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Built around the books encountered in the Jesuit novitiate, here are the top reads for a "School of the Heart."
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The Fifth Week
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3.60 avg rating — 73 ratings
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Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community
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4.28 avg rating — 31,808 ratings
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Community and Growth
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4.37 avg rating — 496 ratings
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Do Justice: Practical Ways to Engage Our World
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4.12 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Gracias
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4.20 avg rating — 415 ratings
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Heart of L'Arche: A Spirituality for Every Day
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4.30 avg rating — 43 ratings
score: 98,
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Personal Writings
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4.04 avg rating — 113 ratings
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Visiting the Sick: A Guide for Parish Ministers
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4.11 avg rating — 9 ratings
score: 97,
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Ejercicios de contemplación. Introducción a la vida contemplativa y a la invocación de Jesús
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4.59 avg rating — 63 ratings
score: 97,
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The Name of God is Mercy
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4.18 avg rating — 6,208 ratings
score: 96,
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Contemplatives in Action: The Jesuit Way
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3.71 avg rating — 105 ratings
score: 96,
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The Holy Longing: The Search for a Christian Spirituality
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4.08 avg rating — 3,262 ratings
score: 95,
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The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything: A Spirituality for Real Life
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James Martin (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 7,777 ratings
score: 95,
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Integral Humanism, Freedom in the Modern World, and A Letter on Independence, Revised Edition (Collected Works of Jacques Maritain)
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4.19 avg rating — 27 ratings
score: 94,
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The Earth Is the Lord's: The Inner World of the Jew in Eastern Europe
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4.11 avg rating — 123 ratings
score: 93,
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Loaves and Fishes: The Inspiring Story of the Catholic Worker Movement
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4.16 avg rating — 536 ratings
score: 92,
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The Gift of Peace: Personal Reflections
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4.26 avg rating — 805 ratings
score: 91,
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Laudato Si: On care for our common home
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4.25 avg rating — 3,868 ratings
score: 90,
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Living Celibacy: Healthy Pathways for Priests
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4.08 avg rating — 13 ratings
score: 89,
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Draw Me Into Your Friendship
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4.50 avg rating — 14 ratings
score: 88,
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Hearts on Fire: Praying with Jesuits
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Michael Harter (Editor)
4.48 avg rating — 197 ratings
score: 87,
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1 person voted
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Prayer: Our Deepest Longing
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4.35 avg rating — 681 ratings
score: 86,
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Christian Spirituality: A Historical Sketch
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3.62 avg rating — 13 ratings
score: 85,
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A Pilgrim's Testament: The Memoirs of Ignatius of Loyola
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4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
score: 84,
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God's Voice Within: The Ignatian Way to Discover God's Will
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4.41 avg rating — 697 ratings
score: 83,
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From Monks to Missionaries: Schools of Spirituality in the Christian Tradition
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3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
score: 82,
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The Saints' Guide to Happiness: Practical Lessons in the Life of the Spirit
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4.13 avg rating — 194 ratings
score: 81,
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Man's Search for Meaning: An Introduction to Logotherapy
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4.37 avg rating — 847,519 ratings
score: 79,
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Reducing the Storm to a Whisper: The Story of a Breakdown
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4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
score: 78,
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The Wounded Healer
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4.23 avg rating — 12,882 ratings
score: 77,
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All Saints: Daily Reflections on Saints, Prophets, & Witnesses for Our Time
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4.51 avg rating — 181 ratings
score: 76,
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Mentoring: The Ministry of Spiritual Kinship
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3.73 avg rating — 22 ratings
score: 75,
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Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion
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4.49 avg rating — 29,283 ratings
score: 74,
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The Pursuit of Happiness - God's Way: Living the Beatitudes
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4.11 avg rating — 63 ratings
score: 73,
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The Book of Mev
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4.62 avg rating — 131 ratings
score: 71,
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The Abolition of Man
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4.12 avg rating — 39,449 ratings
score: 70,
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Globalization, Spirituality, and Justice: Navigating the Path to Peace
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4.03 avg rating — 86 ratings
score: 69,
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On Job: God-Talk and the Suffering of the Innocent
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4.25 avg rating — 491 ratings
score: 68,
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The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming
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4.38 avg rating — 25,138 ratings
score: 67,
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East of Eden
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4.43 avg rating — 615,136 ratings
score: 66,
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The Brothers Karamazov
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4.39 avg rating — 375,844 ratings
score: 65,
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The Cost of Discipleship
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4.29 avg rating — 49,348 ratings
score: 64,
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The Long Loneliness: The Autobiography of the Legendary Catholic Social Activist
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4.02 avg rating — 5,588 ratings
score: 63,
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Either/Or: A Fragment of Life
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4.16 avg rating — 10,077 ratings
score: 62,
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The Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Upbuilding and Awakening
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4.09 avg rating — 11,903 ratings
score: 61,
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Fear and Trembling
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score: 60,
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Rerum Novarum: Encyclical Letter Of Pope Leo XIII On The Condition Of The Working Classes
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4.40 avg rating — 955 ratings
score: 59,
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Ressentiment
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4.08 avg rating — 308 ratings
score: 58,
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Confessions
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3.99 avg rating — 72,390 ratings
score: 57,
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On Free Choice of the Will
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3.93 avg rating — 1,780 ratings
score: 56,
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The Symposium
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4.09 avg rating — 87,387 ratings
score: 55,
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After Virtue
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4.18 avg rating — 6,259 ratings
score: 54,
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The Republic
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3.97 avg rating — 222,190 ratings
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The Seven Storey Mountain
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4.08 avg rating — 20,641 ratings
score: 52,
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The Nicomachean Ethics
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score: 51,
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Evangelii Gaudium: The Joy of the Gospel
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4.44 avg rating — 2,537 ratings
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