Little Flower Posted September 28, 2011 Share Posted September 28, 2011 I reading, does anybody have any good books to recommend? Especially about nuns Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaPetiteSoeur Posted September 29, 2011 Share Posted September 29, 2011 A Right to Be Merry Five for Sorrow, Ten for Joy The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything In Good Company Bernie Becomes a Nun No Two Alike (Maryknoll sisters. A really old one, but a good one!) Divine Mercy in My Soul Mere Christianity The Screwtape Letters () St Thomas Aquinas (Chesterton) St. Francis of Assisi (Chesterton) A People's History of Christianity Doing FaithJustice The World's First Love um....That's all I can think of off the top of my head. When I have full use of my home bookshelf, I'll post again! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OnlySunshine Posted September 29, 2011 Share Posted September 29, 2011 (edited) [url="http://www.amazon.com/Right-Merry-Mother-Mary-Francis/dp/0898708249/ref=pd_sim_b1"][i]A Right to Be Merry[/i] by Mother Mary Francis, PCC[/url] [url="http://www.amazon.com/Autobiography-Saint-Therese-Lisieux-Story/dp/0385029039/ref=pd_sim_b9"][i]Story of a Soul[/i] by St. Therese of Lisieux[/url] [url="http://www.amazon.com/Amata-Means-Beloved-Catharine-Perry/dp/0595300243"][i]Amata Means Beloved[/i] by Sr. Mary Catherine of the Summit Dominicans[/url] [url="http://www.amazon.com/Diary-Divine-Mercy-My-Soul/dp/1596141107/ref=pd_sim_b20"][i]Divine Mercy in My Soul[/i] by St. Faustina Kowalska[/url] [url="http://www.amazon.com/Interior-Castle-Thrift-Teresa-Avila/dp/0486461459/ref=pd_sim_b4"][i]The Interior Castle[/i] by St. Teresa of Avila[/url] [url="http://www.amazon.com/God-Joy-My-Life-Biography/dp/B0006S09ZW/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1317255556&sr=1-1"][i]God, the Joy of My Life[/i] by St. Teresa of the Andes[/url] [url="https://www.tanbooks.com/index.php/page/shop:flypage/product_id/687/"][i]Religious Vocation: An Unnecessary Mystery[/i] by Fr. Richard Butler, O.P.[/url] Edited September 29, 2011 by MaterMisericordiae Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Little Flower Posted September 29, 2011 Author Share Posted September 29, 2011 Thanks so much! I'll have to see if my library has any of these books! Or if I can get them used! I've read already A Right to be Merry, the Screwtape Letters, and Story of a Soul. I loved them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
i<3franciscans Posted September 29, 2011 Share Posted September 29, 2011 Rediscovering Catholicism by Matthew Kelly By What Authority (AMAZING NOVEL!!!!) by Robert Hugh Benson The Diary of St. Faustina Those are my top three.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sistersintigo Posted September 29, 2011 Share Posted September 29, 2011 An earlier post has already name-checked "Five for Sorrow, Ten for Joy," on the Soeurs Dominicaines de Bethanie. The author is Rumer Godden, and also by her is "In This House of Brede" on cloistered Benedictine nuns. "My Beloved" is from Carmel, hard to find, and well worth studying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FutureSister2009 Posted September 29, 2011 Share Posted September 29, 2011 Anything about St. Therese definitely. I want to read as many books about her as possible! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EWIE Posted September 29, 2011 Share Posted September 29, 2011 [color=#800000][size=4][b]I just finished reading "the Tulip and the Pope", again.[/b][/size][/color] [color=#800000][size=4][b]It was still wonderful.[/b][/size][/color] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
faithcecelia Posted September 29, 2011 Share Posted September 29, 2011 Last Conversations of St Therese - her beauty and simplicity but without the sugariness of SOS The Love that Keeps Us Sane by Marc Foley - Little, pocketbook size, easy to read in one go, Therese's common sense that kept her going and true to the Rule in what was basically a not great Carmel - this was the book that finally helped me to 'get' Therese Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EWIE Posted September 29, 2011 Share Posted September 29, 2011 [color=#800000][b][size=4]Tulip and the Pope is a semi-fictional story of the authors entrance into the Iowa BVM's.[/size][/b][/color] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
faithcecelia Posted September 29, 2011 Share Posted September 29, 2011 (edited) For novels I like Going In and Life Class by Jenny Newman, who was a former nun herself. They are set in 1980s Liverpool, in a teaching order and each book is written from the perspective of a different sister. They [i]are definately[/i] novels and must be taken as such, but much of the day to day basics of the life discribed in the books is very much what I experienced in Carmel today! [size=1]Barring the lesbianism[/size] Edited September 29, 2011 by faithcecelia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
i<3LSOP Posted October 1, 2011 Share Posted October 1, 2011 I suggest: Story of a Soul You Cat (this will probably be to easy....) Under Angles Wings Shower of Heavenly Roses Diary of St. Faustina Consoling The Heart of Jesus I love reading and will post more once I find enough time to read more... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
i<3franciscans Posted October 1, 2011 Share Posted October 1, 2011 [quote name='i<3LSOP' timestamp='1317429108' post='2313131'] I suggest: Story of a Soul You Cat (this will probably be to easy....) Under Angles Wings Shower of Heavenly Roses Diary of St. Faustina Consoling The Heart of Jesus I love reading and will post more once I find enough time to read more... [/quote] Under Angel's Wings is amazing! It is about a girl and her relationship with she guardian angel and she does eventually become a nun. I would highly recommend it for anybody! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sister Marie Posted October 1, 2011 Share Posted October 1, 2011 Catholic Sisters and the Making of America - if you can ignore the women's rights rhetoric, it is an exciting story of passionate and exciting efforts of apostolic women trying to bring the Church to the poor and forgotten... if you can't ignore the agenda... don't read it .. it will just upset you. I enjoyed the stories of the women who had the guts to do what they could with no money and no guarantee of success... It's certainly inspiring! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ameliabedelia Posted October 1, 2011 Share Posted October 1, 2011 [i]I Believe in Love[/i] <3! A retreat based on the teachings of St. Therese. [i]The Great Divorce[/i] [i]Four Loves[/i] -CS Lewis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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