Helpful Reading
Carmelite Sisters reading at their convent library.
BOOKS
Discernment
Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation
Parker J. Palmer, Jossey-Bass, 2000. ISBN 078947350
Discovering Your Personal Vocation: The Search Formeaning the Spiritual Exercises
Herbert Alphonso, Paulist Press, 2001. ISBN 0809140446
Weeds Among the Wheat: Discernment, Where Prayer & Action Meet
Thomas Green, Ave Maria Press, Notre Dame, Ind. 1984. ISBN 0877933189 0877933197
Discernment: The Art of Choosing Well
Pierre Wolf, Triumph Books, Ligori, MO. 1993. ISBN 0800730380 0892434856
Seeking Jesus in Contemplation and Discernment
Robert Faricy, Michael Glazier Books, 1987. ISBN 0870611429
Authenticity: A Biblical Theology of Discernment
Thomas Dubay, Ignatius, San Francisco 1997 ISBN 089870619X
Discernment of Priesthood and Religious Life
Could You Ever Become a Catholic Priest?
Christopher J. Duquin and Lorene Hanley Duquin, 1998. ISBN 0818908165
On the Way to Priesthood: A Journal and Reflection Guide for Men Discerning the Priesthood. Sr. Kathleen Bryant, RSC, National Conference of Diocesan Vocations (NCDVD), IL. 2000.
En Camino al Sacerdocio: Diario y Guia de Refecxion para Hombres que Estan Discerniendo el Sacerdocio. Sr. Kathleen Bryant, RSC,National Conference of Diocesan Vocations (NCDVD), IL. 2000.
Vocations Anonymous: A handbook for adults discerning priesthood and religious life
Sr. Kathleen Bryant, RSC, National Coalition for Church Vocations, IL, 1997
A Guide to Religious Ministries for Catholic Men and Women
Catholic News Publishing Company, NY, 2003. ISBN 1-893275-22-1
Spirituality
Thirsty for God: Brief History of Christian Spirituality
Bradley P. Holt, Augsburg, 1993. ISBN 0806626402
Wild at Heart: Discovering the Secret of a Man’s Soul
John Eldredge, Thomas Nelson Pub., 2001. ISBN 0785268839
The Holy Longing
Ronald Rolheiser, Doubleday, NY. 1999. ISBN 03855494181
Befriending Our Desires
Philip Sheldrake, Darton, Longman & Todd, 2002. ISBN 0232524467
Prayer
Armchair Mystic
Mark Thibodeaux, St. Anthony Press, 2001. ISBN 0867164301
The Fire Within: St. Teresa, St. John of the Cross, and the Gospel, on Prayer
Ignatius Press, 1989. ISBN 0898702631
Opening to God: A Guide to Prayer
Thomas Green, S.J., Ave Maria Press, Notre Dame, Ind., 1977. ISBN 0877931356, 0877931364
Darkness in the Marketplace: The Christian at Prayer in the World
Thomas Green, S.J., Ave Maria Press, Notre Dame, Ind., 1981. ISBN 0877932301 0877932298
When the Well Runs Dry
Thomas Green, S.J., Ave Maria Press, Notre Dame, Ind., 1979. ISBN 087793181X, 0877931828
Abba’s Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging
Brennan Manning, Navpress, 1994. ISBN 0891098267
Prayer and Common Sense
Thomas Green, S.J., Ave Maria Press, Notre Dame, Ind., 1995. ISBN 0877935513
The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Meditation on Fathers, Brothers, and Sons
Henri Nouwen, Doubleday, NY. 1992. ISBN 0385418671
The Practice of the Presence of God
Brother Lawrence; edited and paraphrased by Donald E. Demaray, Alba House, NY. 1997.
ISBN 0818907703
The Wounded Healer
Henri Nouwen, Doubleday, Garden City, NY. 1972. ISBN 0385028563
Priestly Spirituality
Gift and Mystery: On The Fiftieth Anniversary of my Priestly Ordination
Pope John Paul II, Doubleday, Garden City, NY. 1996. ISBN 0385489633
Letters to My Brother Priests
Pope John Paul II, James P. Socias, editor, Midwest Theological Forum,Scepter Publishers, 1994. ISBN 0933932618
Diary of a Country Priest
Georges Bernanos, Carrol & Graf, 2002. ISBN 0786709618
Quickening the Fire in Our Midst: The Challenge of Diocesan Priestly Spirituality
George Aschenbrenner, Jesuit Way, Chicago. 2002. ISBN 0829419489
Priests for the Third Millennium
Timothy M. Dolan, Our Sunday Visitor, Huntinton, IN., 2000. ISBN 0879733195
Priestly Prayer: Reflections on Prayer in the Life of the Priest
Rev. Mark O’Keefe, Abbey Press, St.Meinrad, IN. 2002. ISBN 0870293656
Priestly Virtues: Reflections on the Moral Virtues in the Life of the Priest
Rev. Mark O’Keefe, Abbey Press, St.Meinrad, IN. 2000. ISNB 0870293508
Living our Priesthood Today
Pennington, Basil, OCSO and Arico, Carl, Our Sunday Visitor, Huntington, IN, 1987.
ISBN 0879735139
Extraordinary Lives – Thirty-four Priests Tell Their Stories
Friedl, Francis P. and Reynolds, Rex, editors, Ave Maria Press, Notre Dame IN, 1998.
ISBN 0877936560
Spiritual Renewal of the American Priesthood
NCCB 1972. Secretariat for Priestly Life and Ministry
Priests for a New Millennium
USCC, Washington, D.C., 2000. ISBN 1574553674
Priesthood in the Modern World
Sheed & Weed, Franklin, WI. 1997. ISBN 0818907703
Monastic Life
Voices of Silence – The Lives of the Trappists Today
Bianco, Frank, Bantam Doubleday, Dell, NY. 1992. ISBN 0385424302
The Cloister Walk
Norris, Kathleen, Riverhead Books, NY. 1996. ISBN 1573220280
Celibacy and the Virtue of Chastity
Restless Heart: Understanding Loneliness
Ron Rolheiser , Hodder & Stoughton, 2002. ISBN 0340862378
Courage to Be Chaste
Benedict Groeschel 1985. ISBN 0809127059
Virginity: A Positive Approach to Celibacy for the Sake of the Kingdom of Heaven
Raniero Cantalamessa, Charles Serignat, Alba 1995. ISBN 0818907452