Book Suggestions
God's Secret Agents
In God’s Secret Agents Alice Hogge tells the gripping story of the Jesuit mission to England during the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I. She captures the heroism and the humanity of the Jesuits involved, the courage of the Catholics they sought to serve. She brings alive the political and social world in which the beleagued and sometimes desperate Catholic community struggled to survive.
God, Where are you?
God, Where are You? by Fr. Gerard W. Hughes SJ is a moving account of one man’s search for God. Gerry Hughes retraces the different paths that this search has taken him down, in his interior life and also in his active life as a Jesuit priest. To read this book is to be challenged to look beyond any narrow sense of who God is, to discover Him in and beyond all things.
The First Jesuits
The First Jesuits by Fr. John O’Malley SJ is an exploration of the early history of the Society of Jesus. It is an inspiring account of how Ignatius and his early companions sought to ‘help souls’. O’Malley corrects the misconception that the Jesuits were primarily involved in countering the Reformation, and brings to the fore the ministry of the Spiritual Exercises and the pastoral practices that flowed from it. This is both a scholarly and very readable history.
Edmund Campion
The great English novelist Evelyn Waugh has produced here what he called a ‘perfectly true story of heroism and holiness’. With all the skill of a great storyteller he draws the reader into the drama of Edmund Campion’s short but brilliant missionary life during the troubled times of the reign of Elizabeth I.
Contemplatives in action
Frs William Barry SJ and Robert Doherty SJ explore in Contemplatives in Action those features of Jesuit Spirituality that make it distinctive. They identify a set of life-giving and creative tensions that run through Jesuit life. These they explore chapter by chapter, providing the reader with an insight into the Jesuit ‘way of proceeding’. This a challenging book that confidently affirms what it means to be a companion of Jesus and a brother of St. Ignatius in the world today.
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