Thread 24612482

I've been a pretty lukewarm Catholic my whole life, what should I read to be a better Catholic?

>>24612482 (OP)
Saint Agustine

Anything but the Bible.

>>24612482 (OP)
>what should I read to be a better Catholic
Watch Catholic movies and turn the subtitles on.

>>24612482 (OP)
>I've been a pretty lukewarm Catholic my whole life, what should I read to be a better Catholic?

The Holy bible is the most important book. Instead of trying to read it cover-to-cover, which can be daunting, consider a guided reading plan. The Great Adventure Catholic Bible is often recommended for its color-coded approach that breaks down salvation history into manageable periods. Alternatively, focus on the Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John) to get a deeper understanding of Jesus' life and teachings.

>>24612482 (OP)
Introduction to the Devout Life by St. Francis De Sales. Also, weekly to monthly Confession, confessing any and all venial sins, is very helpful.

Imitation of Christ

>>24612540
This, his Confessions. Read some enciclicals maybe

And if too small brain, do as he says
>>24612575
watch Pasolini's The Gospel according to Matthew

>>24612482 (OP)
I recommend you St. John and Theresa of Ávila, St. John of the Cross and for practical matters Loyola Spiritual exercises, the first ones will teach you mystical values and metaphysics, the last one practical mysticism.

>>24612771
>Pasolini's The Gospel according to Matthew
Incredibly ironic that the best movie about Christ came from a communist. Top notch stuff.

>>24612482 (OP)
Realize that you worship a kike rabbi because the kike pissed off other kikes and the Roman governors and threatened political stability so they killed him, his disciples stole his body from the walk-in tomb and claimed that he "resurrected" and ascended to heaven. Then some other lying kikes said he was god and then some other tards harvested concepts from Greek philosophy like stealing and misunderstanding the Logos concept from Heraclitus and the Stoics and kike Philo's Jewish bastardization of the term to apply to the dead kike-on-a-stick rabbi Yeshua being the organizing principle and creator of the universe as well as stealing the immortality of the soul from Plato's Phaedo and Origen retconning Plotinus and then chimptastic retardd Emperor Constantine who set the stage for the decline of the Roman empire with his currency reforms forcing the council of Nicaea to add the term homoousious and then the Cappadocian fathers desperately trying to circumvent this imperial intervention by clarifying the hypostases / homoousian distinction and then leading to the consolidation of the most diabolically moronic theological innovation; the Trinity. Now Kikestianity was spread throoughout the Empire and many centuries passed and we have you worshipping the Jew on the stick who want to import Mohammedans thankks to the universalist slave morality of Kikestianity who ironically have a more theologically coherent religion despite it emanating from a deranged schizophrenic illiterate pedophile merchant warlord from 6th century Hijaz.

>>24612587
What does the Christian Bible have to do with Catholicism?

Honestly, read Benedict. The Jesus of Nazareth books are great and not too hard for beginning readers.

>>24612482 (OP)
Being a "good catholic" has about as much meaning as being a good mcdonalds customer. You're expected to pay your $8.50, eat your burger, and then leave.

>>24613653
And you get to eat the flesh of human beings in both

>>24612482 (OP)
Anything by G.K Chesterton. Also, ironically, The Idiot. Dostoyevsky adds a lot of criticisms of Catholicism, but Myskin's portrayal of Christlike love is beautiful beyond words

>>24615019
Myskin isn't a Catholic. Catholics only care about making money. The entire sect is a grift like Scientology.

>>24612482 (OP)

Bump.

>>24612482 (OP)
Read the Summa. It's written for beginners according to St. Thomas.

>>24613508
Picrel was written by a heretic

Practicing the Presence of God by Brother Lawrence

>>24613623
The Catholic Church translated the Bible into Latin so no one couls read it anymore. Before that, it was in Greek, and everyone could understand it. Now thankfully the Bible is in English and we can read it again, but the Catholics haven't figured that out yet, or else they would be Baptist by now.

Honestly, OP should start praying the Rosary every day if he wants to stop being a "lukewarm" Catholic. Praying a daily Rosary had a very supercharging effect on my faith. I went from a pretty "normal" Catholic to a completely insane one, in a good way.

Any book with Christian philosophy?not Aquinas...maybe orthodox philo
Ty.

>>24612482 (OP)
95 Theses

>>24618389
No fanfics please

>>24612482 (OP)
Martin Luther, unironically

>>24617828
>The Catholic Church translated the Bible into Latin so no one couls read it anymore
Who told you that, Pastor Jim with the lifted truck? Jokes aside, St. Jerome translated it into the Vulgate in 382 waaaaaaaay before there was any such thing as a Non-Catholic Church (unless you wanna count the Manichaeans I guess.) Now do you remember enough of your Latin to guess what Vulgate means? I'll give you a hint, it's related to English "vulgur."

>>24618108
Most of the writing of the Saints, when it isn't biography, is what I would call philosophy, though it isn't traditionally grouped with the secular works. I would recommend St. Catherine of Sienna's Dialog with God to get a good sense of a Christian metaphysics of salvation and grace.

>>24612482 (OP)
pic rel will motivate you
also Meditations on the Tarot

>>24615026
oh yes tell me about Orthodoxy, Ivan, which is a political grift.

>>24619665
nta but there isn't a single orthodoxy
iirc the russian church is in scism with the greek church due to the former's becoming a state arm

>>24617832
Once I learned the rosary, I started praying it in rote so much so I forget which mystery I'm even on most of the time. How do you pray it? What do you focus on?

>>24615019
Talking about works of fiction that aren't Catholic but carry important teachings for Catholics, I suggest La Dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas (el hijo). Caritas is the most excellent of virtues, after all.

>>24612482 (OP)
Life Of Antony is a great read, Orthobro approved too

>>24619698
After a week you should be able to focus on the mystery while you're praying. Each of them has particular imagery and conceptual relation to life in Christ. For example; the Presentation in the Temple is about the Obedience that Jesus and Mary practice, even though they're both perfect, The Crowning with Thorns is suffered particularly for the sins of pride and the scourging for the sins of the body. I wish I could recommend a comprehensive source with more of these but all these I've learned from conversation with other Catholics. You might realize some on your own though if you focus on it.

>>24619698
Oh and it can help your memory if you pray all three sets of mysteries in a row. The order is chronological from Joyful-Sorrowful-Glorious with Luminous in between them all. If you don't already know the scenes in more detail you can find online a resource which will connect each Mystery to a particular verse

>>24619673
oh I'm aware

The saints all recommend saints lives as a very key thing.
apart from that i'd recommend
https://www.amazon.com/Prayer-Great-Means-Salvation-Perfection/dp/1644135426

if you want some saints lives here's one but there are a ton
https://www.amazon.com/Cure-DArs-St-Jean-Marie-Baptiste-Vianney/dp/0895550202


also just read this it's short (i dont know of any in print editions that have this sadly):
https://alphonsianum.blogspot.com/2010/01/christians-rule-of-life-chapter-1.html
https://alphonsianum.blogspot.com/2010/01/christians-rule-of-life-chapter-2.html
https://alphonsianum.blogspot.com/2010/01/christians-rule-of-life-chapter-3.html
https://alphonsianum.blogspot.com/2010/02/christians-rule-of-life-chapter-4.html

>>24612482 (OP)
there's nothing wrong with being a lukewarm Catholic... just don't be a lukewarm person... it's better to fear the Lord than to fear death... be nice to people... and if you have energy left over to visit every Catholic Church in your area and choose one in which you feel great, go for it

btw happy Saint Dominic day!