Recommended Aids to Improve Your Prayer Life in Lent, by Dr. Jeff Mirus (Lent Begins March 5th)

By Dr. Jeff Mirus, Catholic Culture, Feb 18, 2025

Jeffrey Mirus holds a Ph.D. in intellectual history from Princeton University. A co-founder of Christendom College, he also pioneered Catholic Internet services. He is the founder of Trinity Communications and CatholicCulture.org.

Periodically I try to recommend a few worthwhile books for devotional use during Lent, concentrating on what might have been newly released by trusted Catholic publishers. The last time I did this was in 2022. I’ve had to update a number of the publishers’ links, but that Lenten reading list is now ready for use again. Note that neither that list of recommendations nor the new short list below is an attempt to identify the great spiritual classics. Very probably that would be more rewarding; but my aim here is simpler: With some more complex exceptions, to acquaint readers with recently-published, programmatic and typically daily aids to the development of the spiritual life.

To the 2022 list, then, I would like to add five newer books which have come across my (or my wife’s) desk in the past year. You can learn more about each book by following the publishers’ links. So here they are: …

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