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[quote name='Theologian in Training' post='969526' date='May 4 2006, 02:13 AM']
Most of my books are in boxes, but I have retained a few of them since I go on retreat this weekend. Since I always take it with me when I am on retreat, and still have not finished it, I am reading on/off "[i]The Soul of the Apostolate[/i]." However, seeing as the academic year is winding down (or done for me) and I really have no desire to do anything academic ...
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Ahhh! I love [i]The Soul of the Apostolate[/i] I've been reading it on and off for the last few months, and I'm really enjoying it!! :topsy:

I've just finished a bunch of books by [i]Michael O'Brien[/i] which I thought were fantastic, and really thought provoking...

I'm also reding St Teresa of Avila's [i]Way of Perfection[/i] which is also really good!

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Not in any particular order (I ought to fix that at some point)...

[b](Catholic/Christian) Library of Jillian:[/b] (Revised 2006)***

1962 Roman Missal (Pub. by Baronius Press)
Christian Prayer: The Liturgy of the Hours (Pauline Press)
National Directory for Catechesis (USCCB)
Catholic Encyclopedia (Our Sunday Visitor)
Encyclopedia of Catholic Doctrine (Our Sunday Visitor)
Catechism of the Catholic Church
Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church
Fundamentals of Catholic Dogma (Ludwigg Ott)
Navarre Bible: Pentateuch
Navarre Bible: Joshua-Kings
Navarre Bible: Chronicles-Maccabees
Navarre Bible: Wisdom Books
Navarre Bible: Psalms & Song of Solomon
Navarre Bible: Gospel of John
Navarre Bible: Romans & Galatians
Navarre Bible: Revelation
The Teaching of Christ (Bishop Donald Wuerl)
Father McBride's College Catechism
The Interpretation of the Bible in the Church (Pontifical Biblical Commission)
The Jewish People and Their Sacred Scriptures in the Christian Bible (Pontifical Biblical Commission)
Fides et Ratio (Pope JPII)
Veritatis Splendor (Pope JPII)
Evangelium Vitae (Pope JPII)
Rosarium Virginis Mariae (Pope JPII)
Redemptoris Mater (Pope JPII)
Centesimus Annus (Pope JPII)
Familiaris Consortio (Pope JPII)
Love & Responsibility (Pope JPII)
Theology of the Body (Pope JPII)
The Rosary Hour (Pope JPII)
The Jeweler's Shop (Karol Wojtyla/Pope JPII)
Looking at the Liturgy (Aidan Nichols)
Behold the Pierced One (Ratzinger)
Called to Communion (Ratzinger)
Feast of Faith (Ratzinger)
Gospel, Catechesis, Catechism (Ratzinger)
Salt of the Earth (Ratzinger)
God is Near Us (Ratzinger)
Milestones (Ratzinger)
Truth & Tolerance (Ratzinger)
Many Religions, One Covenant (Ratzinger)
Pilgrim Fellowship of Faith (Ratzinger)
Introduction to Christianity (Ratzinger)
Deus Caritas Est (Pope Benedict XVI)
Living the Catechism, vol 1: The Creed (Schonborn)
Living the Catechism, vol 2: The Sacraments (Schonborn)
Living the Catechism, vol 3: Jesus Christ (Schonborn)
Living the Catechism, vol 4: Paths of Prayer (Schonborn)
Loving the Church (Schonborn)
Casti Connubii (Pope Pius XI)
Arcanum (Pope Leo XIII)
Prayer (Hans Urs von Balthasar)
Love Alone is Credible (Hans Urs von Balthasar)
The Privilege of Being a Woman (Alice von Hildebrand)
Sickness unto Death (Soren Kierkegaard)
Theology of the Body: Explained (Christopher West)
The Good News About Sex & Marriage (Christopher West)
Handbook of Christian Apologetics (Peter Kreeft)
Love is Stronger than Death (Peter Kreeft)
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Heaven (Peter Kreeft)
A Shorter Summa (Peter Kreeft)
The Seven Storey Mountain (Thomas Merton)
No Man is an Island (Thomas Merton)
Essays of a Catholic (Hillare Belloc)
Orthodoxy (GK Chesterton)
