The Catholic Saints Reading Challenge

[Ziggamafu]

Who is Meister Eckhart, anyway? I've heard / read the name in passing before...

[shortnun]

[quote name='Ziggamafu' date='Jan 3 2006, 03:25 PM']Who is Meister Eckhart, anyway? I've heard / read the name in passing before...
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[url="http://www.op.org/eckhart/meister.htm"]A wonderful Dominican mystic!!![/url]

[phatcatholic]

[quote name='shortnun' date='Jan 3 2006, 09:15 PM'][url="http://www.op.org/eckhart/meister.htm"]A wonderful Dominican mystic!!![/url]
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very informative, thanks shortnun

[Cure of Ars]

Didache, (50-120)
First Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians, St. Clement (80-140)
Apology, St. Justin Martyr (148-155)
Against Heresies, St. Irenaeus, (182-188)
The Passion of Saint Perpetua and Felicity, St. Perpetua, (203)
On the Mortality, St. Cyprian (252)
Epistles on the Arian Heresy and the Deposition of Arius, St. Alexander of Alexandria (321)
Life of St. Antony, St. Athanasius, (356-362)
De Spiritu Santo, St. Basil the Great, (364)
On the Mysteries, St. Ambrose, (374-379)
Confessions, St. Augustine, (397-398)
Life of Moses, St. Gregory of Nyssa, (335-394)
The Incarnation and Human Dignity, St. Peter Chrysologus, (433-450)
Letter XIV, St. Leo the Great, (440-461)
The Confession, St. Patrick, (460-493)
Formula Hormisdas, St, Hormisdas, (519)
The Rule of St. Benedict, St. Benedict of Nursia, (480-543)
The Green Pastures of Heaven, St. Gregory the Great, (590-604)
The Ladder of Divine Ascent, St. John Climacus, (600)
Philokalia, St. Maximus the Confessor, (682)
Conversion of England, St. Bede the Venerable, (735)
Freewill and Destiny, St. John Damascene, (749)
Poenitentiale, St Boniface, (754)
Reform Rules, St. Theodore of Studium, (826)
A Letter of Bishop Amulo of Lyon, Bishop Amulo (850)
A Treatise on Chastity, Sts. Cyril and Methodius, (867)
The Life of St. Adelaide, Abbot Odilo, (942)
Life of St. Romuald, St. Peter Damian, (1042)
Discourse on the Existence of God, St. Anselm, (1093-1109)
On Loving God, St. Bernard of Clairvaux, (1129- 1131)
Scivias, Hildegard of Bingen, (1141-1179)
The Admonitions , St. Francis of Assisi, (1220)
Summa Theologica, St. Thomas Aquinas, (1271)
Mind’s Journey into God, St. Bonaventure, (1274)
De gestis Christis, Bl. Simon of Cascia, (1348)
The Dialogue, St. Catherine of Siena, (1380)
The Imitation of Christ, Thomas A Kempis, (1471)
Treatise on Purgatory, St. Catherine of Genoa, (1510)
Interior Castle, St. Teresa of Avila, (1579)
The Sinner’s Guide, Venerable Louis of Granda, (1588)
Dark Night of the Soul, St. John of the Cross, (1591)
Introduction to the Devout Life, St. Francis de Sales (1622)
The Practice of the Presence of God, Bro. Lawrence, (1691)
True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, St. Louis de Montfort, (1716)
Uniformity with God’s Will, St. Alphonsus Liguori, (1752)
Apologia, Venerable John Henry Newman,(1845)
Story of a Soul, St. Therese of Lisieux, (1897)
Orthodoxy, G.K. Chesterton, (1936)
Diary of St. Maria Faustina, St. Faustina, (1905-1938)
Humanae Vitae, Pope Paul VI, (1968)
On the Way to Christ, Pope Benedict XVI, (2005)


Disclaimer:(The dates given are sometime based on the death of the author if I could not find the date of the work.)

So here is our list so far. Anyone have any issues with the list? Are there better works that we should use for each fifty years?

Edited January 6, 2006 by Cure of Ars

[phatcatholic]

it looks like we have them all but these two periods:
950-1000 and 1400-1450

also, if we want to be real particular about it, the following periods are covered, but not by saints:
900-950 (Abbot Odilo)
1150-1200 (Hildegard of Bingen)
1300-1350 (Bl. Simon of Cascia)
1450-1500 (Thomas A Kempis)
1650-1700 (Bro. Lawrence)
1800-1850 (Venerable John Henry Newman)

1950-2000 and 2000-2050 may not be possible to list (i'm not sure)