February / March - 2020 Vol. 108
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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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