Books about Prayer
Armchair Mystic, by Mark E. Thibodeaux, S.J.
God, I Have Issues: 50 Ways to Pray No Matter How you Feel, by Mark E. Thibodeaux, S.J.
God's Voice Within by Mark E. Thibodeaux, S.J. (All of Fr. Thibodeaux's books are excellent!)
Paying Attention to God: Discernment in Prayer, by William A Barry, S.J.
God’s Passionate Desire and Our Response, by William A Barry, S.J.
Prayer Is Love, by Edward Carter, S.J.
Experiencing God’s Tremendous Love: Entering Into Relational Prayer, by Maureen Conroy, R.S.M.
Song of the Bird, by Anthony DeMello, S.J.
Courage to Pray, by Anthony Bloom and Georges Lefebvre
Beginning Contemplative Prayer: Out of Chaos, Into Quiet, by Sr. Kathryn J.Hermes
Prayer for Beginners, by Peter Kreeft
True Prayer: An Invitation to Christian Spirituality, by Kenneth Leech
In Silence: Why We Pray, by Donald Spoto
Praying the Scriptures, by Demetrius Dumm, O.S.B.
New Seeds of Contemplation, by Thomas Merton
Contemplative Prayer, by Thomas Merton
Contemplation in a World of Action, by Thomas Merton
No Man is an Island, by Thomas Merton
The Wisdom of the Desert: Sayings from the Desert Fathers of the Fourth Century, translated by Thomas Merton
Love and Living, by Thomas Merton, edited by Naomi Burton Stone and Br. Patrick Hart. (This is a series of essays written by Merton and compiled posthumously.)
Dialogues with Silence: Prayers and Drawings, by Thomas Merton, edited by Jonathan Montaldo
Journey to the Heart: Christian Contemplation through the Ages, by Kim Nataraja, editor
Franciscan Prayer, by Ilia Delio, O.S.F.
Too Deep for Words: Rediscovering Lectio Divina, by Thelma Hall, r.c.
How to Pray: A Practical Guide, by David Torkington
The Practice of the Presence of God by Brother Lawrence
Prayer, by Hans Urs von Balthasar. Ignatius Press, 1986 (originally published in 1956)
Grief: Here is an excellent book on the topic of grief. I have given it to many people when they suffered a loss.
A Grace Disguised: How the Soul Grows through Loss by Jeffrey L. Sittser.
God, I Have Issues: 50 Ways to Pray No Matter How you Feel, by Mark E. Thibodeaux, S.J.
God's Voice Within by Mark E. Thibodeaux, S.J. (All of Fr. Thibodeaux's books are excellent!)
Paying Attention to God: Discernment in Prayer, by William A Barry, S.J.
God’s Passionate Desire and Our Response, by William A Barry, S.J.
Prayer Is Love, by Edward Carter, S.J.
Experiencing God’s Tremendous Love: Entering Into Relational Prayer, by Maureen Conroy, R.S.M.
Song of the Bird, by Anthony DeMello, S.J.
Courage to Pray, by Anthony Bloom and Georges Lefebvre
Beginning Contemplative Prayer: Out of Chaos, Into Quiet, by Sr. Kathryn J.Hermes
Prayer for Beginners, by Peter Kreeft
True Prayer: An Invitation to Christian Spirituality, by Kenneth Leech
In Silence: Why We Pray, by Donald Spoto
Praying the Scriptures, by Demetrius Dumm, O.S.B.
New Seeds of Contemplation, by Thomas Merton
Contemplative Prayer, by Thomas Merton
Contemplation in a World of Action, by Thomas Merton
No Man is an Island, by Thomas Merton
The Wisdom of the Desert: Sayings from the Desert Fathers of the Fourth Century, translated by Thomas Merton
Love and Living, by Thomas Merton, edited by Naomi Burton Stone and Br. Patrick Hart. (This is a series of essays written by Merton and compiled posthumously.)
Dialogues with Silence: Prayers and Drawings, by Thomas Merton, edited by Jonathan Montaldo
Journey to the Heart: Christian Contemplation through the Ages, by Kim Nataraja, editor
Franciscan Prayer, by Ilia Delio, O.S.F.
Too Deep for Words: Rediscovering Lectio Divina, by Thelma Hall, r.c.
How to Pray: A Practical Guide, by David Torkington
The Practice of the Presence of God by Brother Lawrence
Prayer, by Hans Urs von Balthasar. Ignatius Press, 1986 (originally published in 1956)
Grief: Here is an excellent book on the topic of grief. I have given it to many people when they suffered a loss.
A Grace Disguised: How the Soul Grows through Loss by Jeffrey L. Sittser.