Spiritual Reading
A Catholic Lifetime Reading Plan
Don’t neglect your spiritual reading. Reading has made many saints.
-Saint Josemaria Escriva
Spiritual Reading, Spiritual Classics, History & Culture, Literary Classics, Catholicism Explained
Spiritual Reading
- Navarre Bible-A Great way to read scripture with solid Catholic commentary. This is published by Scepter, but also available through sites such as Amazon.
- Aumann – Spiritual Theology
- Baur – Frequent Confession
- Baur – In Silence with God
- Boylan – Difficulties in Mental Prayer
- Boylan – Tremendous Lover
- Burke – Covenanted Happiness
- Caussaude – Abandonment to Divine Providence
- Chautard – Soul of Apostolate
- Cizek – He Leadeth Me
- de la Palma – The Sacred Passion
- de Sales – Introduction to Devout Life
- de Sales – Treatise on the Love of God
- d’Elbee – I Believe in Love
- Escriva – Christ is Passing By
- Escriva – Way, Furrow, Forge
- Escriva – Way of the Cross
- Faber – All for Jesus
- Garrigou-Lagrange – Three Ages of Interior Life, I
- Garrigou-Lagrange – Three Ages of Interior Life, II
- Granada – Sinner’s Guide
- Holzner – Paul of Tarsus
- Kelly – Rediscovering Catholicism
- Kempis – The Imitation of Christ
- Liguori – 12 Steps to Holiness and Salvation
- Liguori – The Practice of the Love of God
- Liguori – Uniformity with God’s Will
- Martinez – True Devotion to the Holy Spirit
- Montfort – True Devotion
- Lovasik – The Hidden Power of Kindness
- Manzoni – Betrothed
- More – Sadness of Christ
- Perquin – Abba Father
- Plus – Winning Souls for Christ
- Rohrbach – Conversation with Christ
- Scupoli – Spiritual Combat
- Sheed – Theology for Beginners
- Sheed – To Know Christ Jesus
- Sheen – Life of Christ
- Sheen – Three to Get Married
- Tanqueray – Spiritual Life
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Spiritual Classics
- Augustine – City of God
- Augustine – Confessions of St. Augustine
- St. Catherine – Little Talks with God (modernized version of “The Dialogues”)
- Chesterton – Everlasting Man
- Chesterton – Orthodoxy
- John of the Cross – Dark Night of the Soul
- Lewis – Problem with Pain
- Lewis – Mere Christianity
- Lewis – Screwtape Letters
- Oursler – The Greatest Story Ever Told
- Mother Teresa – Meditations from a Simple Path
- St. Teresa of Avila – Interior Castle
- Teresa of Avila-Way of Perfection
- St. Therese of Lisieux – Story of a Soul
- St. Thomas Aquinas – My Way of Life
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History and Culture
- Belloc – The Great Heresies
- Belloc – How The Reformation Happened
- Belloc – Survivals and New Arrivals
- Carroll – History of Christendom (All Volumes)
- Crocker – Triumph
- Dawson – Christianity and European Culture
- Guardini – End of the Modern World
- Knox – Enthusiasm
- Leclercq – Love of Learning and the Desire for God
- Walsh – Our Lady of Fatima
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Literary Classics
- Benson – Lord of the World
- Bernanos – The Diary of a Country Priest
- Cervantes – Don Quixote
- Dante – Divine Comedy
- Eliot – Christianity and Culture
- Endo – Silence
- Hopkins – Hopkins: Poetry and Prose
- Newman – Idea of a University
- O’Connor – Flannery O’Connor: Complete Stories
- Percy – Lost in Cosmos
- Percy – Love in the Ruins
- Sienkiewicz – Quo Vadis
- Tolkien – Lord of Rings
- Kristen Lavransdatter 1
- Kristen Lavransdatter 2
- Kristen Lavransdatter 3
- Waugh – Brideshead Revisited
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Catholicism Explained
- Catechism of the Catholic Church
- Adams – The Spirit of Catholicism
- Bouyer – Spirit and Forms of Protestantism
- Hahn – Rome Sweet Home
- Kreeft – Christianity for Modern Pagans
- Newman – Essay on Development of Christian Doctrine
- Ott – Fundamentals of Catholic Dogma
- Pieper – The Four Cardinal Virtues
- Trese-The Faith Explained
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Holy Men and Women
- Chesterton – St. Francis of Assisi
- Day – Long Loneliness
- John XXIII – Journal of a Soul
- Merton – Seven Storey Mountain
- Muggeridge – Something Beautiful for God
- Newman – Apologia Pro Vita Sua
- Suarez – Mary of Nazareth
- Trochu – Cure of Ars
- Wegener – Thomas More
- Weigel – Witness to Hope
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• Benedict XVI – Opera Omnia – Misc
• Benedict XVI – Day by Day with the Pope – Misc
• Bennet – The Temperament God Gave You – Misc
• Bennet – The Emotions God Gave You – Misc
• Chesterton – St. Thomas Aquinas
• Chevrot – Simon Peter
• Enzler – My Other Self – Misc
• Guardini – The Lord
• Hannam – God’s Philosophers – History
• Hildebrand – Transformation
• Hildebrand – The Privilege of Being a Woman
• John Paul II – Opera Omnia – Misc
• Masson – Companion Guide to Rome – Misc
• Monti – King’s Good Servant but God’s First
• Neuhaus – Catholic Matters – Misc.
• Newman – The Rule of Our Warfare
• Phillipe – Opera Omnia
• Rice – 50 Questions on the Natural Law – Misc.
• Sertillanges – Intellectual Life – Misc
• Stein – Woman – Misc
• Vann – The Divine Pity
Taken from https://www.catholicity.com/mccloskey/readingplan.html
by Father John McCloskey
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