August BOTM - Voting

[John]

It is time to vote for the August BOTM. You may vote for two of the books listed below. Enter your votes by replying in this thread. Voting will end at or about 5 PM, Central time on July 18. A book will be randomly selected for elimination from the nominations list from those that don't receive any votes. Teresa of Avila: The Progress of a Soul is exempted from the randomizer as this is its first month on the list. The nominations are:

Cleansed by Fire, by James R. Callan
Churches are burning and a man is murdered, plunging a small Texas town into a state of fear. Father Frank DeLuca, pastor of Prince of Peace Church, is thrust into an impossible dilemma when he hears that another church will be burned. But the disturbing information comes to him via the confessional, and church law forbids him from telling anyone—even the police.


Fatal Rhythm, by R.B. O'Gorman -
In the pre-dawn hours of the graveyard shift, the ICU at the Houston Heart Institute is quiet, and quietly patients are dying. Surgery resident Joe Morales dreams of becoming a rich heart doctor. First, he must survive his assignment to an ICU rife with land mines--unexplained patient deaths, rival faculty, fellow resident saboteurs, a cost-slashing administrator, a ruthless insurance executive, a seductive head nurse, a jealous wife, a critically ill son, an overprotective mother, and an orderly distraught over his daughter's death. To salvage the career he thought he wanted, Joe must determine the cause of the suspicious deaths. In the process, he's forced to re-examine the ethnic and religious heritage that he had rejected.

Introduction to the Devout Life, by Francis de Sales
Written for Christians in every walk of life and for every age, St. Francis De Sales' classic work transcends secular lines and provides a unique handbook of spiritual reflection for people in every avenue of life.

The Jesus Prayer: A Cry for Mercy, a Path of Renewal, by John Michael Talbot
An ancient prayer for every day: "Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on me, a sinner." These words have strengthened and comforted believers for centuries. The Jesus Prayer comes to us from the Eastern Christian tradition. In these pages, John Michael Talbot explores more of the roots of the prayer along with the theological and practical meaning of each word in the lives of believers today. Readers are invited to meditate on the twelve simple words that lie at the heart of the Christian East. Complete with historical context and exercises for self-reflection, this book shows how a single prayer could sustain the spiritual life of a civilization. Each chapter ends with a brief practice using the prayer.

A Martyr for the Truth: Jerzy Popieuszko, by Grazyna Sikorska

On the God of the Christians:, by Rémi Brague
[The book description on GR is in French. The following is from Amazon, which indicates it is from the back cover of the book.]
On the God of the Christians tries to explain how Christians conceive of the God whom they worship. No proof for His existence is offered, but simply a description of the Christian image of God.

The Spiritual Combat, by Dom Lorenzo Scupuli
The Combat is a practical manual of living. At first it teaches that the sense of life is incessant fighting against egoistic longings and replacing them with sacrifice and charity. The one who does not do this loses, and suffers in Hell; the one who does it, trusting not in his own, but God's power, triumphs and is happy in Heaven. The work of Scupoli analyses various usual situations and advises how to cope with them, preserving a pure conscience and improving virtue. It emphasizes also the boundless goodness of God, which is the cause of all good. What is bad originates from the human who rebels against God.

Staggerford, by Jon Hassler
It is only a week in the life of a 35-year old bachelor school teacher in a small Minnesota town. But it is an extraodinary week, filled with the poetry of living, the sweetness of expectation, and the glory of surprise that can change a life forever....

Teresa of Avila: The Progress of a Soul, by Cathleen Medwick
A refreshingly modern reconsideration of Saint Teresa (1515-1582), one of the greatest mystics and reformers to emerge within the sixteenth-century Catholic Church, whose writings are a keystone of modern mystical thought.

Way of the Ascetics: The Ancient Tradition of Discipline and Inner Growth, by Tito Colliander
Written for lay persons living in the world, this is an excellent resource for daily meditation, spiritual guidance and a revitalized religious life.

[Joseph]

Votes for Fatal Rythmn and The Spiritual Combat

Thanks!
Joe

[Kaye]

Fatal Rhythm and Cleansed by Fire

[Jill]

On the God of the Christians
Martyr for Truth

[John]

Votes emailed to me:

Margaret - Introduction to the Devour Life.

Celia - Fatal Rhythm
A Martyr for the Truth

[Barbara]

Introduction to the Devout Life
Way of the Ascetics: The Ancient Tradition of Discipline and Inner Growth

[Fonch]

I think that in this ocassion i will not be able to vote again :-(. Except Saint Francis Sales, and Remi Brague i do not know the rest of the candidates, but i am sure that they are good writers.

In a few days i will go to my village. I take the chance to say see you on September-October to the members of Catholic Book Club.

[Jane]

Teresa of Avila: Progress of a Soul
and
Spiritual Combat

[Nicole]

I vote for Introduction to the Devout Life.

[John]

Sarah wrote: "I vote for Cleansed by Fire and The Perfect Blindside by Leslea Wahl (I know that's not on here; I just don't want it to get eliminated)."

Sarah, it is in the nominations queue in the Nominations folder/thread. Voting for it has no effect.

[John]

I will vote for A Martyr for the Truth: Jerzy Popieuszko and The Jesus Prayer: A Cry for Mercy, a Path of Renewal