SPIRITUAL LIBRARY BOOK LIST

Epiphany Spiritual Library Inventory List

April 2024

These titles are available to be borrowed, free of charge, in our Spiritual Library Corner in the Narthex of our Epiphany Church.

Saints Lives and Writings:

  • Saints for Young People

  • Butler’s Lives of the Saints

  • St. Francis of Assisi: Early Documents

  • St. Francis of Assisi: Reluctant Saint

  • God’s Troubadour: The Story of St. Francis of Assisi

  • Saint Augustine: Confessions

  • Saints and Heroes Speak

  • Saints for Now

  • Martyrs and Miracles: The Inspiring Lives of the Saints and Martyrs

  • My Sisters The Saints

  • The Wisdom of the Saints

  • Accidental Saints

  • St. Odilia

  • St. Clare

  • The Little Flowers of Saint Clare

  • The Little Flowers of Saint Francis

  • St. Thomas Aquinas

  • St. Anthony of Padua

  • St. Jude’s (Scholar’s Select)

  • Faustina

  • Paul

  • The Letters of Saint Paul

  • Paul the Traveller: St. Paul and His World

  • Catena Aurea (St. Thomas Aquinas)

  • Edith Stein: A Biography

  • Mother Angelica: The Remarkable Story of a Nun, Her Nerve, and a Network of Miracles

  • Mother Angelica: Her Grand Silence

  • Dorothy Day — Loaves and Fishes: The Inspiring story of the Catholic Worker Movement

  • Carly Houselander: Essential Writings

  • Beyond Silence: Life Diary Letters of Bl. Benedetta Bianchi Porro

  • The Selected Writings of Servant of God Cora Evans

  • The Quiet Companion: the Life of Peter Faber

  • Track of the Mystic: The Spirituality of Jessica Powers

  • Meet Fulton Sheen: Beloved Preacher and Teacher of the Word

Catechism Books:

  • Basics of the Faith: A Catholic Catechism

  • United States Catholic Catechism for Adults

  • A New Catechism

  • Compendium: Catechism of the Catholic Church

  • Called by name: The Effective Catechetical Leader

  • I am Bread Broken: A Spiritually for the Catechist

  • The Great Mysteries: An Essential Catechism

  • Life in Christ: A Catechism for Adult Catholics

Catholic Church/Catholicism Books:

  • Divine Renovation (Fr. James Mallon)

  • Refounding the Church

  • Be My Witness: Formation of the New Evangelization

  • Stewardship: A Disciple’s Response

  • Models of the Church

  • Beginning to Read the Fathers (of the Church)

  • Could You Come Back to the Catholic Church? (Lorene Hanley Duquin)

  • Return: How to Draw your child back to the church

  • Letter to a Suffering Church: A Bishop Speaks on the Sexual Abuse Crisis

  • Reflections from the Intersection

  • Generation to Generation: Family Process in Church and Synagogue

  • Church and Society: The Laurence J. McGinley Lectures 1988-2007

  • The Second Greatest Story Ever Told

  • Man and Woman He Created Them: A Theology of the Body

  • The Catholicity of the Church

  • Basics of the Faith: A Catholic Catechism

  • World Catholic Yearbook

  • The American Catholic Almanac

  • United States Catholic Catechism for Adults

  • Why Stay Catholic?

  • What is Catholicism?

  • What Makes Us Catholic? Eight Gifts for Life

  • Catholic and Christian

  • A Rocking Horse Catholic

  • Catholic History for Today’s Church

  • Understanding Catholicism

  • Rediscover Catholicism: A Spiritual Guide to Living with Passion and Purpose

  • Catholicism Today

  • A Map of Life: A Simple Study of the Catholic Faith

  • God: What Every Catholic Should Know

  • Rome Sweet Home: Our Journey to Catholicism

  • The Four Signs of a Dynamic Catholic (Series)

  • Salvation: What Every Catholic Should know

  • Catholic Book of the Dead

  • I am dying: Urgent Advice from your Catholic Grandpa

  • The Essential Guide to Catholic Terms

  • The Emergent Christ: Exploring the Meaning of Catholic in an Evolutionary Universe

  • The Family: A Community of Love

  • Theology for Beginners

  • A Theology of Presence: The Search for Meaning in the American Catholic Experience