What's Wrong with the World (GK Chesterton)
The Man who was Thursday (GK Chesterton)
The Everlasting Man (GK Chesterton)
Heretics (GK Chesterton)
St. Thomas Aquinas: The Dumb Ox (GK Chesterton)
St. Francis of Assisi (GK Chesterton)
Life is Worth Living (Fulton Sheen)
Life of Christ (Fulton Sheen)
The Cross & the Beatitudes (Fulton Sheen)
The Seven Last Words (Fulton Sheen)
An Anthology (Josef Pieper)
Leisure, the Basis of Culture (Josef Pieper)
In Search of the Sacred (Josef Pieper)
Mary in the Redemption (Adrienne von Speyr)
The Christian Meaning of Human Sexuality (Fr. Paul Quay)
The Conjugal Act as a Personal Act (Donald Asci)
More Paradoxes (Henry de LuBac)
Fire Within (Dubay)
Making All Things New (Nouwen)
The Way of the Heart (Nouwen)
Suprised by Truth (Patrick Madrid)
The Writings of St. Francis of Assisi (trans. by Brady)
Catholic Moral Tradition (David Bohr)
Veritatis Splendor & the Renewal of Moral Theology (DiNoia & Cessario)
Joan of Arc (Clin)
TRIUMPH: The Power & Glory of the Catholic Church (H.W. Crocker)
Letters to a Young Catholic (George Weigel)
Witness to Hope: Biography of JPII (Weigel)
True Devotion to Mary (St. Louis de Montfort)
The Secret of the Rosary (St. Louis de Montfort)
Story of a Soul (St. Terese of Lisieux)
City of God (St. Augustine)
Confessions (St. Augustine)
Rule (St. Benedict)
The Soul's Journey Into God (Bonaventure)
The Tree of Life (Bonaventure)
The Life of St. Francis (Bonaventure)
Life of Moses (Gregory of Nyssa)
Against the Heresies (St. Irenaeus of Lyons)
Commentary on the Song of Songs (Origen)
On the Incarnation (St. Athanasius)
Introduction to the Devout Life (St. Francis de Sales)
Imitation of Christ (Thomas a'Kempis)
On the Passion of Christ (Thomas a'Kempis)
Dark Night of the Soul (St. John of the Cross)
The Way of Perfection (St. Teresa of Avila)
Interior Castle (St. Teresa of Avila)
How to Converse Continually and Familiarly with God (St. Alphonsus Liguori)
The Sinner's Guide (Ven. Louis of Granada)
John of the Cross (Kavanaugh)
Treatise on Happiness (St. Thomas Aquinas)
The Complete Philosophical and Theological Treatises of Anselm of Canterbury (St. Anselm)
Inferno (Dante)
Purgatorio (Dante)
Paradiso (Dante)
Introduction to Mary (Dr. Mark Miravalle)
Contemporary Insights on a 5th Marian Dogma (Dr. Miravalle)
CoRedemptrix, Mediatrix, Advocate (Dr. Miravalle)
Immaculate Conception and the Holy Spirit (Manteau-Bonamy, OP)
Sermons on the Song of Songs (St. Bernard of Clairvaux)
On Coversion (St. Bernard of Clairvaux)
On the Steps of Humility and Pride (St. Bernard of Clairvaux)
On Consideration (St. Bernard of Clairvaux)
On Loving God (St. Bernard of Clairvaux)
The Consolation of Philosophy (Boethius)
Loves's Sacred Order (Erasmo Leiva-Merikakis)
The Last Ugly Person (Roger Thomas)
The Happiness of Heaven (F.J. Boudreaux)
Responses to 101 Questions on Death and Eternal Life (Peter Phan)
The Resurrection of Life (Bernard Sesboue)
The Greco-Roman World of the New Testament (James Jeffers)
Apostle of the Crucified Lord (Michael Gorman)
The Son Rises (William Craig)
An Introduction to Christology (Gerard Luttenberger)
Letters Liturgical (Eltin Griffin)
Aquinas and His Role in Theology (Chenu)
Knowing the Love of Christ (Dauphinais)
Selected Writings of Thomas Aquinas (McInerny)

(though technically not Catholic, I am including Lewis.. he was close enough)
The Abolition of Man (CS Lewis)
The Problem of Pain (CS Lewis)
Mere Christianity (CS Lewis)
The Screwtape Letters (CS Lewis)
The Weight of Glory (CS Lewis)
The Great Divorce (CS Lewis)
Miracles (CS Lewis)
The Four Loves (CS Lewis)
Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold (CS Lewis)
Collected Letters: Vol. 1 (CS Lewis)
Chronicles of Narnia (7 Volume set) (CS Lewis)

