Library

For adoration or meditation

Eucharistic Adoration · Thursday Compline · Going to confession · Young people’s library · Prayer intentions

A selection of books by saints and masters of the spiritual life, to nourish adoration and meditation, arranged in four themes.

For daily meditation

Introduction to the Devout Life (Philothea) — Saint Francis de Sales
The Practice of the Love of Jesus Christ — Saint Alphonsus Liguori
The Imitation of Christ — Thomas à Kempis
The Spiritual Exercises — Saint Ignatius of Loyola
The Book of Prayer and Meditation — Louis of Granada
Treatise on Prayer and Meditation — Saint Peter of Alcantara
Meditations for All the Sundays of the Year — Saint John Baptist de La Salle
Treatise on the Love of God — Saint Francis de Sales

For Eucharistic adoration

Visits to the Blessed Sacrament and to the Blessed Virgin — Saint Alphonsus Liguori · Read the book (PDF, in French)
The Divine Eucharist — Saint Peter Julian Eymard
What the Heart of Jesus Does and Says in the Tabernacle — Saint Manuel González García
The Soul of the Apostolate — Dom Jean-Baptiste Chautard
Meditations on the Passion of Jesus Christ — Saint Alphonsus Liguori

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To contemplate the life of Jesus Christ

The Life of Jesus Christ — Ludolph of Saxony
Meditations on the Life of Christ — Pseudo-Bonaventure
The Book of Her Life — Saint Teresa of Jesus
The Book of Visions and Instructions — Saint Angela of Foligno
The Dialogue — Saint Catherine of Siena
Christ, the Life of the Soul — Blessed Columba Marmion
Christ in His Mysteries — Blessed Columba Marmion

To deepen the interior life

The Way of Perfection — Saint Teresa of Avila
The Interior Castle — Saint Teresa of Avila
The Ascent of Mount Carmel — Saint John of the Cross
Story of a Soul — Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus
The Simplicity of the Interior Life — Dom François de Sales Pollien
Abandonment to Divine Providence — Jean-Pierre de Caussade
Face to Face with God — Dom Augustin Guillerand
The Ways of Mental Prayer — Dom Vital Lehodey

Vademecum · Spiritual Exercises

Prayer booklet

Morning and evening prayers, Compline, how to meditate, visits to the Blessed Sacrament, the Rosary, confession and examination of conscience, advice for a Christian life, discernment of spirits (in French).

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