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[quote name='rhetoricfemme' post='1545644' date='May 27 2008, 07:46 PM']I don't quite have ten, but there's my contribution:

The Catholic Mystique - Jennifer Ferrara[/quote]
+J.M.J.+
you have great taste! :))

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[quote name='aalpha1989' post='1546728' date='May 28 2008, 04:03 PM']d ust asked for 10, not 72. geez.

YES! I got around the fiddler! dang it! another one!

I got around the f ilter![/quote]

This is how you get around the d[u][/u]ust f[i][/i]ilter.

Anyway, I'd say True Devotion to Mary.

What about The Bad Catholic's Guide to Good Living or The Bad Catholic's Guide to Wine, Whiskey and Song? (I haven't read them, though.)

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[quote name='scardella' post='1548002' date='May 29 2008, 05:20 AM']What about The Bad Catholic's Guide to Good Living or The Bad Catholic's Guide to Wine, Whiskey and Song? (I haven't read them, though.)[/quote]
+J.M.J.+
both hilarious! :lol:

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[quote name='scardella' post='1548002' date='May 29 2008, 07:20 AM']This is how you get around the d[u][/u]ust f[i][/i]ilter.

Anyway, I'd say True Devotion to Mary.

What about The Bad Catholic's Guide to Good Living or The Bad Catholic's Guide to Wine, Whiskey and Song? (I haven't read them, though.)[/quote]


ooooo. d[u][/u]ust f[i][/i]ilter. mwahaha.

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by St John of the Cross....
Ascent of Mt Carmel
Dark Night of the Soul
Living Flame of Love
Spiritual Canticle

by St Teresa of Avila...
Interior Castle
Way of Perfection
Foundations
Autobiography

by St Thomas Aquinas...
Summa Theologica

My breviary (Divine Office - 3 books really since I have the English version)
My Bible/s

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[quote name='Lil Red' post='1547567' date='May 28 2008, 09:00 PM']+J.M.J.+
you have great taste! :))[/quote]

Thanks! I suppose then I should tell you Likewise! :lol:

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Ora et Labora

Hmm...

Imitation of Christ (everyone has to read that!!) :)
Story of a Soul
Confessions by St. Augustine
Screwtape Letters (if that's non-fiction?)
Surprised by Joy which is also by C.S. Lewis
Orthodoxy by Chesterton (love it!!)
Any saint biography really...
The Bible :D
Anything Fulton Sheen (especially Peace of Soul, or something like that.)
Light and Peace (beautiful little book.)
Oh! And my favorite is A Catholic Girl's Guide by Fr. Lacance (sp?)

That's more then 10. :)

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Deus te Amat

Life of Christ - Fulten Sheen
Deus Caritas Est - Pope Benedict
Imitation of Christ - a Kempis
The Fire Within - Dubay
Faith and Certitude - Dubay
Theology and Sanity - Sheed
Bible - God
Letters to a Young Catholic - Weigel
Come Be My Light - Mother Teresa
Dialogues - St. Catherine of Siena

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1. Vulgata Clementina
2. Denzinger-Schonmetzer
3. Acta Apostolicae Sedis
4. Catechismum Catholicae Ecclesiae
5. Catechismum Romanum
6. Missale Romanum (1962)
7. Breviarium Romanum (1962)
8. Pontificale Romanum (1962)
9. Rituale Romanum (1962)
10. De Imitatione Christi

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I Choose God (My best friend has a chapter in this book!)
Story of a Soul
Orthodoxy by Chesterton
The Bible
Letters to a Young Catholic
Theology of the Body
Hallowed be this House
The Four Loves
The Furrow (Jose Maria Escriva....though I don't know if those count as books....)

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yes, exactly. I was getting worried at the lack of Chesterton!

Orthodoxy = win.

others:
Introduction to the Devout Life
Imitation of Christ
True Devotion to Mary

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ARGH!!! So many to choose from!

1. The Imitation of Christ

2. The Introduction to the Devout Life

3. Born Fundamentalist, Born Again Catholic

4. Catholicism and Fundamentalism

5. Story of a Soul

6. Any book on St. Bernadette or St. Francis :P

7. Jesus by Pope Benedict

8. Journey's Home

9. Saints: A Year In Faith and Art

10. Walking With the Saints

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