And (not counting Navarre): 7 Bibles (5 Catholic: RSV, 3 NABs, TEV ; 2 non-Catholic: NIV, RSV) and 3 New Testaments (NIV, CEV, and NL)... and the ever coveted Haydock Bible

Books saved on computer:
Treatise on the Love of God (St. Francis de Sales)
On First Principles (Origen)
Letters of St. Ignatius of Antioch
Christ the Instructor (Clement of Alexandria)
The Cloud of Unknowing (Anonymous)
Assent of Mount Carmel (St. John of the Cross)
An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent (Newman)



**dicounting other owned philosophy (i.e., non Christian/Catholic philosophers) and other Literature (i.e., the good stuffs: Hugo, Dickens, Austen, Bronte, Homer, and the other Greeks... etc.)
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[quote name='Fides_et_Ratio' post='970096' date='May 3 2006, 05:41 PM']
:think:

:whistle:

:saint:

:evil:
Not in any particular order (I ought to fix that at some point)...

[b](Catholic/Christian) Library of Jillian:[/b] (Revised 2006)***

1962 Roman Missal (Pub. by Baronius Press)
Christian Prayer: The Liturgy of the Hours (Pauline Press)
National Directory for Catechesis (USCCB)
Catholic Encyclopedia (Our Sunday Visitor)
Encyclopedia of Catholic Doctrine (Our Sunday Visitor)
Catechism of the Catholic Church
Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church
Fundamentals of Catholic Dogma (Ludwigg Ott)
Navarre Bible: Pentateuch
Navarre Bible: Joshua-Kings
Navarre Bible: Chronicles-Maccabees
Navarre Bible: Wisdom Books
Navarre Bible: Psalms & Song of Solomon
Navarre Bible: Gospel of John
Navarre Bible: Romans & Galatians
Navarre Bible: Revelation
The Teaching of Christ (Bishop Donald Wuerl)
Father McBride's College Catechism
The Interpretation of the Bible in the Church (Pontifical Biblical Commission)
The Jewish People and Their Sacred Scriptures in the Christian Bible (Pontifical Biblical Commission)
Fides et Ratio (Pope JPII)
Veritatis Splendor (Pope JPII)
Evangelium Vitae (Pope JPII)
Rosarium Virginis Mariae (Pope JPII)
Redemptoris Mater (Pope JPII)
Centesimus Annus (Pope JPII)
Familiaris Consortio (Pope JPII)
Love & Responsibility (Pope JPII)
Theology of the Body (Pope JPII)
The Rosary Hour (Pope JPII)
The Jeweler's Shop (Karol Wojtyla/Pope JPII)
Looking at the Liturgy (Aidan Nichols)
Behold the Pierced One (Ratzinger)
Called to Communion (Ratzinger)
Feast of Faith (Ratzinger)
Gospel, Catechesis, Catechism (Ratzinger)
Salt of the Earth (Ratzinger)
God is Near Us (Ratzinger)
Milestones (Ratzinger)
Truth & Tolerance (Ratzinger)
Many Religions, One Covenant (Ratzinger)
Pilgrim Fellowship of Faith (Ratzinger)
Introduction to Christianity (Ratzinger)
Deus Caritas Est (Pope Benedict XVI)
Living the Catechism, vol 1: The Creed (Schonborn)
Living the Catechism, vol 2: The Sacraments (Schonborn)
Living the Catechism, vol 3: Jesus Christ (Schonborn)
Living the Catechism, vol 4: Paths of Prayer (Schonborn)
Loving the Church (Schonborn)
Casti Connubii (Pope Pius XI)
Arcanum (Pope Leo XIII)
Prayer (Hans Urs von Balthasar)
Love Alone is Credible (Hans Urs von Balthasar)
The Privilege of Being a Woman (Alice von Hildebrand)
Sickness unto Death (Soren Kierkegaard)
Theology of the Body: Explained (Christopher West)
The Good News About Sex & Marriage (Christopher West)
Handbook of Christian Apologetics (Peter Kreeft)
Love is Stronger than Death (Peter Kreeft)
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Heaven (Peter Kreeft)
A Shorter Summa (Peter Kreeft)
The Seven Storey Mountain (Thomas Merton)
No Man is an Island (Thomas Merton)
Essays of a Catholic (Hillare Belloc)
Orthodoxy (GK Chesterton)
What's Wrong with the World (GK Chesterton)
The Man who was Thursday (GK Chesterton)
