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Thread: Spiritual Reading
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Pancho
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What sort of spiritual reading do you do? Is it just the scriptures or is it something else? Do you have any favorite authors or favorite works? Do you set some time aside every day or is it only once in a while?
I'm following one of those plans to read the Bible (and the Catholic Catechism) in a year and I try to read the day's readings from mass. I'm also finishing St. Francis de Sales' "Introduction to the Devout Life". I'd read most of it before but I hadn't finished the last quarter of the book.
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Nenya
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Very interesting question. Because I've been rethinking a number of things over the last few years I've found the Bible very difficult - when reading it my mind fell back into its old unhelpful patterns. Even the way the text is arranged in most Bibles, with those double columns to a page, currently makes my brain scramble. So I bought myself a Message study Bible, which has the text like a conventional book, and read the whole thing cover to cover. Not sure I'd call that "spiritual reading" though - I felt more driven by the need to be able to say I'd read the whole thing than gaining any spiritual insights from it. ![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif)
I currently don't really read the Bible in an organised way at all. I read authors like Richard Rohr, and Martin Laird, and am currently partway through a book by Peter Enns called "The Bible Tells Me So... Why defending Scripture has made us unable to read it" which I'm quite enjoying although it's a tad repetitive.
Nen - looking forward to reading other contributions to this discussion.
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Hilda of Whitby
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I do a lot of spiritual reading. I confess that little of it is the Bible except for the Gospels. Every so often I try to use a lectionary but usually that falls by the wayside.
Some of my favorite spiritual books are:
In the spirit of happiness / the Monks of New Skete
The ladder of the beatitudes / Jim Forest
Story of a soul / Therese of Lisieux
Dorothy Day's letters and journals
When things fall apart / Pema Chodron
Toward holy ground / Margaret Guenther
Autobiography of a yogi / Paramahansa Yogananda
Etty: the letters and diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943
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Brenda Clough
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I am fond of C.S. Lewis's apologetics.
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