[In
a recent post, we mentioned some lists for Lenten reading. Read on for the last in our series.]
A list that recognizes ANY good reading as good Lenten practice.
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
by Nicholas Carr
Reveals "what is at stake in the daily habits of our wired lives: the re-constitution of our minds" (Matthew Crawford).
Acedia and Me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life
(email or call for availability)
by Kathleen Norris
Norris restores this forgotten but important concept to the modern world's vernacular.
A Prayer Journal
by Flannery O'Connor; edited by W.A. Sessions
A window into the spiritual formation of O'Connor as she struggles to work diligently, extend, charity, and write with integrity.
Kristin Lavransdatter: The Wreath (email or call for availability)
Kristin Lavransdatter: The Wife
Kristin Lavransdatter: The Cross
by Sigrid Undset; translated by Tiina Nunnally
A masterpiece of historical fiction set in medieval Norway, replete with some of the most unforgettable and full-blooded characters in literature. We (strongly) recommend reading the award-winning translation of Tiina Nunnally above all others. (Also available in a one-volume penguin edition. Email or call for availability.)
The Story of Jumping Mouse
by John Steptoe
Based on a Native American legend, Jumping Mouse is the Ladder of Divine Ascent for kids (which is just to say it's for everyone). Caldecott award winner.
The World of Silence (email or call for availability)
by Max Picard
Picard’s great prose poem, like the silence it depicts, “does not fit into the world of profit and utility; it simply is. It seems to have no other purpose; it cannot be exploited.”
The End of Suffering (email or call for availability)
by Scott Cairns
A surgically honest yet gentle portrayal of suffering's end (purpose, not cessation) and how the healing of our wounded cosmos begins with the repair of the person.
The Idiot Psalms
by Scott Cairns
In every poem, Cairns reveals his attachment to "the ten thousand things" and to their participation in the mysteries of ultimate Being.
The Diary of a Country Priest
by Georges Bernanos
A deceptively anecdotal novel that skillfully analyzes the struggles, graces, fears and dreams of a young priest working out his vocation.
The Power and the Glory
by Graham Greene
What shines through this dusty landscape and its dusty souls is not theology, per se, but theoria, a glimpse beyond the scrim of this world that somehow survives all darkness.
Father Arseny, 1893-1973: Priest, Prisoner, Spiritual Father: Being the Narratives Compiled by the Servant of God Alexander Concerning His Spiritual Father
translated by Vera Bouteneff
A narrative comprised of encounters with Father Arseny, a former art historian and priest imprisoned in the Gulag. An intimate testimony of what it means to "bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ" (Galatians 6:2).
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