LaPetiteSoeur Posted August 16, 2011 Share Posted August 16, 2011 Hi Pham! I am starting a little Catholic book club (so far, just me). I am doing a book club with a friend, but those books are the classics. What Catholic books would you suggest I add to the Catholic Book club? Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lil Red Posted August 16, 2011 Share Posted August 16, 2011 what are your interests? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
missionseeker Posted August 16, 2011 Share Posted August 16, 2011 anything by Newman, C.S. Lewis or Chesterton. or Tolkien, even Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaPetiteSoeur Posted August 16, 2011 Author Share Posted August 16, 2011 Anything Catholic. So books/works by the saints, Church Doctors, theologians, etc. I'd like to learn as much as I can about the Catholic Faith. Some books I already have on the list are: St. Faustina's Diary, Fire Within, Saint Thomas Aquinas (Chesterton), My Best Teachers were the Saints, A Right to be Merry (I've read it before, but I like it). Thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lil Red Posted August 16, 2011 Share Posted August 16, 2011 ummm, i got the Catholic part. what are your specific interests? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaPetiteSoeur Posted August 16, 2011 Author Share Posted August 16, 2011 Vocations, stories of the saints, uh, anything. Sorry I'm not more helpful! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laudate_Dominum Posted August 16, 2011 Share Posted August 16, 2011 Catholic classics! Augustine's [i]Confessions[/i]; Athanasius [i]On The Incarnation[/i]; maybe Irenaeus, Justin, Cassian, Nyssa, Damascene... The Areopagite, Boethius, Maximos, Anselm, Bonaventure, Aquinas, Eckhart, Tauler, Suso, Catherine of Siena, a Kempis, de Sales, Teresa of Avila, John of the Cross, et cetera... You could make a list of great books spanning Church history or something. Just an idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wikitiki Posted August 16, 2011 Share Posted August 16, 2011 Umumum [i]And You Are Christ's[/i] by Thomas Dubay, [i]Purgatory Explained[/i] by Fr. F.X. Shouppe, anything by St. Francis de Sales or St. Louis de Montfort. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Papist Posted August 16, 2011 Share Posted August 16, 2011 Fiction or non-fiction? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother Adam Posted August 16, 2011 Share Posted August 16, 2011 I would start with something more lightweight for your first get together, not fluffy, but I wouldn't dive into the Summa either. I have seen a lot of book clubs fall apart because they started too heavy too fast. Maybe Frank Sheed or Teresa of Avila. Or even a work of Catholic fiction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatherineM Posted August 16, 2011 Share Posted August 16, 2011 My book has lots of Catholic stuff in it. I even throw up on a priest in it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deus te Amat Posted August 16, 2011 Share Posted August 16, 2011 (edited) [img]http://i43.tower.com/images/mm101786021/new-wine-dominican-spirituality-drink-called-happiness-paul-murray-paperback-cover-art.jpg[/img] Edited August 16, 2011 by Deus_te_Amat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MissScripture Posted August 16, 2011 Share Posted August 16, 2011 [quote name='CatherineM' timestamp='1313519907' post='2289250'] My book has lots of Catholic stuff in it. I even throw up on a priest in it. [/quote] Seriously, what haven't you done? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Byzantine Posted August 16, 2011 Share Posted August 16, 2011 Fr. Christopher Zugger's [i]Finding a Hidden Church[/i] is a great one. It's available from Eastern Christian Publications. Couldn't have done my term paper in Honors World History without it. Also excellent is [i]"You Shall Be Witnesses unto Me,"[/i] by Fr. Athanasius Pekar, OSBM, (from the Byzantine Seminary Press) if copies can be found. I've recently started reading [i]Theodore Romzha: His Life, Times, and Martyrdom[/i] (another Eastern Christian Publications one) by Fr. Laslo Puskas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatherineM Posted August 16, 2011 Share Posted August 16, 2011 [quote name='MissScripture' timestamp='1313520119' post='2289254'] Seriously, what haven't you done? [/quote] Never been on a rollercoaster. Never worn high heels (I didn't want to hit my head on things). Never owned a cat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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