Book Recommendations!

[Amor vincit omnia]

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Hey Everyone...this would be my first topic i have posted in a very long time...I am always on VS reading everyone vocation stories which are all very inspiring! I wanted to see if you guys could help me...I am in the process of finishing up a book and I would like to have another one to read once I am done with the one I am reading! Any recommendations ??


Thanks
Lee

[Mary Veronica]

Have you already read Secret of Mary by St. Louis de Montfort? It's a summary of the True Devotion to Mary (it can seriously be read in one-sitting). Our Mother Mary is soo beautiful *tear*

[Amor vincit omnia]

[quote name='Mary Veronica' date='15 June 2010 - 11:23 AM' timestamp='1276611822' post='2129227']
Have you already read Secret of Mary by St. Louis de Montfort? It's a summary of the True Devotion to Mary (it can seriously be read in one-sitting). Our Mother Mary is soo beautiful *tear*
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Mary Veronica

Never read it put I will put it on my wish-list to get thanks!

[laetitia crucis]

What kind of books are you looking for?

General spiritual reading?

Lives of the saints?

Books on spirituality?

Books about discernment?

[Amor vincit omnia]

[quote name='laetitia crucis' date='15 June 2010 - 11:36 AM' timestamp='1276612612' post='2129234']
What kind of books are you looking for?

General spiritual reading?

Lives of the saints?

Books on spirituality?

Books about discernment?




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Books about discerment...


Since the my heart has been

[laetitia crucis]

[quote name='Amor vincit omnia' date='15 June 2010 - 10:46 AM' timestamp='1276613174' post='2129236']
Books about discerment...


Since the my heart has been
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Okey dokey!

- [url="http://www.aquinasandmore.com/catholic-books/Meaning-of-Vocation/sku/20451"]The Meaning of Vocation[/url] -- John Paul II
- [url="http://www.amazon.com/Authenticity-Biblical-Discernment-Thomas-Dubay/dp/089870619X/ref=pd_sim_b_6"]Authenticity: A Biblical Theology of Discernment[/url] -- Fr. Thomas Dubay
- [url="http://www.amazon.com/You-Are-Christs-Virginity-Celibate/dp/0898701619/ref=wl_it_dp_o?ie=UTF8&coliid=I8HCL6H69M2VU&colid=19T1HY3TGQJRL"]And You Are Christ's[/url] -- Fr. Thomas Dubay
- [url="http://www.amazon.com/Give-Your-Heart-Institute-Incarnate/dp/1933871245/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1276613684&sr=1-1"]Give Me Your Heart[/url] -- IVE Press
- [url="http://www.aquinasandmore.com/catholic-books/Discerning-the-Will-of-God/sku/22194"]Discerning the Will of God[/url] -- Fr. Timothy Gallagher, O.M.V.

Hope this helps!

[Amor vincit omnia]

[quote name='laetitia crucis' date='15 June 2010 - 11:57 AM' timestamp='1276613865' post='2129239']
Okey dokey!

- [url="http://www.aquinasandmore.com/catholic-books/Meaning-of-Vocation/sku/20451"]The Meaning of Vocation[/url] -- John Paul II
- [url="http://www.amazon.com/Authenticity-Biblical-Discernment-Thomas-Dubay/dp/089870619X/ref=pd_sim_b_6"]Authenticity: A Biblical Theology of Discernment[/url] -- Fr. Thomas Dubay
- [url="http://www.amazon.com/You-Are-Christs-Virginity-Celibate/dp/0898701619/ref=wl_it_dp_o?ie=UTF8&coliid=I8HCL6H69M2VU&colid=19T1HY3TGQJRL"]And You Are Christ's[/url] -- Fr. Thomas Dubay
- [url="http://www.amazon.com/Give-Your-Heart-Institute-Incarnate/dp/1933871245/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1276613684&sr=1-1"]Give Me Your Heart[/url] -- IVE Press
- [url="http://www.aquinasandmore.com/catholic-books/Discerning-the-Will-of-God/sku/22194"]Discerning the Will of God[/url] -- Fr. Timothy Gallagher, O.M.V.

