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spiritual reading list
“Spiritual Reading” is a practice which helps guide our prayer, increase our faith, and increase our knowledge of the faith. We recommend reading one to two books at a time, for 10 minutes each day. Remember, the idea of spiritual reading is to "feed” our prayer and our knowledge; so if a book isn’t working for you, don’t be afraid to change it up. Many of the books on this list are already in our Catholic Seahawks library on campus for free loaning. If we don’t have a book, let us know and we can look into buying it! For your convenience, the books are sorted by category, listed alphabetically by author.
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Prayer
Benedict Baur, In Silence With God
Eugene Boylan, Difficulties in Mental Prayer
Dan Burke, Spiritual Warfare and The Discernment of Spirits
Thomas Dubay, Prayer Primer
Thomas Dubay Fire Within
Francis Fernandez, In Conversation With God
Timothy Gallagher, The Discernment of Spirits: An Ignatian Guide
Benedict Groeschel, Listening at Prayer
Brother Lawrence, The Practice of the Presence of God
Jacques Philippe, Thirsting for Prayer
Jacques Philippe, Time for God
Robert Sarah, The Power of Silence
Our Lady
Raniero Cantalamessa, Mary: Mirror of the Church
Michael Gaitley, 33 Days to Morning Glory
Carol Houselander, The Reed of God
Alphonsus Liguori, The Glories of Mary
Louis De Montfort, True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin
Fulton Sheen, The World’s First Love
Edward Sri, Praying the Rosary Like Never Before
Federico Suarez, Mary of Nazareth
Contemporary Moral Issues
Christopher O. Blum, Joshua P. Hochschild, A Mind at Peace: Reclaiming an Ordered Soul in the Age of Distraction
Richard Cohen, Coming Out Straight
Mary Eberstadt, Adam and Eve After the Pill: Paradoxes of The Sexual Revolution
Matt Fradd, Delivered: True Stories of Men Who Turned From Porn to Purity
Matt Fradd, The Porn Myth: Exposing the Reality Behind the Fantasy of Pornography
Stephanie Grey, Love Unleashes Life: Abortion and the Art of Communicating the Truth
Daniel Mattson, Why I Don’t Call Myself Gay: How I Reclaimed My Sexual Reality and Found Peace
John Paul II, Fides et Ratio (Faith and Reason)
Trent Horn, Can a Catholic Be a Socialist?
Janet Smith, Why Humanae Vitae is Still Right
Eve Tushnet, Gay and Catholic: Accepting My Sexuality, Finding Community, Living My Faith
Fr. Mike Schmitz, Made for Love
Edward Sri, Who Am I to Judge?: Responding to Relativism with Logic and Love
Chris Stefanick, Absolute Relativism: The New Dictatorship and What to Do About It
Chris Stefanick, I AM_: Rewrite Your Name, Reroute Your Life
Stacy Trasancos, Particles of Faith (Student Edition): A Catholic Guide to Navigating Science
Discipleship
Benedict Baur, Frequent Confession
Eugene Boylan, This Tremendous Lover
Jean-Pierre De Caussade, Abandonment to Divine Providence
Jean-Baptiste Chautard, The Soul of the Apostolate
Jean C. J. d Elbée, I Believe in Love
Josemaria Escriva, Christ is Passing By
Frederick Faber, All for Jesus
Timothy Gallagher, The Examen Prayer: Ignatian Wisdom for Our Lives Today
Paul De Jaegher, One With Jesus
Thomas a Kempis, The Imitation of Christ
Ronald Knox, The Hidden Stream
Edward Leen, Why the Cross?
C.S. Lewis, Screwtape Letters
Thomas Merton, Seven Story Mountain
John Henry Newman, Plain and Parochial Sermons
Jacques Philippe, Interior Freedom
Joseph Pieper, Leisure: The Basis of Culture
Francis de Sales, Introduction to the Devout Life
Lorenzo Scupoli, Spiritual Combat
Frank Sneed, To Know Christ Jesus
Fulton Sheen, Life of Christ
Saints (& Nearly So)
St. Augustine, Confessions
G.K. Chesterton, St. Francis of Assisi
Walter Ciszek, With God in Russia
Walter Ciszek, He Leadeth Me
Jason Evert, Saint John Paul the Great: His Five Loves
Maria Faustina Kowalska, Diary of Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska: Divine Mercy in My Soul
Gereon Goldman, The Shadow of His Wings
Teresa of Avila, The Way of Perfection
Therese of Lisieux, Story of a Soul
Ian Ker, John Henry Newman: A Biography
Francis Trochu, The Cure of Ars
Mark Twain, St. Joan of Arc
Evelyn Waugh, Edmund Campion
Gerard Wegmer, Thomas More: A Portrait of Courage
George Weigel, Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II
Marriage, Family, & Feminism
Alice von Hildebrand, Gertrud von le Fort, The Eternal Woman: The Timeless Meaning of the Feminine
Alice von Hildebrand, Man and Woman: A Divine Invention
Alice von Hildebrand, The Privilege of Being a Woman
John Paul II, Man and Woman He Created Them : A Theology of the Body
Hallie Lord, Style, Sex, and Substance: 10 Catholic Women Consider the Things That Really Matter
Amanda Martinez Beck, Lovely: How I Learned to Embrace the Body God Gave Me
Anthony Percy, Theology of the Body Made Simple
Paul Quay, The Christian Meaning of Human Sexuality
Edward Sri, Men, Women, and the Mystery of Love
Christopher West, Good News About Sex & Marriage : Answers to Your Honest Questions about Catholic Teaching
Emily Wilson, Go Bravely: Becoming the Woman You Were Created to Be
Karol Wojtyla, Love and Responsibility
doctrine
G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
Scott Hahn, Catholic for a Reason
Scott Hahn, A Father Who Keeps His Promises
Scott Hahn, The Lamb’s Supper: The Mass as Heaven on Earth
Scott Hahn, Rome Sweet Home
Trent Horn, Why We’re Catholic
Karl Keating, What Catholics Really Believe
Peter Kreeft, Making Sense Out of Suffering
C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
Luis Martinez, The Sanctifier
Josef Pieper, Faith, Hope, and Love
Josef Pieper, The Four Cardinal Virtues
A.G. Sertillanges, The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods
Frank Sheed, Theology and Sanity
discernment, Priesthood, Religious life & celibacy
Raniero Cantalamessa, Virginity
Timothy Dolan, Priests for the Third Millennium
Thomas Dubay, And You Are Christ’s: The Charism of Virginity and the Celibate Life
Timothy Gallagher, Discerning the Will of God: An Ignatian Guide to Christian Decision Making
Benedict Groeschel, A Priest Forever
John Paul II, Pastores Dabo Vobis
John Paul II, Via Consecrata (On Consecrated Life)
Sister Clare Matthiass, Discerning Religious Life
Mother Mary Francis, A Right to Be Merry
Anthony Percy, Theology of the Body Made Simple
Paul Quay, The Christian Meaning of Human Sexuality
Fulton Sheen, A Priest Is Not His Own
Fiction
Dante Alleghieri, The Divine Comedy
R.H. Benson, Come Rack, Come Rope
R.H. Benson, Lord of the World
Willa Cather, Death Comes for the Archbishop
Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory
Victor Hugo, Les Miserables
C.S. Lewis, The Chronicles of Narnia
C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
Flannery O’Connor, Everything That Rises Must Converge
Henryk Sienkiewicz, Quo Vaidis
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenia
Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited
Louis de Wohl, The Last Crusader: Don John of Austria