1. John Henry Newman: Discourses to Mixed Congregations
2. Thomas a Kempis: The Imitation of Christ
3. Réginald Garrigou-Lagrange: Predestination
4. The Diary of St. Maria Faustina Kowalska
5. The life of St. Gemma Galgani
[Disclaimer: I did not say they are not good. Just scary.]
Laodicea 
May 13, 2008 at 9:19 pm
Berenike’s Top Five list of Comforting and Bracing Spiritual Reading:
1. New Testament, esp. the discourses of Our Lord in John 5, the letters of St John, and a whole pile of other bits.
2. Tadeusz Dajczer, The Gift of Faith
3. Garrigou-Lagrange, Three Ages of the Spiritual Life
4. St Catherine of Siena, Dialogue(“Ah! Yes! The fifth gospel” – Don Reto Nay
5. St Francis de Sales, Introduction to the Devout Life
I feel a post about voluntarism and all sorts in Pious Literature coming on, but I expect I will never get round to writing it, so once more I recommend Servais Pinckaers’ Sources of Christian Ethics or the short version, Morality, A Catholic View.
May 13, 2008 at 9:22 pm
Oh! And find a psalm that suits! For ages I used to recite a bit of, I think, ps 92. Currently, since summer, I think, 2006, I am a fan of ps 144, esp. the Douay version.
May 14, 2008 at 7:53 am
Septuagint or Masoretic counting?
I just rediscovered my great liking for Psalm 103 (Septuagint) during the Office of Reading at Pentecost. It even mentions grass! Maybe I shall compile a Top 10 List of Favourite Psalms to make up for the distressing one of Scary Reading.
And NOW: I will not have a single look at the blog before tonight as I shall WORK!
May 14, 2008 at 11:41 am
The ecclesial not pharisaic numbering 🙂
May 15, 2008 at 11:22 pm
[…] Tomorrow is the Feast of Saint Gemma Galgani, whom Pierre Jovanovic (who used to live around the corner from us at Saint Joseph’s, avenue Hoche) referred to in his Enquiry into the Existence of Guardian Angels as The Marilyn Munroe of the Saints. Gemma is the most beautiful and the most fascinating of the saints associated with the Passionists. Her biography, by Father Germano (whose tomb is shown below), was recently placed by one blogger on the top five list of scary spiritual reading . […]
July 25, 2008 at 10:45 pm
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