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c. 397–400 · Spiritual autobiography · 13 books
The Confessions
A life recounted as praise: desire, sin, conversion, memory, creation, and rest in God.
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Prayer
The tradition treats prayer as both grace and practice: God draws the person, and the person learns to answer with the whole mind and heart.
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1265–1274 · Scholastic synthesis · 3 parts
Summa Theologiae
A disciplined inquiry into sacred doctrine, God, creation, human action, Christ, and the sacraments.
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1st century · Sacred Scripture · 24 chapters
The Gospel According to St. Luke
The third Gospel, presented here in the public-domain Challoner revision of the Douay–Rheims Bible.
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c. 1418–1427 · Spiritual instruction · 4 books
The Imitation of Christ
A compact school of humility, recollection, detachment, and intimate friendship with Christ.
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1609 · Spiritual instruction · 5 parts
Introduction to the Devout Life
Practical spiritual counsel for people pursuing holiness amid ordinary duties and relationships.
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c. 1377–1378 · Mystical theology · 4 treatises
The Dialogue of St. Catherine of Siena
A vast mystical dialogue on providence, discretion, prayer, the bridge of Christ, reform, and obedience.
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14th century · English selection 1905 · Correspondence · selected letters
Letters of Catherine Benincasa
Prayer made active in counsel to family, religious, rulers, popes, and friends across a divided Church.
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1901 · Pastoral and confraternity manual · 3 parts
The Rosary Guide for Priests and People
A Dominican manual of scriptural meditation, mental and vocal prayer, confraternity life, and practical methods of saying the Rosary.
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13th century · English selection 1914 · Spiritual theology · selected questions
On Prayer and the Contemplative Life
A Dominican selection from the Summa on religion, devotion, prayer, and the active and contemplative lives.
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14th century · English translation 1865 · Mystical autobiography
The Life of Blessed Henry Suso
A Dominican mystical life shaped by Eternal Wisdom, discipline, suffering, friendship, and spiritual instruction.
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