How to Profit from Good Books and Avoid Bad Ones
We cannot always have access to a spiritual Father for counsel in our actions, and particularly in our doubts.
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Editor’s note: to celebrate today’s feast, we publish an excerpt from “On Spiritual Reading” by the saint. To a spiritual life the reading of holy books is perhaps not less useful than mental prayer. St. Bernard says reading instructs us at once in prayer, and in the practice of virtue. Hence he concluded that spiritual reading and prayer are the arms by which hell is conquered and paradise…