  • Essentials of the Faith: A Guide to the Catholicism of the Catholic Church

  • Build with Living Stones: Franciscan Mission Charism

  • Beyond the Crossroads: Religious Life in the 21st Century

  • Don’t Chew Jesus: A Collection of Memorable Nun Stories

  • By God’s Providence: Catholic history of sister congregations

  • A Guide to Religious Ministries for Catholic Men and Women

  • Simple Priesthood (Sean Connolly)

  • Pioneer Priests and Makeshift Altars: A History of Catholicism in the Thirteen Colonies (Fr. Charles Conner)

  • The English Way: Studies in English Sanctity from Bede to Newman

  • Chance or the Dance: A Critique of Modern Secularism

  • The Conspiracy of God: The Holy Spirit in Us

  • Does God Speak to Us? What About Me? (John Catalans)

  • The Bush Still Burns: How God Speaks to Us Today

  • Sister Renee — Cabrini Sisters Book (?)

Eucharist Books:

  • Beautiful Eucharist

  • Seven Secrets of the Eucharist

  • The Eucharist for Beginners: Sacrament, Sacrifice, and Communion

  • Becoming Eucharistic People: The Hope and Promise of Parish Life

  • The Way of Mystery: The Eucharist and Moral Living

  • Eucharist: Celebrating its Rhythms in our Lives

  • This is my body, This is my blood: Miracles of the Eucharist Book 1

Jesus/Christ Books:

  • Jesus: Apocalyptic Prophet of the New Millennium

  • Lead like Jesus

  • Jesus of Nazareth

  • Jesus was a migrant

  • Jesus Joy of the Suffering

  • Jesus Christ: Before He Became Superstar

  • Walking with Jesus: Reflections of those who knew him

  • The Day Christ was Born

  • The Day Christ Died

  • Who is Christ?

  • Making Choices in Christ (Ignatian Spirituality)

  • Christ Among Us

  • Living with Christ

  • Life in Christ: A Catechism for Adult Catholics

  • The Emergent Christ: Exploring the Meaning of Catholic in an Evolutionary Universe

  • A Very Human Jesus

  • Truly Divine and Truly Human: The Story of Christ and the Seven Ecumenical Councils

  • Apologetics and the Biblical Christ

  • The Path to See like Jesus

  • Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus (Fr. John Croiset)

  • Desire of the Everlasting Hills: The World Before and After Jesus

  • Parables of the Kingdom: Jesus and the Use of Parables in the Synoptic Tradition

Mary/Rosary Books:

  • Miryam of Nazareth (Ann Johnson)

  • Miryam of Judah (Ann Johnson)

  • The Virgin Mary (Fr. Raymond)

  • True Devotion to Mary

  • 33 Days to Morning Glory: A Do it Yourself Rosary

  • The Reed of God

  • The Secret of Mary (St. Louis De Montfort)

  • The Secret Still Hidden

  • Refuting the Attack on Mary: A Defense of Marian Doctrines

  • Gifts of Grace: A Gathering of Personal Encounters with the Virgin Mary

  • Our Lady at Garabandal

  • Our Lady of Fatima (William Thomas Walsh)

  • Fatima: A Message More Urgent than Ever

  • The Rosary: The Great Weapon of the 21st Century

Women Books:

  • Women in the New Testament

  • Women in the Old Testament (Nowell)

  • Women and Religion in Medieval and Renaissance Italy

  • Woman’s Sublime Call

  • Sister to Sister: A Spiritual Formation Resource for Women Based on the Women of Scripture

  • The Authority of Women in the Catholic Church

  • Women and the Word (Sandra M. Schneiders)

  • Women of the Word (Mary Lou Sleevi)

  • Don’t Chew Jesus: A Collection of Memorable Nun Stories

  • The Hand of God: A Journey from Death to Life by the Abortion Doctor who changed his mind

Immigrant Books:

  • The Word of God and Latino Catholics

  • A Country for All: An Immigrant Manifesto

  • Jesus was a Migrant

LBGTQ Books:

  • God and the Gay Christian

  • Building a Bridge (Fr. James Martin)

Young People Books:

  • The Catholic Teen Bible

  • Saints for Young People for Every Day of the Year

  • The Mass Explained to Children

  • Ignite: The Secret to Engaging Young Adults in the Church

  • Helping Adolescents Grow Up in Christ

  • Almost Home: Helping Kids Move from Homelessness to Hope

  • Their Name is Today: Reclaiming Childhood in a Hostile World

Healing/Faith Books:

