Recommended Reading
Below are recommended readings to broaden and enrich your spiritual journey.
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Merton, Thomas. Contemplative Prayer.
Keating, Thomas. Invitation to Love.
Keating, Thomas. Intimacy With God.
Keating, Thomas. The Mystery of Christ
Pennington, Basil A Place Apart : Monastic Prayer and Practice for Everyone
Word into Silence by John Main
Practical Mysticism by Evelyn Underhill
The Spiritual Life by Evelyn Underhill
Fr. William Meninger, "1012 Monastery Road - A Spiritual Journey."
St. Teresa of Avila Interior Castle. Benedictine Nuns of Stanbrook Abbey (translator)
The Cloud Of Unknowing. J.Walsh editor.
Light From Light: An Anthology of Christian Mysticism. Edited by Louis Dupre & James A. Wiseman, O.S.B.
Lectio Divina : Renewing the Ancient Practice of Praying the Scriptures M. Basil Penningtion
Bread in the Wilderness by Thomas Merton.
Praying the Psalms by Thomas Merton
The Lord's Song in a Foreign Land : The Psalms As Prayer by Thomas Peter Wahl
Psalms Beyond 2000 by Mark Link
Call to the Center : The Gospel's Invitation to Deeper Prayer M. Basil Penningtion
Praying by Hand : Rediscovering the Rosary As a Way of Prayer M. Basil Pennington
Bringing 'the Imitation of Christ' into the Twenty-First Century William A. Meninger
St. John of the Cross
The Loving Search for God : Contemplative Prayer and the Cloud of Unknowing William A. Meninger
The Process of Forgiveness William A. Meninger
Practice of the Presence of God
by Brother Lawrence of the Resurrection, Hal H. Helms (Editor)
Freedom of Simplicity by Richard J. Foster
Taking Flight : A Book of Story Meditations by Anthony De Mello
Blessed Are You : The Beatitudes and Our Survival
by Evelyn Mattern
Everything Starts from Prayer : Mother Teresa's Meditations on Spiritual Life for People of All Faiths
by Mother Teresa
The Joy of Listening to God by Joycea Huggett
Testament of Devotion Thomas Kelly
Silent Music: The Science of Meditation Johnston, William.
Treatise and Pastoral Prayer Aelred of Rievaulx
Surprised by the Truth11 Converts Give the Biblical and Historical Reasons for Becoming Catholic by Patrick Madrid (Editor)
Ascent to Truth Thomas Merton
Arise from Darkness: When Life Doesn't Make Sense Fr Benedict Groeschel
Catechism of the Catholic Church
Supplement to the Catechism of the Catholic Church
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John Michael Talbot
Keating and Reininger (ed)
Not yet linked but recommended by friends:
Naomi Quenk's Beside Ourselves: Our Hidden Personality In Everyday Life
Born Contemplative: Introducing Children to Christian Meditation by Sister Madeleine Simon.
ART OF PRAYER: an Orthodox Anthology, compiled
by Igumen Chariton of Valamo, translated by E. Kadloubovsky and Eds.
Kenneth Leech's Soul Friend
St. John of The Cross Ascent of Mount Carmel
Translated and edited by E. Allison Peers
Johnston, William. Silent Music: The Science of Meditation
Happold, F. C. Mysticism: A Study and an Anthology
Tuoti, Frank X. Why Not Be a Mystic
Carretto, Carlo. Letters From The Desert
Underhill, Evelyn. Mysticism
Dietrich Bonhoeffer Meditating on The Word (out of print)
Father John Polkinghorne Chaos and Christianity
Thoughts in Solitude by Thomas Merton
Women In Search of The Sacred by Anne
The Luminous Ficion -Medieval Mystics and their Teachings by Anne Bancroft
The Elements of Mysticism by R A Gilbert
Humphreys, Christmas. Concentration and Meditation
Merton, Thomas. No Man Is An Island
Maria Boulding Prayer:Our Journey Home
Thomas Merton, Spiritual Direction and Meditation
Merton, Thomas. No Man Is An Island
Moore, Thomas. Meditations: on the monk who dwells in daily life
Hauser, Richard J. In His Spirit: A Guide To Today's Spirituality
Steere, Douglas V. Together In Solitude
Merton, Thomas. Life and Holiness
Jager, Willigis. Translated by Matthew J. O'Connell. The Way to Contemplation: Encountering God Today
Happold, F. C. Mysticism: A Study and an Anthology
The Practice of the Presence of God.Brother Lawrence of the Resurrection. Translated by Donald Attwater.
Main, John Word Into Silence
Maloney, George A. Inward Stillness
Meister Eckhart: The Essential Sermons, Commentaries,
Treatises, and Defense. Translation and introduction
by Edmund Colledge, O.S.A. and Bernard McGinn.