Summer reading list 2019
Fr. Thomas Joseph White, OP, of the Angelicum and the Thomistic Institute published a reading reading list. We need to feed our intellect. Keep on reading –faith and reason, friends…. The list
Advent of the Heart
If you are looking for spiritual reading for Advent, but dare I say, for life, I would recommend a book by Jesuit Father Alfred Delp, Advent of the Heart: Season Sermons and Prison Writings, 1941-1944 (Ignatius Press, 2006). Spiritual reading expands the mind and the heart; it challenges our sense of complacency and comfort; spiritual […]
Atchison Blue: A Search for Silence, a Spiritual Home and Living Faith
Judith Valente’s Atchison Blue: A Search for Silence, a Spiritual Home and Living Faith (Ave Maria Press, 2013) is a spiritual memoir noting her pilgrimage points to Mount St. Scholastica monastery in Atchison, Kansas. As many of us Ms Valente is in search of God, meaning, encouragement in the faith, and spiritual healing in a […]
Rebuilt: Awakening the Faithful, Reaching the Lost, and Making Church Matter
I’ve mentioned a recently published book, Rebuilt: Awakening the Faithful, Reaching the Lost, and Making Church Matter by Father Michael White and Tom Corcoran. I am in the process of digesting the content of the book. I find it helpful, realistic and spot-on in many ways. AND, I am persuaded by the indications of the […]
Lights From the East, Pray For Us!
James Michael Thompson has a new book, Lights From the East, Pray For Us! This is his second. Published by Liguori Publications, so pre-order now. The book provides a brief biography, a scripture reading, a reflection, a prayer, and a hymn for fifteen saints from the Eastern Churches. Lights From the East presents the Church’s incredible riches […]
Becoming Human: Meditations on Christian Anthropology in Word and Image
Orthodox theologian John Behr recently published Becoming Human: Meditations on Christian Anthropology in Word and Image (St Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 2013). Being human is what we are created to be. Those of us with flesh and blood, body and soul, are not angels. Christians come at the question of anthropology differently. And it is a […]
Pope Francis: Keys to His Thought
Many of thee books I read or glanced at over the recent six months have not been too helpful in understanding the newly elected Pope, Francis. A recent publication, Pope Francis: Key to His Thought, has promise. Penned by Monsignor Mariano Fazio, Vicar of the Prelature of Opus Dei in Argentina since 2010, begins the substance […]
The lay person’s true calling
“The Christian should be a credible witness… He should work to make the culture one in which he can comfortably live and express his faith. And the person best placed to do this is not the cleric or the religious but the layperson.” Francis Cardinal Arinze The Layperson’s Distinctive Role Order from Ignatius Press
Oakes on nature and grace
Just finished reading and editing a terrific and challenging book on nature and grace yet to be published by my friend Jesuit Father Ed Oakes. It is tentatively titled, The Candle Within: A Theology of Grace as Seen Through Six Controversies (expected from CUA Press). Oakes is writing this text as a seminary and university text. […]
Late summer reading
Just in case you’re looking for something to read this summer (what’s left of it) … Francesca Ambrogetti and Sergio Rubin, Pope Francis: His Life in His Own Words Father Robert Barron The Strangest Way: Walking the Christian Path Pope Benedict XVI, What It Means to Be A Christian Father Peter John Cameron, O.P., Praying with Saint Mark’s Gospel: […]