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Books
You may be looking for a ‘good read’ to give you some direction in your own spiritual journey.
Here, we suggest good books for just that purpose!
These include fiction and non-fiction, and have been chosen for their quality, depth and perspective.

Suggested Reading
 
1. Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time - Marcus Borg (See our        'Wise Guide' by Graeme Barry for your reading circle!)
2. 15 Days of Prayer with Thomas Merton - Andre Gozier OSB
3. An 8 Day Ignatian Retreat Retreat - Thomas P Rausch SJ
4. A Retreat with Desert Mystics: Thirsting for the Reign of God -
Linus Mundy
5. A Retreat with Catherine of Siena: Living the Truth in Love -
Elizabeth A Dreyer
6. Praying with Julian of Norwich - Gloria Durka
7. Jesus Before Christianity - Albert Nolan
8. Jesus Today - Albert Nolan (See our 'Wise Guide' for your reading circle! - Coming Soon)
 
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Reader of the month

A Long Retreat: In Search of a Religious Life "This gorgeously written memoir tells the story of one man’s search for his religious calling—a search that led him to the Dominican Republic and Central Europe, to Moscow and the South Bronx, and finally into married life with a woman whose search for God coincided with his own.

In 1990 Andrew Krivak—poet, yacht rigger, ocean lifeguard, student of the classics—entered the Society of Jesus. The heart of Jesuit training is the Long Retreat, thirty days of silence and prayer in which the Jesuit novice reflects on the Gospels and tests his desire for the priesthood.
 
For Krivak, eight years of Jesuit formation turned out to be a long retreat in its own right, as he tested all his desires—for poetry, for travel, for independence, for love—against the pledge to do all “for the greater glory of God.” And in this deeply affecting book the long retreat becomes a pattern for our own spiritual lives, enabling us to embrace our desire for solitude and perspective in our own circumstances, the way Krivak has in his new life as a husband, father, and writer." (Excerpt of a Review from MacMillan)