Spiritual Classics and Reading

I am a constant reader. I am generally reading two or three books at the same time, and I try to make at least one of those books something religious in nature. Some of them are more recent books, but some of them are works by the Church Fathers, encyclical,s and books deemed spiritual classics - though what constitutes a "classic" varies.

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In my lifetime I've read a number of writings of Church Fathers, encyclicals, and spiritual classics. But, to be honest, I read many of them decades ago. So I have begun to reread them.

Since retiring in 2020 I have read/reread:

Church Fathers

The Epistle of Barnabas

The Epistle to Diognetus

The Didache

Letter to the Corinthians - Clement of Rome

Letter to the Ephesians - Ignatius of Antioch

Letter to the Magnesians - Ignatius of Antioch

Letter to the Trallians - Ignatius of Antioch

Letter to the Romans - Ignatius of Antioch

Letter to the Philadelphians - Ignatius of Antioch

Letter to the Smyrnians - Ignatius of Antioch

Letter to Polycarp - Ignatius of Antioch

Letter to the Philippians - Polycarp of Smyrna

The Martyrdom of Polycarp

Encyclicals

Veritatis Splendor (The Splendor of Truth) by Pope St. John Paul II

Deus Caritas Est (God is Love) by Pope Benedict XVI

Laudato Si by Pope Francis

Rerum Novarum by Pope Leo XIII

Casti Connubii by Pope Pius XI

Classics

Apologia Pro Vita Sua by St. John Henry Cardinal Newman

Heretics by G. K. Chesterton

Saint Thomas Aquinas by G. K. Chesterton

Orthodoxy by G. K. Chesterton

Introduction to the Devout Life by St. Francis de Sales

The Imitation of Christ by Thomas a Kempis

Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis

The Screwtape Letters (with Screwtape Proposes a Toast) by C. S. Lewis

The Confessions by Saint Augustine

The Soul’s Journey into God by Saint Bonaventure

The Diary of a Country Priest by Georges Bernanos

There are others that I want to read or reread. (I've bolded the ones I've never read)

Journal of a Soul -  Pope St. John XXIII

Pacem in Terris - Pope St. John XXIII

The Long Loneliness - Dorothy Day

The City of God - St. Augustine

Story of a Soul - St. Therese of Lisieux.

Crossing the Threshold of Hope - Pope St. John Paul II

Evangelium Vitae - Pope St. Jon Paul II

The Consolation of Philosophy - Boethius

Catherine of Siena - Sigrid Undset

Ah, so much more reading to do!

Pax et bonum