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Some
Spiritual Reading Resources for
the Forty Days of Lent
Surrender
to
God: An orientation to Lent, by John
Henry Newman
The
Spiritual
Meaning of
Fasting,
by Carlos
Alonso Vargas
Focus
for
Fasting: Pursuing our higher calling to
serve and worship Christ, by Jerry
Munk
Fasting
and
Hungering for Righteousness: A
selection of readings for Lent from the
early fathers
Discipleship:
Take
Up Your Cross and Follow Me, by
Jeanne Kun
The
Readiness
to Change, by Dietrich von
Hildebrand
The Holy Spirit Reveals
the Merciful Father, by
Raniero Cantalamessa
God
Calls Sinners to Make Them Saints: Simon
Peter's Story, by Jeanne Kun
Whose Side
Are You On Witnesses of the Passion, by
Carlos Mantica
The Prodigal Son
by Rembrandt - Master Painter and
Storyteller
The
Great
Downfall, by Steve Clark
A
Mirror to see Inside Ourselves, by
Gregory the Great (540-604 AD)
The
Mountain
of Your Sins Will Never be too High,
by Cyril of Jerusalem (349-386 AD)
Why
Does
God Allow Temptation? by Maximus the
Confessor (580-662 AD)
Dead
to Sin, by John Chrysostom (349-407
AD)
Conquering
Ourselves and Overcoming the Evil One,
wisdom from early fathers
Walking in
the Light, by Gregory of Nyssa
The Ladder of
Divine Ascent: spiritual
wisdom from John Climacus
Christ
Calls
Us Deeper Still by John Henry
Newman
It's
Not
About You! by Bob Tedesco
Pursuing
Holiness
in an Unholy World, a strategy for winning, by Tom
Caballes
He
Must
Increase: Finding Our Identity in Jesus
Christ, by Jan Munk
Purity
of
Heart Is to Will One Thing, by Soren
Kierkegaard
True
Holiness, by Bruce Yocum
Manna
and Mammon: A battlefield on which the Lord
challenges us to show our mettle, by
Daniel Propson
Repentance,
Forgiveness,
Heaven, and Hell: quotes from C.S.
Lewis
There
Are
No Ordinary People, by C.S. Lewis
Growing
Downward
to Grow Up: The Life of Repentance, by
J.I. Packer
The
Danger of I Would Never Do That, by
Sam Williamson
No
Fig
Leaves, Please: Confession before
Repentance, by Sam Williamson
Repentance
After
Confession: Filling the Emptiness, by
Sam Williamson
The
Fall
and Rise of David, by Patrick Henry
Reardon
Exiled
from
Eden, by Jeanne Kun
Jesus:
A
Portrait of Obedience, by Jeanne
Kun
Christ's
Humility
and Victory by Steve Clark
The
Obedient
Son:the humility of the Son of
the King, by Steve Clark
The
Redeemer
Who Died, by Steve Clark
The
Cross
- the One True Glorification of God,
by Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI
The
Cross
of Christ - the Measure of the World,
by John Henry Newman
Emptied
for
Our Sake, by Bernard of Clairvaux
Worship
at
the Cross, by Charles Simpson
God
Has Reigned from a Tree: Meditations
on the Cross of Jesus Christ
Ecce
Homo! - Behold the Man!, by
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
He
Bore Our Pride In His Body on the Cross,
by Raniero Cantalamessa
What
Happened
on the Cross, by the early church
fathers
Salt
and Light: Our Vocation to Holiness, by
Donald Bloesch
Why
the
Church Needs Saints, by W.E. Sangster
On
Saints
and Saintliness, by John Henry Newman
The
Agony
in the Garden: Love's Surrender, by
Jeanne Kun
Confessions:
Excerpts from Augustine of Hippo's
autobiographical book (354-430 AD)
My
Confession, by St. Patrick of Ireland
(389-461 AD)
Your
Word
Beat upon My Heart: from the
Confessions of Augustine of Hippo
Saints
or
Sinners? by Jerry Bridges
The
Discipline of Confession, by Richard
Foster
A
Spiritual Journey of Poems for Lent, by Jeanne Kun
Holy,
Holy,
Holy: Isaiah's Call and Mission - and
Ours by Tom Mangan
Sloth
the deadly vice of our present age, by
Peter Kreeft
The
Lavish
Love of the Prodigal Father:
reflection by Don Schwager
Countering
Vice
with Virtue: Part I Faith and Virtue,
by Don Schwager
Attaining
True
Greatness - Humility versus Pride, by
Don Schwager
Prayer
Shaped
by the Word of God: hungering for
God's word, by Don Schwager
With
Jesus in the Wilderness for Forty Days,
by Don Schwager
The
Ten Plagues:Spiritual Lessons for us
today, by Don Schwager
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