The Catholic Book Club discussion

We again have a tie this month. Our winners are The Autobiography of St. Anthony Mary Claret by St. Anthony Mary Claret, and He Leadeth Me by Walter J. Ciszek, which were tied with 7 votes each.

As is our practice, that means we will read both books and the order is determined by the randomizer. So our April 2019 BOTM will be The Autobiography of St. Anthony Mary Claret and our May 2019 BOTM will be He Leadeth Me.

The next book was The Spiritual Combat, which got 4 votes, followed by Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of St. Therese of Lisieux, The Return of the Prodigal Son, and Out of the Ashes, which got 3 votes each.

All of the remaining books had between 1 and 2 votes, with a single exception. Sons of Cain, by Val Bianco, received no votes and is not protected, so it will be dropped from the voting list.

The three books to be added to the list for our next vote (in May) are Gaudete et Exsultate--Rejoice and be glad: On the call to holiness in the contemporary world by Pope Francis, proposed by Jill; I Am Margaret by Corinna Turner, proposed by Fonch; and Ascent of Mount Carmel by St. John of the Cross, proposed by Manuel.

Now we can go back to read The Power of Silence.

Our public library doesn't have the Claret autobiography and it doesn't sound like something I want to purchase--sinners dangling over hell?

Hello
http://www.claret.org/download/630/en...

I found a document from the claret's organization that seems to be the autobiography. I'm searching for the book at my religious bookstore too, but it seems I will have to read the .doc version.

have a nice day

Tania wrote: "Hello
http://www.claret.org/download/630/en...

I found a document from the claret's organization that seems to be the autobiography. I'm searching for the book at my rel..."

I can provide a version of this file in epub and mobi formats (the second for Amazon Kindle). If you want me to send it to you, send me a PM stating which you want, with an e-mail address.

I only read "real" books.

I found this online:

"It happens nearly every time we introduce the name of this remarkable saint in the course of conversation. Our uninformed inquirers wonder aloud, “How is it that I never heard of him?”

Anthony Claret was a renowned apostle — one to be compared to no lesser figure than Saint Francis Xavier. Too, he was a miracle worker whose prodigious cures would rival the marvels of Saint Anthony of Padua. And, like Saint Vincent Ferrer, he was a mystic, as well whose prophecies unfolded the events of our very day. What is more, as was told him by Our Lady, he was to be the Saint Dominic of the latter times spreading devotion to the Holy Rosary. In his own era, however, he would best be remembered as “the most calumniated man of the nineteenth century.”

Yes, he was all these and more — in the last analysis, Saint Anthony Mary Claret was perhaps the greatest of our great modern Saints. And yet, strangely enough, scarcely a century after his death he is also probably the least known."

Here is a free PDF copy> Enjoy

http://www.saintsworks.net/books/St.%...