The Bishop’s Reading List

A well read Christian is a great gift to the Church and a well read Priest is a great gift to Christians. The books that are listed below are a mixture of what is beneficial to all Christians and those that are especially helpful to priests (and other members of the clergy).

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The Bible inclusive of the Deuterocanon

The Imitation of Christ by Thomas À Kempis

On the Incarnation by St Athanasius

Ecclesiastical History by Eusebius

City of God by St Augustine
Confessions by St Augustine

The Complete Works of St Francis of Assisi

The Magnificat by St Bernard of Clairvaux
Sermons of the Song of Songs by St Bernard of Clairvaux

Listen, O Daughter by St John of Avila

The Golden Epistle by William of St Thierry
The Meditations of William of St Thierry

Wisdom of the Desert by James O Hannay

Wisdom of the Desert ed by Thomas Merton
News Seeds of Contemplation by Thomas Merton

Pastoral Care by St Gregory the Great
Commentaries on Job by St Gregory the Great

A Key to the Doctrine of the Eucharist by Dom Anscar Vonier, OSB

The Priest is Not His Own by Abp Fulton J Sheen

Christ the Ideal of the Priest by Abbot D Columba Marmion, OSB
Christ the Ideal of the Monk by Abbot D Columba Marmion, OSB
Christ the Life of the Soul by Abbot D Columba Marmion, OSB
Christ in His Mysteries by Abbot D Columba Marmion, OSB
Suffering with Christ by Abbot D Columba Marmion, OSB

Spirituality a Brief History by Philip Sheldrake

A Christian Theology of Place by John Inge

The Way of a Pilgrim by Anonymous trans RM French
Diary of a Pilgrimage by Egeria trans George E Gingras

God’s Battalions by Rodney Stark

The Stripping of the Altars by Eamon Duffy

Against the Protestant Gnostics by Philip Lee