Book Recommendation
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Humility Rules |
Saint Benedict's fifth-century guide to humility offers the antidote to the epidemic of stress and depression overwhelming modern young adults. But the language of The Rule by Saint Benedict is medieval, and its most passionate advocates are cloistered monks and nuns. How then does this ancient wisdom translate into advice for ordinary people? |
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THE New Paganism |
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Jesus and the Jewish Roots of the Eucharist |
A revelatory exploration of the Jewish roots of the Last Supper that seeks to understand exactly what happened at Jesus’ final Passover. Dr. Brant Pitre, Jesus & the Jewish Roots of the Eucharist- Video |
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He Leadeth Me by Fr. Walter Ciszek, S.J. |
He Leadeth Me is the deeply moving personal story of one man's spiritual odyssey and the unflagging faith which enabled him to survive the horrendous ordeal that wrenched his body and spirit to near collapse. Captured by the Russian army during World War II and convicted of being a Vatican spy, American Jesuit Father Walter J. Ciszek spent some 23 agonizing years in Soviet prisons and the labor camps of Siberia. He here recalls how it was only through an utter reliance on God's will that he managed to endure. He tells of the courage he found in prayer-a courage that eased the loneliness, the pain, the frustrations, the anguish, the fears, the despair. For, as Ciszek relates, the solace of spiritual contemplation gave him an inner serenity upon which he was able to draw amidst the "arrogance of evil" that surrounded him. Learning to accept even the inhuman work of toiling in the infamous Siberian salt mines as a labor pleasing to God, he was able to turn adverse... |
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Religion of the Day |
We are living in a highly religious age. Secular gospels and dogmatic faiths promising salvation are all around us. So what is the belief system, the religious vision, that is displacing Christianity as the assumed narrative by which our post-Christian, modern societies live? And what is the religion that we ourselves need to be converted out of, if we are to be fully converted to the Christian faith? |
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Screwtape Letters  |
The Screwtape Letters is a satirical and thought-provoking Christian novel written as a series of fictional letters from a senior demon, Screwtape, to his inexperienced nephew, Wormwood. Screwtape advises Wormwood on how to tempt and corrupt a human soul, referred to as "the patient," and keep him away from God — whom the demons call “the Enemy.” Through their correspondence, C.S. Lewis explores themes of temptation, spiritual warfare, pride, distraction, and the nature of faith, offering deep insight into the human condition and the subtle ways evil can work. The book uses irony and wit to reveal truths about moral struggle and the importance of spiritual vigilance, ultimately highlighting God's grace and love as victorious. |
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From Christendom to Apostolic Mission |
Every human society possesses a moral and spiritual imaginative vision, a set of assumptions and ways of looking at things according to which life proceeds. This essay is an attempt to contribute effective strategies to engage our own time and culture once more with the Gospel of Jesus Christ and – for a weary world – to awaken the Catholic imaginative vision. |