The Everlasting Man (GK Chesterton)
Heretics (GK Chesterton)
St. Thomas Aquinas: The Dumb Ox (GK Chesterton)
St. Francis of Assisi (GK Chesterton)
Life is Worth Living (Fulton Sheen)
Life of Christ (Fulton Sheen)
The Cross & the Beatitudes (Fulton Sheen)
The Seven Last Words (Fulton Sheen)
An Anthology (Josef Pieper)
Leisure, the Basis of Culture (Josef Pieper)
In Search of the Sacred (Josef Pieper)
Mary in the Redemption (Adrienne von Speyr)
The Christian Meaning of Human Sexuality (Fr. Paul Quay)
The Conjugal Act as a Personal Act (Donald Asci)
More Paradoxes (Henry de LuBac)
Fire Within (Dubay)
Making All Things New (Nouwen)
The Way of the Heart (Nouwen)
Suprised by Truth (Patrick Madrid)
The Writings of St. Francis of Assisi (trans. by Brady)
Catholic Moral Tradition (David Bohr)
Veritatis Splendor & the Renewal of Moral Theology (DiNoia & Cessario)
Joan of Arc (Clin)
TRIUMPH: The Power & Glory of the Catholic Church (H.W. Crocker)
Letters to a Young Catholic (George Weigel)
Witness to Hope: Biography of JPII (Weigel)
True Devotion to Mary (St. Louis de Montfort)
The Secret of the Rosary (St. Louis de Montfort)
Story of a Soul (St. Terese of Lisieux)
City of God (St. Augustine)
Confessions (St. Augustine)
Rule (St. Benedict)
The Soul's Journey Into God (Bonaventure)
The Tree of Life (Bonaventure)
The Life of St. Francis (Bonaventure)
Life of Moses (Gregory of Nyssa)
Against the Heresies (St. Irenaeus of Lyons)
Commentary on the Song of Songs (Origen)
On the Incarnation (St. Athanasius)
Introduction to the Devout Life (St. Francis de Sales)
Imitation of Christ (Thomas a'Kempis)
On the Passion of Christ (Thomas a'Kempis)
Dark Night of the Soul (St. John of the Cross)
The Way of Perfection (St. Teresa of Avila)
Interior Castle (St. Teresa of Avila)
How to Converse Continually and Familiarly with God (St. Alphonsus Liguori)
The Sinner's Guide (Ven. Louis of Granada)
John of the Cross (Kavanaugh)
Treatise on Happiness (St. Thomas Aquinas)
The Complete Philosophical and Theological Treatises of Anselm of Canterbury (St. Anselm)
Inferno (Dante)
Purgatorio (Dante)
Paradiso (Dante)
Introduction to Mary (Dr. Mark Miravalle)
Contemporary Insights on a 5th Marian Dogma (Dr. Miravalle)
CoRedemptrix, Mediatrix, Advocate (Dr. Miravalle)
Immaculate Conception and the Holy Spirit (Manteau-Bonamy, OP)
Sermons on the Song of Songs (St. Bernard of Clairvaux)
On Coversion (St. Bernard of Clairvaux)
On the Steps of Humility and Pride (St. Bernard of Clairvaux)
On Consideration (St. Bernard of Clairvaux)
On Loving God (St. Bernard of Clairvaux)
The Consolation of Philosophy (Boethius)
Loves's Sacred Order (Erasmo Leiva-Merikakis)
The Last Ugly Person (Roger Thomas)
The Happiness of Heaven (F.J. Boudreaux)
Responses to 101 Questions on Death and Eternal Life (Peter Phan)
The Resurrection of Life (Bernard Sesboue)
The Greco-Roman World of the New Testament (James Jeffers)
Apostle of the Crucified Lord (Michael Gorman)
The Son Rises (William Craig)
An Introduction to Christology (Gerard Luttenberger)
Letters Liturgical (Eltin Griffin)
Aquinas and His Role in Theology (Chenu)
Knowing the Love of Christ (Dauphinais)
Selected Writings of Thomas Aquinas (McInerny)

(though technically not Catholic, I am including Lewis.. he was close enough)
The Abolition of Man (CS Lewis)
The Problem of Pain (CS Lewis)
Mere Christianity (CS Lewis)
The Screwtape Letters (CS Lewis)
The Weight of Glory (CS Lewis)
The Great Divorce (CS Lewis)
Miracles (CS Lewis)
The Four Loves (CS Lewis)
Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold (CS Lewis)
Collected Letters: Vol. 1 (CS Lewis)
Chronicles of Narnia (7 Volume set) (CS Lewis)

