Good Friday afternoon, friends!

Today is the feast day of St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, a Carmelite nun, born Edith Stein.

I’m sending you a write-up from Hannah Hay. She set out to write a book review on one of the books available here at the Pastoral Centre, and it turned into a testimony of her own personal journey to becoming a member of the Discalced Carmelite Secular Order! An inspiring story … a must-read!

2019 Reading Challenge August 2019

A Book by a Catholic Novelist:

• The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
• Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waug
• Memento Mori by Muriel Spark
• Silence by Shusaku Endo
• Love in the Ruins by Walker Percy
• Diary of a Country Priest by George Bernanos
• Lord of the World by Robert Hugh Benson
• Gunnar’s Daughter by Sigrid Undset
• Kristen Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset

A Book or Encyclical by a Pope:

• Laudato Si by Pope Francis
• Veratatis Splendor by Pope St. John Paul II
• Jesus of Nazareth by Pope Benedict XVI

A Book by Scott Hahn:

• Angels and Saints
• The Lamb’s Supper
• Rome Sweet Home

A Book by a Catholic Woman:

• The Reed of God by Caryll Houselander
• Essential Writings by Edith Stein
• The Privilege of Being a Woman by Alice von Hildebrand
• Revelations of Divine Love by Lady Julian of Norwich