  • Healing: Bringing the Gift of God’s Mercy to the World

  • Our Healing God-With-Us

  • Unseen Hands and Unknown Hearts: A Miracle of Healing Created through prayer

  • The Purpose of Christmas

  • The Gift of Peace

  • Lazarus is Dead: A Novel

  • The 5 People You Meet in Heaven

  • One Minute Wisdom

  • Go to Heaven

  • The Spirit in my Life

  • Constant Hope: Reflections and Meditations to Strengthen the Spirit

  • Unprofitable Servants: Conferences in Humility

  • The Unbearable Wholeness of Being: God, Evolution, and the Power of Love

  • Spiritualities of the Heart

  • A Severe Mercy: A Story of Faith, Tragedy, and Triumph

  • T.S. Elliot: The Waste Land and other Poems

  • Grace Notes: Leading an Upside Down World

  • Art Needs No Justification

  • Bread and Wine: Readings for Lent and Easter

  • Symbols of Inner Truth: Uncovering the Spiritual Meaning of Experience

  • The God who fell from heaven: the hour of the unexpected

  • What does it mean to be Chosen? (The Chosen)

  • Resurrected: The Shroud’s message 2000 years later

  • Quest for the Living God

  • My brother’s witness: Msgr. Aloysius Schwartz

  • The Power of Letting Go

  • Seeing with the Heart: A Guide Navigating Life’s Adventures

  • Made for More

  • The Splendor of the Truth

  • Well-Spring: A book of Spiritual Exercises

  • Faith and Certitude

  • A God Within

  • Night (Elie Wiesel)

  • Fire and Light: Learning to Receive the Gift of God

  • Growing with Purpose: Connecting with God Everyday

  • Biblical Meditations for Advent and the Christmas Season

  • Little Christmas (Vito Gentile)

  • River of Fire: My Spiritual Journey

  • Our World in Transition: Making Sense of a Changing World

  • Living in Joyful Hope: Advent and Christmas Meditations

  • Emmanuel God-With-Us: Reflections on the Mystery of Christmas

  • From Resurrection to Pentecost: Easter Season Meditations

  • The Paschal Mystery: Reflections for Lent and Easter

  • The Lenten Labryinth: Daily Reflections for the Journey of Lent

  • Forty Days plus three: Daily Reflections for Lent and Holy Week

  • Out of the Ordinary: Prayers, poems, and reflections for every season

  • Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation

  • Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith

  • Does God Speak to Us? What About Me?

  • Open Mind Open Heart (Thomas Keating)

  • An Enneagram Guide: A Spirituality of Love in Brokenness

  • Shelter from the Storm (Salesian Collection)

  • Waiting for our Souls to Catch Up: Reason, Ritual, and Faith in our Fallow Time

  • Mere Christianity (C.S. Lewis)

  • A Time for Love (Eugene C Kennedy)

  • Aristotle Poetics

  • Devotions upon Emerging Orations / Death’s Duel (John Donne)

  • God at Work in Times of Loss

  • How to Save Your Own Life

  • When Heart Speaks to Heart: The Journal of a Priest at Prayer

  • Be an Angel (Roma Downey)

  • Life is Messy

  • The Cup of our Life: A Guide for Spiritual Growth

  • Partners in the Divine Dance of our Three Person God

  • The Desert Pilgrim: In Route to Mysticism and Miracles

  • Every Man’s Journey: Becoming the Man God Intended

  • The Head of the Family

  • The Search Participant Guide

  • The New World of Faith

  • Care of the Soul: A Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life

  • Leading From Within: Poetry that Sustains the Courage to Lead

  • A Travel Guide to Heaven

  • God: Stories

  • Hinds’ Feet on High Places: Allegorical Journey (Hannah Hurnard)

  • Through Seasons of the Heart (John Powell)

  • The Prophet (Kahlil Gibran)

  • Forgetting Who We Are: Alzheimer’s Disease and the Love of God

  • The Gift of Years: Growing Old Gracefully

  • Along Your Desert Journey (Illumination Books)

  • You Can Change the World (Fr. James Keller)

