Teresa of Avila: The Progress of a Soul
10 best books like Teresa of Avila: The Progress of a Soul (Cathleen Medwick): The Life of Saint Teresa of Ávila by Herself, The Joyful Beggar: St. Francis of Assisi, Poustinia: Encountering God in Silence, Solitude and Prayer (Madonna House Classics Vol.1), Prayer Primer: Igniting a Fire Within, Music of Silence: A Sacred Journey Through the Hours of the Day, The Old Testament, The Monks of Tibhirine: Faith, Love, and Terror in Algeria, Why Catholics are Right, Teresa of Ávila: An Extraordinary Life, The Seven Mountains of Thomas Merton
The Life of Saint Teresa of Ávila by Herself
| Author | Teresa of Ávila |
| ISBN | 0140440739 |
Born in the Castilian town of Ávila in 1515, Teresa entered the Carmelite convent of the Incarnation when she was twenty-one. Tormented by illness, doubts and self-recrimination, she gradually came to recognize the power of prayer and contemplation - her spiritual enlightenment was intensified...
The Joyful Beggar: St. Francis of Assisi
| Author | Louis de Wohl |
| ISBN | 0898708141 |
In this magnificent and stirring novel, Louis de Wohl turns his famed narrative skill to the story of the soldier and merchant's son who might have been right-hand man to a king … and who became instead the most beloved of all saints. Set against the tempestuous background of 13th Century Italy and Egypt,...
Poustinia: Encountering God in Silence, Solitude and Prayer (Madonna House Classics Vol.1)
| Author | Catherine de Hueck Doherty |
| ISBN | 0921440545 |
Poustinia: Encountering God in Silence, Solitude and Prayer The renowned modern spiritual classic! Catherine Doherty brings readers the profound traditions of Christian spirituality surrounding the Russian word poustinia, which means desert. Catherine combines her insights into the great...
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 | David Steindl-Rast |
| ISBN | 1569752974 |
Read this little book in preparation for and on a Quiet Retreat. It was a helpful overview of the monastic hours of the day and the gifts each hour brings. A great book to read to help re-cover a sense of the rhythms of our days and years.
I particularly like the chapter on the hour of Prime in that it...
| Author | Amy-Jill Levine |
| ISBN | 1565853652 |
Course Lecture Titles
1. In the Beginning
2. Adam and Eve
3. Murder, Flood, Dispersion
4. Abraham, Sarah, and Hagar
5. Isaac
6. The Jacob Saga
7. Folklore Analysis and Type Scenes
8. Moses and Exodus
9. The God of Israel
10. Covenant and Law, Part I
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The Monks of Tibhirine: Faith, Love, and Terror in Algeria
| Author | John W. Kiser |
| ISBN | 0312302940 |
The inspiration for the major motion picture "Of Gods and Men"
In the spring of 1996 armed men broke into a Trappist monastery in war-torn Algeria and took seven monks hostage, pawns in a murky negotiation to free imprisoned terrorists. Two months later their severed heads were found in a tree;...
| Author | Michael Coren |
| ISBN | 0771023219 |
A practicing Catholic defends the faith and offers a passionate response to current anti-Catholic opinion.
In Why Catholics Are Right, author, columnist, and practicing Catholic Michael Coren examines four main aspects of Catholicism as they are encountered, understood, and more...
| Author | Shirley du Boulay |
| ISBN | 0974240524 |
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,...
| Author | Michael Mott |
| ISBN | 0156806819 |
“When I reveal most, I hide most.” ~Thomas Merton
I thoroughly enjoyed this biography savoring it as I spent time getting to know an author—who I consider more of a friend—better. I do not, however, recommend Seven Mountains of Thomas Merton for someone who has only a casual interest...
The Holy Twins: Benedict and Scholastica
| Author | Kathleen Norris |
| ISBN | 0399234241 |
I love this book! Written by two favorite authors, Kathleen Norris and Tomie dePaola. I fell in love with the Benedictine Rule and Norris when I read her "A Cloister Walk" . . . wish I could remember when but I loaned my copy. And dePaola was familiar to me for his many charmingingly-illustrated children's...
| Author | Benedict XVI |
| ISBN | 1586173677 |
St. Paul is one of the most important figures in Christian history. As Saul of Tarsus he vigorously persecuted Christianity, even collaborating in the death of Christianity's first martyr, Stephen. His encounter with the resurrected Jesus on the road to Damascus changed Paul's life, the Christian...
Death on a Friday Afternoon: Meditations on the Last Words of Jesus from the Cross
| Author | Richard John Neuhaus |
| ISBN | 0465049338 |
Numerous writers and composers have been captivated by the suggestiveness of Jesus' Seven Last Words. But Richard John Neuhaus's sustained exploration of these utterances is something altogether different. Through them he plumbs the depths of human experience and sets forth the central narrative...
From the Library of C. S. Lewis: Selections from Writers Who Influenced His Spiritual Journey (Writers' Palette Book)
| Author | James Stuart Bell |
| ISBN | 0877880441 |
Discover great truths from C. S. Lewis’s mentors
C. S. Lewis was perhaps the greatest Christian thinker of the twentieth century. He delighted us in The Chronicles of Narnia, intrigued us in The Screwtape Letters, mystified us in The Space Trilogy, and convinced us in Mere Christianity....
Hungry Souls: Supernatural Visits, Messages, and Warnings from Purgatory
| Author | Gerard J.M. van den Aardweg |
| ISBN | 0895558998 |
After a week of hearing ghostly noises, a man is visited in his home by the spirit of his mother, dead for three decades. She reproaches him for his dissolute life and begs him to have Masses said in her name. Then she lays her hand on his sleeve, leaving an indelible burn mark, and departs...
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Mary: The Church at the Source
| Author | Hans Urs von Balthasar |
Two great theologians endeavor to recover the centrality of Marian doctrine and devotion for the contemporary Church, offering a spiritually rich approach to Mariology that brings into new relief the Marian contours of ecclesial faith. Ratzinger and von Balthasar show that Mary is both the embodiment...
The 7 Secrets of the Eucharist
| Author | Vinny Flynn |
| ISBN | 1884479316 |
Pope John Paul II referred to the Holy Eucharist as "the greatest treasure of the Church," and yet even many devoted Catholics have a very limited understanding of this powerful sacrament. This book will change all that. The reader will come away with a completely new awareness that the Eucharist is...
"What the world most needs today is prayer. It is prayer that will give birth to all the renewals, healings, deep and fruitful transformations we all want for society today.... I am more and more convinced that everything comes from prayer and that, among the calls of the Spirit, this is the first and most...
The Ascent of Mount Carmel
| Author | Juan de la Cruz |
| ISBN | 1428614001 |
Written between 1578 and 1579 in Granada, Spain, after John's escape from prison, the Ascent is illustrated by a diagram of the process outlined in the text of the Soul's progress to the summit of the metaphorical Mount Carmel where God is encountered. The work is divided into three sections and is set...
The One Thing Is Three: How the Most Holy Trinity Explains Everything
With humor and ease, Father Michael Gaitley, MIC, deftly unlocks the “one thing,” the key to the Church’s wisdom, and the greatest mystery of the Catholic faith: the Most Holy Trinity. Far from being a scholarly or academic read, The “One Thing” is Three makes deep theology accessible to...
