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Recommended Books

On the Spiritual Life:

St. Francis de Sales, Introduction to the Devout Life

St. Francis de Sales, The Art of Loving God [Sophia Institute Press]

St. Robert Bellarmine, The Art of Dying Well [It may sound morbid, but it’s a great book about living a holy life so that we are ready to go straight to the arms of our Heavenly Father when our time comes. — BJC] [Sophia Institute Press]

St. Therese of Lisieux, Story of a Soul

St. Faustina, Diary: Divine Mercy in My Soul

For Meditation:

Glimpses of the Church Fathers, ed. by Claire Russell [116 short readings from early Saints of the Church] [Scepter Press]

Series titled:  Sermon in a Sentence, 5 pocket-sized volumes:  St. Therese, St. Francis de Sales, St. Catherine of Siena, St. Teresa of Avila, St. Thomas Aquinas

Adoration: Eucharistic Texts and Prayers throughout Church History, editor:  Daniel P. Guernsey [Ignatius Press]

Spiritual Reading:

Elisabeth Leseur, Secret Diary of Elisabeth Leseur (her cause for canonization is currently underway)

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