The purpose of this page is to list out the specific goals or objectives of my studies by specifying the questions I want to answer and then finding the ideal works to study that can help me answer them. This will help give order to my studies, rather than a random selection of books that happen to interest me at the time.
Goal: To fulfill my duties to God
- What are my duties to God?
- Duties as listed in the Catechism of the Catholic Church i.e. what am I expected to obey and believe as a Catholic that are directed primarily towards Gods rather than my neighbor?
- What are the duties of religion?
- What does the command “be perfect” mean and how to fulfill it?
- Recognizing my mortality and growing in fear of the Lord
- St. Alphonsus Liguori Preparation for Death
- How to recognize the great benefits received by God in my life and contrast that to my own ingratitude and infidelity
- How to truly understand the punishments I deserve for my sins in order to recognize Christ’s great sacrifice and loving Him for that
- How to pray rightly?
- What is the purpose of prayer and how to fulfill it?
- Ways of Mental Prayer
- Way of Perfection by St. Theresa of Avila
- Understanding the Liturgy of the Hours
- Understanding the rosary
- Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and growing in love for Him.
- What is the purpose of prayer and how to fulfill it?
- How to fast and mortify oneself with prudence and discernment?
- What is the purpose of fasting and mortification?
- What benefits are gained with fasting and mortification?
- Why did the saints of medieval times mortify themselves so severely?
- How to attend mass rightly?
- Understanding the mass
- Preparing for mass and receiving the Sacrament of Communion worthily
- How to live by and celebrate the Liturgical Calendar?
- How to overcome vice and grow in virtue?
- What are the virtues and vices?
- Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics
- St Thomas Aquinas’ Summa Theologica
- What are my dominant vices and how to overcome them?
- Living a live of virtue
- Making a proper examination of conscience to identify my greatest vices and common temptations in order to slowly overcome them and plan practically to avoid them
- St Francis of Sales Introduction to the Devout Life
- Lives of the Saints
- Imitation of Christ
- Developing the habit of interior recollection and mindfulness of God in all things
- Solitude and Silence by Thomas a Kempis
- What are the virtues and vices?
- What is the Dominican Order and how to live a Dominican Life?
- Life of St. Dominic
- Life of St. Catherine of Sienna
- Life of St. Thomas Aquinas
Goal: To fulfill my duties to others
- What is the purpose of marriage and how to fulfill my duties towards my husband?
- How to live a life of poverty, chastity, and prayer rightly and prudently as a wife and mother?
- How to remain recollected and prayerful while still fulfilling my duties to my husband and children?
- How to help my husband grow in virtue and holiness with gentleness, respect, and patience yet remain firm and honest?
- What is the purpose of parenthood and how to fulfill my duties towards my children?
- What is true education: Chatecism of the Catholic Church
- How do I give my children true education?
- What are the Classical Liberal Arts and do they fulfill the purpose of true education?
- How to fulfill my duties as a citizen?
- How to do works of mercy and live out the beatitudes in the 21st century?
- What are the works of mercy?
- What are the beatitudes and what do they mean?
- How to admonish rightly
- Growing in love and tenderness towards my neighbor in order to admonish rightly
- How to educate and instruct rightly
- St Alphonsus Liguori’s History of Heresies: To understand the ancient heresies that have attacked the church throughout the ages, recognize them in their modern form, and be able to refute them
- History of the Catholic Church
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