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Entering Teresa of Avila's Interior Castle: A Reader's Companion 2 reviews
Gillian T. W. Ahlgren
Paulist Press, 2005
If you like Teresa, you'll LOVE this book!
+ Well written and very helpful
This book is truly a wonderful guide to the world of Teresa of Avila. Gillian Ahlgren writes in a very readable style and becomes a delightful companion to your exploration of the Interior Castle. Her keen insights and thorough knowledge of Teresa and of her theology are very illuminating. I ...
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Bernard of Clairvaux: Selected Works (The Classics of Western Spirituality)3 reviews
Bernard of Clairvaux
Paulist Press, 1987
Great Spiritual Reading.
+ Bernard of Clairvaux
+ Bernard Clairvaux: Selected Works
Anyone, I mean anyone searching for a greater understanding on such things as Loving God, Humility and Pride,or conversion of Heart, or many other Topic, should Consider this book as a treasury of Wisdon. St. Bernard takes complicated ideas and concepts and makes them clear for those of us without ...
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The Jerusalem Bible: Reader's Edition24 reviews
Doubleday, 2000
Fresh, literary translation
+ A Good Edition with Few Minor Flaws
+ Great for learning
+ Wonderful Catholic Translation
+ Bible Study
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Happy Are You Poor: The Simple Life and Spiritual Freedom12 reviews
Thomas Dubay
Ignatius Press, 2002
The truth....
+ Radical and Important Message
+ Excellent and Challenging
+ This book will challenge you to sainthood!
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Bonaventure: The Soul's Journey into God, the Tree of Life, the Life of St. Francis (The Classics of Western ... 7 reviews
Ewert Cousins
Paulist Press, 1978
The Vision of God in Jesus Christ
+ Key medieval mystic
+ An Ascent to Radical Grace
+ Beautiful Classic of Christian Spirituality!
+ A Classic
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The Glories of Divine Grace: A Fervent Exhortation to All to Preserve and to Grow in Sanctifying Grace3 reviews
Matthias Joseph Scheeben
Tan Books & Publishers, 2000
Review from the Publisher
+ A real eye opener
+ Grace is everything
An impassioned appeal to us all to understand the nature of Sanctifying Grace, to preserve this incredible gift from God, and to grow in it each day for the rest of our lives. Explains how grace works, what are its effects, how to grow in grace, and the union with God that it allows us to achieve. ...
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Manifesting God 5 reviews
Thomas Keating
Lantern Books, 2005
Finding GOD Within
+ Manifesting God
+ An Answered Prayer
+ Expanding our relationship with God
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Fruits and Gifts of the Spirit3 reviews
Thomas Keating
Lantern Books, 2000
Practical, down-to-earth spiritual view of the Gifts
+ Truly enlightening and inspiring
+ Fruits and Gifts of the Spirit, is Keating's Gift to Us.
The Gifts of the Spirit have always seemed a little fuzzy when it came to living them in my life. Then I read this book and found a whole new way of looking at the Gifts. Besides being more of a practical interpretation/explanation of them, I found a GREAT encouragement for my spiritual growth in ...
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The Way of Perfection10 reviews
St.Teresa of Avila
Baronius Press, 2006
Good introduction to this Doctor of the Church
+ Read to Perfection ! ! !
+ A Classic
+ Saintly Holiness & Its Application to Us
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Invitation to Love: The Way of Christian Contemplation8 reviews
Thomas Keating
Continuum, 1994
Invitation to Deeper Prayer
+ Do you hunger for deeper prayer? Read this book.
+ The "Way"
+ Gentle, solid introduction to contemplation
+ Keating to the rescue again!
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The Meaning of Grace2 reviews
Charles Cardinal Journet
Scepter Publishers, 1997
solid, catholic theology with profound and personnal experience
+ Excellent introduction to the Catholic doctrine of grace
Cardinal Journet is a giant in theology and his work about 'the meaning of grace', a translation of 'entretiens sur la grace' from the French language is one of his biggest achievements. Why so? his other books are often quite longer (eglise du Verbe Incarne)but isn't the question of nature and ...
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Christian Perfection and Contemplation: According to St. Thomas Aquinas and St. John of the Cross1 review
Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange
Tan Books & Publishers, 2004
Words can not describe the amazingness of this book.
This book has changed my life forever. I can not say enough about this book. Every single page is packed with information that can be meditated upon at great lengths.
The book goes through the classical three stages of the ascetical and mystical life. It shows that the way of perfection is ...
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Jean Gerson: Early Works (Classics of Western Spirituality Series)1 review
Paulist Press, 1998
Revealing the human side of the latter Scholastic period
As the introduction included in this volume is clear to point out, Gerson is not a seminal and towering influence over subsequent intellectual developments. Gerson is, however, notable for the reader interested in the decline of the medieval scholastic tradition, for with Gerson's writtings one ...
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Prayer Primer : Igniting a Fire Within9 reviews
Thomas DuBay
Charis Books, 2002
Father Dubay has a gift for writing
+ People who quote the Bible as flowing from them with power
+ Starting a prayer life
+ Prayer Primer: Igniting a Fire Within
+ Prayer Made easy
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Committed Life3 reviews
William, A. Meninger
Continuum International Publishing Group, 2000
A Wonderful Adaptation
+ A lifelong companion
+ Commit to This Book
Meninger has done a wonderful job adapting thi classic work of St. Francis de Sales. The short reflections in this book cover various topics from religious life to the modern world. The insights if this book are extensive. One of the more intriguing is on the sacrament of Reconciliation (p. 65). ...
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Lectio Divina and the Practice of Teresian Prayer (An Ics Pamphlet)
Sam Anthony Morello
Ics Pubns, 1995
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The Three Conversions in the Spiritual Life2 reviews
Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange
Tan Books & Publishers, 2002
Awesome.
+ Not for Beginners
This small book is a synthesis of two Fr. Garrigou-Lagrange's other (much larger) books "Christian Perfection and Contemplation" and "The Love of God and the Cross of Christ." In the Three Conversions, Fr. Garrigou-Lagrange discusses the interior life, specifically the transition from way to ...
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At the Fountain of Elijah: The Carmelite Tradition (Traditions of Christian Spirituality.)1 review
Wilfrid McGreal
Orbis Books, 1999
Learning the truth
I read this book and realized what this religion is all about. This book tells you about the original traditons got started and and great they really are and how rich they are with history. I gave this to three of my friends and they agree with me. I enjoyed this book very much and it helped me ...
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Francisco De Osuna: Third Spiritual Alphabet (Classics of Western Spirituality)5 reviews
Mary E. Giles, Kieran Kavanaugh
Paulist Press, 1981
In the search for true peace of soul, this is the benchmark.
+ Francisco De Osuna: Third Spiritual Alphabet
+ The Serious Christian
+ Solid spiritual book.
+ Passing Through Fire
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Deep Conversion/ Deep Prayer9 reviews
Thomas Dubay
Ignatius Press, 2006
Deep Conversion
+ A book for anyone who wants to be a saint
+ To be re-read
+ total consecration
+ A fantastic book!
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