{"id":34985,"date":"2018-02-13T07:33:11","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T11:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=34985"},"modified":"2018-02-13T08:40:23","modified_gmt":"2018-02-13T12:40:23","slug":"spiritual-reading-for-lent-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2018\/02\/spiritual-reading-for-lent-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Spiritual Reading for Lent 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>We are at the\u00a0beginning the season of Great Lent. May I commend to you these titles for your spiritual reading and meditation (listed in no particular order):<\/p>\n

Alexander Schmemann,\u00a0Great Lent<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n

Richard John Neuhaus, Death on a Friday Afternoon: \u00a0Meditations on the Last Words of\u00a0 Jesus from the Cross\u00a0<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Flannery O\u2019Connor, A Prayer Journal<\/a>\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n

John Behr, Becoming Human<\/a><\/p>\n

Brother Lawrence, The Practice of the Presence of God<\/a><\/p>\n

Jean-Pierre de Caussade, \u00a0The Sacrament of the Present Moment<\/a><\/p>\n

Frederica Mathewes-Green, The Illumined Heart<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n

Frank Sheed, Theology for Beginners<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Peter Kreeft, Your Questions, God’s Answers<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Pope Benedict XVI, Holy Days: Meditations on the Feasts, Fasts, and Other Solemnities of the Church\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Pope Benedict XVI, Jesus of Nazareth: Holy Week: From the Entrance Into Jerusalem To The Resurrection\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Which books would you recommend for Lent?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We are at the\u00a0beginning the season of Great Lent. May I commend to you these titles for your spiritual reading and meditation (listed in no particular order): Alexander Schmemann,\u00a0Great Lent Richard John Neuhaus, Death on a Friday Afternoon: \u00a0Meditations on the Last Words of\u00a0 Jesus from the Cross\u00a0 Flannery O\u2019Connor, A Prayer Journal\u00a0 John Behr, … Continue reading Spiritual Reading for Lent 2018<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[1953,32256],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34985"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34985"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34988,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34985\/revisions\/34988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}