Anything authored by C.S. Lewis - perhaps most famous for his Chronicles of Narnia - is a treat to read because of his elite ability to communicate through writing. Mere Christianity shares...
Lenten Suggested Reading List
We begin each Lent with the same goal, Each Lent, to strengthen our relationship with our Savior, Jesus Christ. Prayer, fasting, and almsgiving are vehicles ordained from the Church to help our efforts. Did you also know that she encourages us to increase our love for Christ and His Church through spiritual reading? When we reserve a few minutes each day to read a worthy spiritual text, we increase our understanding and knowledge of God, and our Lenten journey becomes less arduous and more inspired. Fellow OLPH friends have compiled a list of some of their favorite religious and spiritual books to assist your Lenten walk. Our prayer is that before Easter arrives, perhaps one or several of the books shared are now among your favorites as well.
Book Reviews
As Read & Reviewed by OLPH Parishioners
Book reviews will be published right here, each Wednesday in Lent
Lenten Book Review: Love Like a Saint: Cultivating Virtue with Holy Women by Elizabeth M. Kelly
In Love Like A Saint, Elizabeth Kelly introduces us to 7 lesser-known saints with each chapter introducing readers to a new saint that aligns with a virtue. Quotes from the saints, questions...
Lenten Book Review: Let Us Dream by Pope Francis
For many of us, the pandemic can seem a time to despair and lose hope for many of us, but Pope Francis challenges...
Lenten Book Review: Jesus Calling: Enjoying Peace in His Presence by Sarah Young
God provided the days as instruments to pace our lives in His infinite wisdom. And such inspires the...
Lenten Book Review: Unbound – Neil Lozano
If you feel spiritually burdened, Unbound is for you! This book is more than a book; in its pages lay an Unbound ministry that will help readers realize...
Lenten Book Review: He Leadeth Me by Father Walter Ciszek, SJ
Walter Ciszek was a Jesuit novice in New York. After completing his studies in Rome, he was ordained and assigned to serve in Poland. In 1939, as Germany and the Soviet Union invaded Poland, Father Ciszek snuck...
Lenten Reading List
From Fellow OLPH Friends
From the Shelf of Bette McKown
- Wondrous Encounters: Scripture for Lent, by Fr. Richard Rohr
- He Leadeth Me, by Fr. Walter J. Cizek
- Bread and Wine: Readings for Lent and Easter by C.S. Lewis
From the Shelf of Joe Skora
- He Leadeth Me by Fr. Walter Ciszek.
- Unbound by Neal Lozano
- Searching for and Maintaining Peace by Fr. Jacques Philippe
- Thirsting for Prayer by Fr. Jacques Philippe
- Interior Freedom by Fr. Jacques Philippe
From the Shelf of Christopher Russell
- Searching for and Maintaining Peace by Fr. Jacques Philippe
- Jesus Calling by Sarah Young
From the Shelf of Zack Robinson
- Searching for and Maintaining Peace by Fr. Jacques Philippe
- Time for God by Fr. Jacques Philippe
- Imitation of Christ by Thomas a Kempis
- Interior Freedom by Fr. Jacques Philippe
- In the School of the Holy Spirit by Fr. Jacques Philippe
- He Leadeth Me by Walter Ciszek
- Unbound by Neal Lozano
- Fides et Ratio by John Paul II
- The Spirit of the Liturgy by Romano Guardini
- The Abolition of Man by C.S. Lewis
- Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
- Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton
From the Shelf of Mary Brown
- The Practice and Presence of God by Brother Lawrence
- The Long Loneliness by Dorothy Day
- Let Us Dream by Pope Francis
From the Shelf of Jennifer Schuberth
- Spiritual Freedom God’s Life-Changing Gift by Father Dave Pivonka.
- Love Like a Saint Cultivating Virtue with Holy Women by Elizabeth M. Kelly
- The Power of the Sacraments by Sister Briege McKenna
- To Be Like Jesus Inspiration from the Gospel of Luke by Sister Ann Shields
- What Does God Want? by Father Michael Scanlan
- Into the Deep, Finding Peace Through Prayer by Dan Burke
- Journey to God by Dan Burke and Fr. John Bartunek
From the Shelf of Jack Baronas
- The Power of Silence: Against the Dictatorship of Noise by Cardinal Robert Sarah
- Searching for and Maintaining Peace by Fr. Jacques Philippe
From the Shelf of Lisa Sliker
- When God and Cancer Meet by Lynn Eib
- Time for God by Fr. Jacques Philippe
- Becoming a Vessel God Can Use by Donna Partow