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