Hope this helps!
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Thanks LC


I have them down on my wish-list! thank you very much! Very much looking forward to reading them!

[laetitia crucis]

[quote name='Amor vincit omnia' date='15 June 2010 - 11:07 AM' timestamp='1276614434' post='2129240']
Thanks LC


I have them down on my wish-list! thank you very much! Very much looking forward to reading them!
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No problem!

I have several of them on my wish-list as well! I read of a few of them in the convent and LOVED them. Now I want my own copies.

[tinytherese]

I haven't gotten to it yet, but I know that another phatmasser recommended this book which is a commentary on The Song of Songs that a woman in discernment supposedly finds very inspiring. http://www.ignatius.com/Products/COL-P/the-cantata-of-love.aspx

a song to listen to as a future bride of Christ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CUGTIWCFyo&feature=PlayList&p=01E1A44C1C3D6A73&playnext_from=PL&index=3

[Amor vincit omnia]

[quote name='tinytherese' date='15 June 2010 - 01:54 PM' timestamp='1276620882' post='2129273']
I haven't gotten to it yet, but I know that another phatmasser recommended this book which is a commentary on The Song of Songs that a woman in discernment supposedly finds very inspiring. http://www.ignatius.com/Products/COL-P/the-cantata-of-love.aspx

a song to listen to as a future bride of Christ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CUGTIWCFyo&feature=PlayList&p=01E1A44C1C3D6A73&playnext_from=PL&index=3
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thanks for the book recommendation! I love reading the Song of Songs...and the youtube video is a song I listen to every day! so breathtakingly beautiful! I heard it a few weeks back and the part that says:

[quote]Love of my life
Look deep in my eyes
There you will find what you need
Give me your life
Lust and the lies
The past you're afraid I might see
You've been running away from me[/quote]

It fits my to a T...I had been running away from Him for a very long time...until one day my 6 year old nephew looked at me and say Titi (Spanish for aunt) did you know God Forgives everyone...he said I learned that Sunday at church...and it was because of those words that I stopped running and open the door to Him again!

[vee]

[quote name='Amor vincit omnia' date='15 June 2010 - 12:07 PM' timestamp='1276621671' post='2129285']
thanks for the book recommendation! I love reading the Song of Songs...and the youtube video is a song I listen to every day! so breathtakingly beautiful! I heard it a few weeks back and the part that says:



It fits my to a T...I had been running away from Him for a very long time...until one day my 6 year old nephew looked at me and say Titi (Spanish for aunt) did you know God Forgives everyone...he said I learned that Sunday at church...and it was because of those words that I stopped running and open the door to Him again!
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Wow that's beautiful.
A book I'd suggest, which is pretty much a unanimous favorite around VS, is A Right to be Merry by Mother Mary Francis. It could be a discernment book in a way because it might help to discern a cloistered vocation At any rate it's simply a good read.

[laetitia crucis]

[quote name='vee8' date='15 June 2010 - 02:14 PM' timestamp='1276625663' post='2129310']
Wow that's beautiful.
A book I'd suggest, which is pretty much a unanimous favorite around VS, is A Right to be Merry by Mother Mary Francis. It could be a discernment book in a way because it might help to discern a cloistered vocation At any rate it's simply a good read.
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I second this recommendation.

It definitely helped me in my discernment of a possible cloistered vocation -- of which I discerned that I am not called to be cloistered.

[vee]

[quote name='laetitia crucis' date='15 June 2010 - 01:26 PM' timestamp='1276626396' post='2129320']
I second this recommendation.

It definitely helped me in my discernment of a possible cloistered vocation -- of which I discerned that I am not called to be cloistered.
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Hahahaha It helped me to discern that I'd make a terrible Franciscan.