  • You Cannot Hold Back the Dawn: Faith and Love in a New Dimension a

  • Against an Infinite Horizon: The Finger of God in Our Everyday Lives

  • Fishers of Men

  • Spirituality, Stress, and You (Thomas Rodgerson)

  • Scared Shelter: 13 Stories of Homelessness and Healing

  • Shine Your Light on Me (Salesian Collection)

Bible/Gospels/Scripture Books:

  • Holy Bible: Contemporary English Version

  • Holy Bible: New International Version (NIV)

  • The Books of the Bible: The New Testament (NIV)

  • The Story: The Bible as One Continuing Story of God and His People

  • The Biblical Torah: Reflections on the Pentateuch

  • Good News for Modern Man: The New Testament in Today’s English Version

  • The Gospel According to Matthew (Collegeville Bible Commentary)

  • The Gospel According to Mark (Collegeville Bible Commentary)

  • The Gospel According to John and the Johannine Epistles (Collegeville Bible Commentary)

  • The Acts of the Apostles (Collegeville Bible Commentary)

  • First and Second Corinthians (Collegeville Bible Commentary)

  • Isaiah (Collegeville Bible Commentary)

  • Amos, Hosea, Micah, Habakkuk (Collegeville Bible Commentary)

  • The Gospel of Matthew (Augustine Institute)

  • The Gospel of Mark (Ignatius Catholic Study Bible)

  • The Gospel of John (The New Daily Study Bible)

  • The Gospel of Luke (The New Daily Study Bible)

  • The Gospel of Matthew (The New Daily Study Bible)

  • Gospel of Mark (The New Daily Study Bible)

  • Job: The Man of Heroic Endurance

  • Elijah: The Man of Heroism and Humility

  • Moses (Great Lives from God’s Word)

  • La Palabras De Dios

  • The Catholic Teen Bible

  • Cultural Tools for Interpreting the Good News

  • Parables of the Kingdom

  • Glossary of Theological Terms

  • Let the Scriptures Speak: Reflections on the Sunday Readings

  • Little Rock Scripture Study

  • Responses to 101 Questions on the Psalms and Other Writings

  • The Salvation Controversy

  • God Sets You Free: New Testament

  • David: A Story of Passion and Destiny

Papal Teaching Books/Videos/Recordings:

  • Pope Francis: Untying the Knots

  • Querida Amazonia: (Pope Francis) Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation to the People of God and to all Persons of Good Will

  • Gaudiest et Exsultate: (Pope Francis) Apostolic Exhortation on the Call to Holiness

  • The Word of the Lord: Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation of the Holy Father Benedict XVI

  • Amoris Laetitia (Padre Francisco)

  • Pope Francis: A Man of His Word (DVD)

  • Abba Pater: The First Music Recording to Embody the Voice of Pope John Paul ll

  • Pilgrimage: My Search for the Real Pope Francis

  • Lent and Easter: Wisdom from Pope John Paul II

  • The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (?)

  • The Twilight of American Culture (?)

Prayer Books:

  • Examen Prayer: Ignatian Wisdom for our lives today

  • Hearts on Fire: Praying with Jesuits

  • Redeeming the Time

  • The Lord’s Prayer

  • Mission 2000: Praying Scripture in a Contemporary way

  • Pray, Decide, and Don’t Worry

  • One Hundred Cranes: Praying with the chorus of creation

  • Prayers for all Occasions

  • The World of Prayer

  • Just because: Prayer poems to delight the heart

  • Damiano di Molokai: Prayer Vigil

  • The Golden Book of Prayers

  • Psalms for Praying: An Invitation to Wholeness

  • When the Well Runs Dry: Prayer Beyond the Beginnings

  • Prayer is a Hunger

Mass/Liturgy Books:

  • Celebrating Good Liturgy: A Guide to the Ministries of the Mass

  • The Liturgical Year

  • History of the Liturgy

  • Handbook of the Mass (Paulist Press)

  • The Mass Explained to Children

  • Bread of Life: Homilies by Fr. Robinson

  • General Instruction of the Roman Missal: Liturgy Documentary Series

  • Misal 2022: Para todos los Domingo’s y fiestas del and (Buena Prensa)

Religious Places/Pilgrimages Books:

  • Ephesus

  • City as Playground

  • The Hermitage Picture Gallery

  • The Basilica of St. Mark

  • Vatican City

  • Raphael (Luciano Berti)