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Recommended Reading Books
Name: Father Elijah: An Apocalypse
Publisher: Ignatius Press
Author: Michael D O’Brien
Michael D. O'Brien is a Roman Catholic author, artist, and frequent essayist and lecturer on faith and culture, living in Canada.
Michael O'Brien is best known for his series of apocalyptic novels collectively entitled Children of the Last Days. The best-selling first novel in the series, Father Elijah: An Apocalypse tells the story of a Jewish Holocaust survivor named David Schäfer who converts to Catholicism, becomes a Carmelite priest, and takes the name Father Elijah. The novel includes depictions of a perfect for the Congregation of the Faith and a Pope, who resemble Cardinal Ratzinger and Pope John Paul II. The fictional pope tasks Father Elijah with a secret mission: to confront the Antichrist, bring him to repentance, and thus postpone the Great Tribulation. One of the Antichrist's intrigues involves the discovery of Aristotle's lost work On Justice.
This is a great book recommended by Cardinal Pell & Anita Parker is also currently reading (and enjoying) this book!
Name: Blessed are the bored in spirit
Publisher: Servant Books
Author: Mark Hart
How seriously do you take your faith? No matter how seriously you
do, this quick read will be a boost to your spiritual life, allowing you to take spiritual stock of your life so that you can make adjustments and continue to grow, to continue to convert.
No matter where you are in your faith, Hart brings to life struggles at every level and how God works through them and how we are called to see through these struggles to a faith that is alive, vibrant, and fulfilling.
The strength of the book is that it is so readable. To every Catholic who wallows in their own mediocrity of faith because they
"don't understand" have run out of excuses with this book. There is more than a confession of a man who has fallen and returned to grace more times then he can count. This is a challenge to all Catholics.
A choice that is offered. It isn't offered in a "holier then thou" attitude, either. Hart puts himself at the receiving end of every accusation of mediocrity.
Rather than stand on the sidelines and accuse others, Hart puts himself in the middle of the game. This is strength of the book. It judges no one, yet at the same time the reader is left with a soul that is exposed and is challenged to expose their own. Hart leads through example. When he speaks of suffering, he speaks of his own. When he speaks of pride, he speaks of his own. He is an author after the heart of Paul.