I did with this book the past week.

There are so many beautiful paths in the world, and this book reminds me of the commonalities between...
Virgin Time: In Search of the Contemplative Life
AuthorPatricia Hampl
ISBN0865477167
A gifted writer's inquiry into one of the most profound yet least discussed issues of contemporary American life: the individual's search for faith. It tells of Hampl's quest to escape the indelible brand of a Catholic upbringing, following her to the "old world" of Catholocism in Spain and France,...
Sister Wendy on Prayer
AuthorWendy Beckett
Sister Wendy Beckett, adored and renowned art historian, has spent years in silence and contemplation in her calling as a nun. Her celebrated television specials and books about art have led her many admirers to ask about her own faith and practices. For the first time, in this thoughtful examination...
Mother Teresa's Secret Fire: The Encounter That Changed Her Life, and How It Can Transform Your Own
AuthorJoseph Langford
On Christmas Eve I unexpectedly met two of Mother Teresa's nuns. They were standing at the back doors of my church. They are never at my church. I must admit I get sort of depressed at holiday time, being alone and without a family to celebrate with. I made the "mistake" of going to the 4pm Christmas Eve mass....
Dakota: A Spiritual Geography
AuthorKathleen Norris
ISBN0618127240
A beautiful meditation on life in the Great Plains from award-winning author and poet Kathleen Norris.

 

Kathleen Norris invites readers to experience rich moments of prayer and presence in Dakota, a timeless tribute to a place in the American landscape that is at once desolate...
Dorothy Day: A Radical Devotion
AuthorRobert Coles
ISBN0201079747
Robert Coles first met Dorothy Day over thirty-five years ago when, as a medical student, he worked in one of her Catholic Worker soup kitchens. He remained close to this inspiring and controversial woman until her death in 1980. His book, an intellectual and psychological portrait, confronts candidly...
Autobiography of Madame Guyon
AuthorJeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon
ISBN1595479260
Madame Guyon was a French noblewoman who was born in an unprincipled time fated to its corruption. She grew up in a church as licentious as the world in which it was established: spiritually despondent and plagued by ignorance. Regardless of these tormenting conditions, she rose to the inimitability...
The Half-Mammals of Dixie
AuthorGeorge Singleton
ISBN0156028581
This second collection of short stories by a bright star in Southern fiction showcases a town so tiny it missed the map, the gleefully off-the-wall Southerners who refuse to be pigeonholed, and a South far removed from big-city Atlanta and proper Charleston. As the author says of his characters, "They're...
Good Goats: Healing Our Image of God
AuthorDennis Linn
ISBN0809134632
What a great, but intriguing book. Published by the Society of Jesus and yet this book seems to differ greatly from traditional Catholic of even Western Christian teaching. Sprinkled throughout is several streams of Christianity (I.e. Augustine, Barth, and Balthasar). Well sourced and approachable...
The Lessons of Saint Francis: How to Bring Simplicity and Spirituality into Your Daily Life
AuthorJohn Michael Talbot
ISBN0525943145
I read "The Lessons of Saint Francis" with my 20s/30s Sunday school class at, of all places, St. Francis UMC in Cary, NC, so unlike many of the other books I have read on here, I had a purpose other than just enjoyment in reading it.

Let me start off by saying this is not a bad book. I didn't hate it. But...
Mary Through the Centuries: Her Place in the History of Culture
AuthorJaroslav Pelikan
ISBN0300076614
The Virgin Mary has been an inspiration to more people than any other woman who ever lived. For Catholics, Protestants, Jews, and Muslims, for artists, musicians, and writers, and for women and men everywhere she has shown many faces and personified a variety of virtues. In this important book, a world-renowned...
Teresa of Ávila: An Extraordinary Life
AuthorShirley du Boulay
ISBN0974240524
This intelligent, balanced portrait of an irreverent, intense, and fiery Renaissance woman and her times includes moving excerpts from her letters and sublime spiritual writings. Her unconventional, progressive views on prayer and worship, her outstanding administrative and literary talents,...
Being Catholic Now: Prominent Americans Talk About Change in the Church and the Quest for Meaning
AuthorKerry Kennedy
ISBN0307346846
I thought this book was really interesting, and have found myself bringing it up in random conversations (always the sign of a good book, I think). The author conducted a series of interviews with a variety of Catholics and former Catholics. The range of Catholics/ex-Catholics interviewed for this...
Redeemed: A Spiritual Misfit Stumbles Toward God, Marginal Sanity, and the Peace That Passes All Understanding
AuthorHeather King
ISBN0670018635
An NPR commentator’s story of an unlikely epiphany and the healing power of faith

After years of sleeping around, working as a waitress, and suffering booze- induced blackouts, Heather King settled into sobriety, marriage, and a financially lucrative but unfulfilling career in a Beverly...
The Mystical City of God (4 Volume Set)
AuthorMary of Agreda
ISBN0895558254
Written by Venerable María de Jesús de Agreda, a 17th century Spanish nun, after years of private revelations from God the Father and Most Holy Mary, Mística Ciudad de Dios (The Mystical City of God) is a marvelous and life-changing narrative of most wonderful and hidden mysteries about the life...
The Glories of Mary
AuthorAlfonso María de Liguori
The Glories of Mary by St. Alponsus Ligouri (1696-1787) is one of the greatest Catholic books ever written.

Actually, it is five complete books in one volume. Here the great Doctor of the Church has assembled the very finest information about Our Lady that he could find, all taken from many...
The Desert Fathers
AuthorHelen Waddell
ISBN0375700196
By the fourth century A.D., devout Christians--men and women alike--had begun to retreat from cities and villages to the deserts of North Africa and Asia Minor, where they sought liberation from their corrupt society and the confining shell of the social self. The Desert Fathers is the perfect introduction...
Father Joe: The Man Who Saved My Soul
AuthorTony Hendra
ISBN0812972341
A key comic writer of the past three decades has created his most heartfelt and hard-hitting book. Father Joe is Tony Hendra’s inspiring true story of finding faith, friendship, and family through the decades-long influence of a surpassingly wise Benedictine monk named Father Joseph Warrillow.

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Pray, Hope, and Don't Worry: True Stories of Padre Pio
AuthorDiane Allen
ISBN1593305753
Based in large part upon the stories that have been researched and written for the quarterly Pray, Hope, and Don't Worry publication, the book contains 47 chapters and more than 400 pages. It provides a glimpse into the life and spirituality of St. Pio of Pietrelcina, who has often been called "The greatest...
John Paul the Great: Remembering a Spiritual Father
AuthorPeggy Noonan
ISBN0143037943
From New York Times bestselling author Peggy Noonan comes "a beautifully written testimony about . . . the most historically recognized pope" (Library Journal)

With such accla imed books as When Character Was King, Peggy Noonan has become one of our most eloquent and respected commentators....
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