This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.In the austere stillness of Mount Sinai, Saint John Climacus gathered the hard-won wisdom of the desert into a single, searching vision of the spiritual life. The Ladder of Divine Ascent sets before the listener a path of thirty steps, tracing the soul’s passage from renunciation and obedience through repentance, vigilance, and the struggle against the passions, and onward to stillness, prayer, and the fullness of divine love.Ma...

For the first time in English, we present Fra. Luis de Granada’s “Libro de la Escala Espiritual”, (1562) of J. Climacus’ “Ladder of Divine Ascent.”What this particular work is and is not.What this work is:This is a translation of the “Libro de la Escala Espiritual”, with the notations and verbiage translated and commented on by Fra. L. de Granada. O.P.. This work is from his initial effort of 1551. According to the late E. Allison Peers, Fra. Luis de Granada had mad...

This edition of The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola comes complete with a Touch-or-Click Table of Contents, divided by each section.The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola, (composed from 1522-1524) are a set of Christian meditations, prayers and mental exercises, divided into four thematic 'weeks' of variable length, designed to be carried out over a period of 28 to 30 days. They were composed with the intention of helping the retreatant to discern Jesus in his lif...

Skyros Publishing is dedicated to reproducing the finest books ever written and letting readers of all ages experience a classic for the first time or revisit a past favorite.St. Catherine of Siena was a theologian and one of the two patron saints in Italy along with St. Francis of Assisi. The Dialogues of St. Catherine of Siena is still considered a must read for Christians.

The Lord Jesus chose Sr. Maria Faustina as the Apostle and "Secretary" of His Mercy, so that she could tell the world about His great message, which Sr. Faustina recorded in a diary she titled Divine Mercy in My Soul. In the Old Covenant He said to her:"I sent prophets wielding thunderbolts to My people. Today I am sending you with My mercy to the people of the whole world. I do not want to punish aching mankind, but I desire to heal it, pressing it to My Merciful Heart." (Diary, 1588)In a...

Since they were first written in 1745, Visits to the Most Blessed Sacrament and the Blessed Virgin Mary has been translated into many languages and read worldwide. This classic translation of St. Alphonsus Liguori's Visits, a faithful rendition from the original Italian into the American idiom, has now been reprinted in a new larger edition. This new printing offers exactly the same text as the previous edition, but in a larger, more readable, more durable format. It includes St. ...

Confessions is one of the most moving diaries ever recorded of a man's journey to the fountain of God's grace. Writing as a sinner, not a saint, Augustine shares his innermost thoughts and conversion experiences, and wrestles with the spiritual questions that have stirred the hearts of the thoughtful since time began. Starting with his childhood in Numidia, through his youth and early adulthood in Carthage, Rome, and Milan, readers will see Augustine as a human being, a fellow tra...

This book comes complete with a Touch-or-Click Table of Contents, divided by each section.Saint Alphonsus Maria de Liguori was an Italian Catholic bishop, spiritual writer, scholastic philosopher and theologian, and founder of the Redemptorists, an influential religious congregation. He was canonized in 1839 by Pope Gregory XVI. Pope Pius IX proclaimed him a Doctor of the Church in 1871.Alphonsus wrote 111 works on spirituality and theology. The 21,500 editions and the translations into 72 la...

This edition The Institutes, also known as Institutions, comes complete with a Touch-or-Click Table of Contents, divided by each book.Saint John Cassian (ca. 360 435), was a Christian theologian celebrated in both the Western and Eastern Churches for his mystical writings. He is known both as one of the "Scythian monks" and as one of the "Desert Fathers."John Cassian came very late into writing and only did so when a request was made by an important person or persons. His sources were the sa...

Boulding's fresh new translation of this classic captures the essence of Augustine's struggle to integrate faith and understanding as his heart seeks to rest in God. Publishers Weekly RBL Augustine's Confessions has been much translated: but it is no exaggeration to say that Sister Maria Boulding's version is of different level of excellence from practically anything else on the market. Rowan Williams Archbishop of Canterbury.

True Devotion to Mary is a book by Saint Louis de Montfort on the Roman Catholic theme of devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary. The book attracted attention in the 20th century when in an address to the Montfortian Fathers, Pope John Paul II said that reading this book had been a "decisive turning point" in his life.Pope John Paul II (who had a strong Marian devotion) was a follower of de Montfort and singled him out in his Redemptoris Mater encyclical as a key example of Marian ...

This meditation on the spiritual life that has inspired readers from Thomas More and St. Ignatius Loyola to Thomas Merton and Pope John Paul I.Only the Bible has been more influential as a source of Christian devotional reading than The Imitation of Christ. Written by the Augustinian monk Thomas à Kempis between 1420 and 1427, it contains clear instructions for renouncing wordly vanities and locating eternal truths. No book has more explicitly and movingly...