/lit/ - Literature

>>10155537
The improvement and virtue of the person comes from a life of self-giving. Love and charity expressed in self-sacrifice to all things(willing the good of the other without self-interest). Self-interest and appeasement of the will leads you to be slave to your desires. The search to fulfill desires - whether to want or to escape things - is insatiable and leads to greater and greater sensitivity in pursuing it. Only through dedicating ourselves to love do we come into rational control of our desires and thus master ourselves and leave the world a better place in the process.

Do not give up hope at failures nor attempt to change all at once as this is truly difficult. However it is a battle you are always winning, provided you continue to try.

If there is anything I can do to expand or assist you with this, please tell me so I may assist.

>>10112704
Then you don't people then. Especially those who don't have many outlets for this.

>>10112715
Right, that needs to be examined, hence my last comment about it >>10112689

>>9880032
Catholic General's Recommended Books

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>GENERAL

The Bible (Ignatius Study Bible Recommended)
The catechism of your denomination

>accepted English versions of Bible

NABRE
Douay Rheims
RSV

>THEOLOGY

>novice

Introduction to Christianity by Joseph Ratzinger
The Last Superstition by Edward Feser
The Everlasting Man by G.K. Chesterton
Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton
Mere Christianity
CATHOLICISM by Robert Barron
The Orthodox Way by Kallistos Ware
Outlines of Moral Theology by Francis J. Connell

>intermediate

Scholastic Metaphysics by Edward Feser
God: His Existence and His Nature by Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange
Natural Theology by Bernard Boedder
The Spirit of Medieval Philosophy by Etienne Gilson
Against Heresies
City of God
Christianity for Modern Pagans
The Mystical Theology of the Eastern Church

>advanced

Apologia Pro Vita Sua
Summa Contra Gentiles
Summa Theologiae
On the Incarnation
The Didache
Divine Names by Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite

>SPIRITUAL LIFE

>novice

The Introduction to the Devout Life by St. Francis de Sales
Story of a Soul by St. Therese
The Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton
Orthodoxy and the Religion of the Future by Fr Seraphim Rose
Nihilism - Fr Seraphim Rose

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