And (not counting Navarre): 7 Bibles (5 Catholic: RSV, 3 NABs, TEV ; 2 non-Catholic: NIV, RSV) and 3 New Testaments (NIV, CEV, and NL)... and the ever coveted Haydock Bible

Books saved on computer:
Treatise on the Love of God (St. Francis de Sales)
On First Principles (Origen)
Letters of St. Ignatius of Antioch
Christ the Instructor (Clement of Alexandria)
The Cloud of Unknowing (Anonymous)
Assent of Mount Carmel (St. John of the Cross)
An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent (Newman)



**dicounting other owned philosophy (i.e., non Christian/Catholic philosophers) and other Literature (i.e., the good stuffs: Hugo, Dickens, Austen, Bronte, Homer, and the other Greeks... etc.)
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:shock:

Wow... that is a lot... I thought I was reading many books at once! Wow... I had at least 3 or 4 I am in the middle of currently...

[quote name='hugheyforlife' post='968477' date='May 2 2006, 12:23 PM']
Wanting to read Life of St. Francis of Assisi by Saint Bonaventure
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That is a good read ^_^ I read it while on pilgrimage to WYD... we stopped in Assisi... :lust:

I think it was a fun read... another one to read is the Little Flowers of St. Francis... great stories... :)

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Currently i am working on Parish Priest (The KC book about Fr. McGivney)

Then i am going to take a whack at the rest of my collection.

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Im reading Cantana of Love: A Verse By Verse Reading Of The Song Of Songs by Blaise Arminjon S.J.

Its analysis is less about married love and more about Gods relationship with Israel. I like it a lot.

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Theologian in Training

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[quote name='Fides_et_Ratio' post='970096' date='May 3 2006, 06:41 PM']
:think:

:whistle:

:saint:

:evil:
Not in any particular order (I ought to fix that at some point)...

[b](Catholic/Christian) Library of Jillian:[/b] (Revised 2006)***
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Two words come to mind:

1st: Show off ;)

2nd: Nerd :disguise:

BTW, I have read a lot of what you have listed. All of them quite good.

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[quote name='Fides_et_Ratio' post='970096' date='May 3 2006, 06:41 PM']
:think:

:whistle:

:saint:

:evil:
Not in any particular order (I ought to fix that at some point)...

[b](Catholic/Christian) Library of Jillian:[/b] (Revised 2006)***[/quote]
thanks for reminding me of the 10th commandment :thumbsup: (b/c i'm certainly breaking it right now :unsure:)

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[quote name='Fides_et_Ratio' post='970096' date='May 3 2006, 05:41 PM']
:think:

:whistle:

:saint:

:evil:
Not in any particular order (I ought to fix that at some point)...

[b](Catholic/Christian) Library of Jillian:[/b] (Revised 2006)***


**dicounting other owned philosophy (i.e., non Christian/Catholic philosophers) and other Literature (i.e., the good stuffs: Hugo, Dickens, Austen, Bronte, Homer, and the other Greeks... etc.)
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decent...when my school had us fill out a sheet for insurance I had to stop at roughly 390 books. I am a book junkie and I have a lil bit of coin. My fiancee half-heartedly put a 80-120 cap on my monthly book binges. Also, for holidays and birthdays a barns and noble card is the most common gift.

Im impressed with your selection :flex:

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[quote name='jezic' post='968480' date='May 2 2006, 01:27 PM']


Orthodoxy by Chesterton
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:woot: One of my all time favorites!!

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There's this Catholic history textbook that I want...it looks uber-cool. But it's $50. ::sigh::

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Domine ut Videam

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Right now I am in the middle of....

[u]The Life you Save May be Your Own[/u] By: Peter Elie, it is the biographies of Thomas Merton, Dorothy Day, Walker Percy, and Flannery O'Conner. It is AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :saint: A real "thinking" book.
.
[u]The Diary of St.Faustina[/u]

and [u]Lord of the Flies[/u]....for school.

-Yours in Christ
Lauren

[quote name='Ziggamafu' post='973308' date='May 6 2006, 04:34 AM']
There's this Catholic history textbook that I want...it looks uber-cool. But it's $50. ::sigh::
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Oh....i read a really good history of the Catholic Church called [u]Church History[/u] By: Fr. John Laux. It was really good. I really liked it...plus i could get it cheap online used. :)

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