Author: Father Salvador
Author: Father Salvador
Below are the books published by some members of the Legionaries of Christ during the second half of 2024.
Author: Father José Antonio Alonso, LC
Title: When You Pray, Say: “Father”: A Word That Tastes of More Love
About: The book covers a broad and diverse range of topics related to prayer
Where to buy: Amazon
Author: Father Gonzalo Monzón, LC
Title: Pilgrim of Hope in the Holy Land
About: This volume aims to promote the restoration of a climate of hope and trust during a period marked by uncertainty and confusion. It seeks not only to inspire individuals but also to serve as a resource for study groups, parishes, and pilgrims during the Jubilee period. Additionally, the text can serve as a beacon of light for many who find themselves in situations of frustration, desolation, or discouragement, focusing on the spiritual depth and practical relevance of the theological virtue of hope.
Where to buy: Amazon
Author: Father Sammer Advani, LC
Title: Ratzinger on Religious Pluralism
About: What can Christian theology claim about the place of other religions in God’s providential plan for humanity? How can it reconcile the universality of God’s saving plan and the particularity of Christ and the Church? What meaning is left to Christian existence and mission in a religiously pluralist world? As a priest-theologian, cardinal archbishop, and pope, Joseph Ratzinger reflected on these difficult questions for more than half a century and in various contexts, offering a range of profound answers dispersed across his extensive literary corpus. In Ratzinger on Religious Pluralism, Sameer Advani compiles and synthesizes these reflections and answers of the late pontiff, providing a systematic study of Ratzinger’s theology of religions that considers the scope of his broader historical, philosophical, and theological concerns.
Where to buy: St. Paul Center and Amazon
Author: H. Jordán Sixto Sánchez, LC
Title: God’s Brushstrokes Are Not Straight
About: We have grown up hearing many times about the things of God, we have been told about Christ and taken to Mass from a young age, but to you, what does God ask of you? In your personal life, what role does faith play? There is a path for everyone, and God is seeking each of us, speaking to our hearts and whispering His voice within us. This book provides a key to understanding God’s action in our lives, helping to interpret those brushstrokes of God in our hearts, challenging the individual from their freedom, and inviting them to make fundamental decisions. It presents the great artist of the universe and accompanies the protagonist of His work on the path to encounter the Creator, which begins and ends in the heart.
Where to buy: Amazon
Author: Father Alberto Carrara, LC
Title: Walking with Saint Luke. Ignatian Spiritual Exercises on Prayer and Mercy
About: The author chooses the Gospel of Saint Luke to undertake a “journey” characteristic of the spiritual exercises: activating a dynamism in which the subject is fully involved. The subtitle immediately clarifies the reason for this choice, as mercy and prayer are the two fundamental attitudes of both God and the human being in their encounter, where God always precedes and sustains. This work is not an exposition of doctrine or ideas, however noble and elevated, but a sharing of an experience—the personal encounter with Christ, who is “the Way, the Truth, and the Life”—seeking each person to support them on their journey. In the second part of the volume, Father Alberto Carrara, following the Gospel of Saint Luke, offers a guide in choosing meditations for the four weeks of the Exercises. The collected material is of great interest, and the sources are authoritative and highly significant, providing a valuable contribution for those approaching the writings of Saint Ignatius and the perspective of Saint Luke. Preface by Giorgia Salatiello.
Where to buy: Amazon
Author: Father Arturo Guerra, LC
Title: God on the Bench – 33 Complaints
About: in Italian and Spanish
Where to buy: Edizioni ART and Instagram
Author: Father Miguel Cavallé, LC
Title: The Deception
About: “The Deception” is a philosophy book, but not only that. It is an essay that presents a sharp analysis of certain aspects of postmodern society and invites reflection on the search for happiness in human beings. It is a bold work, clearly countercultural and notably “incorrect”. Why is it called a deception? Where is the deception? What does “The School of Athens,” depicted on the cover, have to do with deception? Are the Greek philosophers the solution to deception or, on the contrary, its origin? And which of them, specifically? Has postmodern thought betrayed humanity? How? What is happiness? Is it possible to be happy today? And how? What role do family, gender, ecology, hikikomori, ghosting, the metaverse, New Age, social networks, or fitness play in the search for happiness?
Where to buy: Amazon
Author: Father Andreas Kramarz, LC, in the magazine Communio
Title: Transcendental Relationality: A New Proposal About the Person
About: The article presents a metaphysical foundation for the relational anthropology initially proposed by Joseph Ratzinger and proponents of personalism. It is a first step toward developing a coherent theoretical framework for comprehensive formation. Father Andreas is willing to share the article, case by case, via direct communication. If someone is interested, they can contact me and I will pass on Father Andreas’s contact information.
Where to buy: Communio