[TeresaBenedicta]

[quote name='laetitia crucis' date='15 June 2010 - 11:57 AM' timestamp='1276613865' post='2129239']
Okey dokey!

- [url="http://www.aquinasandmore.com/catholic-books/Meaning-of-Vocation/sku/20451"]The Meaning of Vocation[/url] -- John Paul II
- [url="http://www.amazon.com/Authenticity-Biblical-Discernment-Thomas-Dubay/dp/089870619X/ref=pd_sim_b_6"]Authenticity: A Biblical Theology of Discernment[/url] -- Fr. Thomas Dubay
- [url="http://www.amazon.com/You-Are-Christs-Virginity-Celibate/dp/0898701619/ref=wl_it_dp_o?ie=UTF8&coliid=I8HCL6H69M2VU&colid=19T1HY3TGQJRL"]And You Are Christ's[/url] -- Fr. Thomas Dubay
- [url="http://www.amazon.com/Give-Your-Heart-Institute-Incarnate/dp/1933871245/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1276613684&sr=1-1"]Give Me Your Heart[/url] -- IVE Press
- [url="http://www.aquinasandmore.com/catholic-books/Discerning-the-Will-of-God/sku/22194"]Discerning the Will of God[/url] -- Fr. Timothy Gallagher, O.M.V.

Hope this helps!
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[i]Yessss[/i] to all of these. I've read them all save for Fr. Gallageher's "Discerning the Will of God", although I've heard great things about him.

[Cherie]

"True Spouse of Jesus Christ" by St. Alphonsus Liguori (also called, "The Nun Sanctified by the Virtues of her State in Life")

Can be ordered here for $15: http://www.marianland.com/saints011.html

HIGHLY highly recommended -- we actually read this in the novitiate as part of our formation

Edited June 15, 2010 by CherieMadame

[OnlySunshine]

I recommend:

Adandonment to Divine Providence by Jean Marie C.
When God Asks for an Undivided Heart by Fr Andrew Apostoli, CFR

[Amor vincit omnia]

Thank you everyone for the great recommendations! Looking forward to a lot of summer reading!

[laetitia crucis]

[quote name='MaterMisericordiae' date='15 June 2010 - 03:21 PM' timestamp='1276629709' post='2129370']
I recommend:

Adandonment to Divine Providence by Jean Marie C.
[b]When God Asks for an Undivided Heart by Fr Andrew Apostoli, CFR
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AHA!!! That's the one I've been trying to think of!!!

Thanks for posting that MM! I wanted to recommend that along with my little list, but couldn't remember the title for the life of me. (Up until seeing your post, it was still plaguing my brain. Haha!)

While visiting the CFRs, Sr. Clare had given me a copy to take home with me. (Great book!)

[melporcristo]

+JMJT+


*bump!*

I'm bumping this thread because I am reading the BEST book that's so amazing for discerners!!

[url="http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Mother-Angelica/Raymond-Arroyo/e/9780385510936/?itm=1&USRI=mother+angelica+the+remarkable+story+of+a+nun"]Mother Angelica, by Ramond Arroyo[/url]

I have never really thought of reading her story but its AMAZING!!!!

[TeresaBenedicta]

[quote name='melporcristo' date='21 June 2010 - 06:22 PM' timestamp='1277155358' post='2132394']
+JMJT+


*bump!*

I'm bumping this thread because I am reading the BEST book that's so amazing for discerners!!

[url="http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Mother-Angelica/Raymond-Arroyo/e/9780385510936/?itm=1&USRI=mother+angelica+the+remarkable+story+of+a+nun"]Mother Angelica, by Ramond Arroyo[/url]

I have never really thought of reading her story but its AMAZING!!!!
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Ya know, when I come to think about it, some of the best "tools" for discernment really is simply reading the lives of the Saints. Seems for me that everytime I do, I'm all the more inspired toward the religious life!