Digital Resources
DIGITAL BOOKS
Below are digital copies of Arnold van Westerhout’s “Vita Effigiata,” with engravings of Teresa’s life, a 15th Century Carmelite “Book of Hours,” and “The Speculum Carmelitanum.”
Title Page
Speculum Carmelitanum: sive, historia Eliani Ordinis Fratrum
Beatissimae Virginis Mariae de Monte Carmelo
Daniel a Virgine Maria, O.Carm., 1615-1678
1680
ARTICLES by Fr. Ernest E. Larkin, O.Carm.
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1) Amazing Grace
2) Asceticism
3) Asceticism in Modern Life
4) Aspiratory Prayer, a Welcome Addition
5) Behold Your Mother
6) The Call of Carmel
7) Carmelite Life Renewed
8) Carmelite Lives: Christian P. Ceroke
9) Carmelite Spirituality
10) Carmelite Spirituality for a Carmelite
11) Carmelite Spirituality for a Carmelite
12) Carmelite Spirituality Today
13) Carmelite Spirituality Today
14) Carmelite Tradition & Centering Prayer
15) Charismatic Renewal & Contemplation
16) Christ & Prayer
17) Christian Mindfulness
18) Clerical Celibacy
19) Spiritual Canticle: John of the Cross
20) Contemplative Prayer – Soul of Apostolate
21) Contemplative Prayer Forms Today
22) The Dark Night of John of the Cross
23) Desacralization & Asceticism
24) Desert Spirituality
25) Discernment of Spirits
26) Emotional Life & Spiritual Development
27) What is Christian Meditation?
28) Experiencing God
29) Centering Prayer to Christian Meditation
30) Guidlines for Discernment
31) Homily by Fr. Larkin
32) Human Relationships in St. Teresa of Avila
33) Is Prayer in Trouble Today?
34) Jesus-Me / Jesus-We
35) John of the Cross: One Like Ourselves
36) John of the Cross’s Message for Today
37) The Journey of Teresa
38) Journey to Prayer: Interview w/ Fr. Larkin
39) Jubilee Spirituality
40) Spiritual Theologian
41) Kino Institute: A New Venture
42) Little Way of St Thérèse of Lisieux
43) Love Responding to Presence (Part 1)
44) Love Responding to Presence (Part 2)
45) Meet St. Mary Magdalen
46) A Method for Reading Spiritual Classics
47) Methods of Prayer
48) Mysticism & Spirituality
49) Mysticism & Literature
50) Mysticism, True & False
51) New Aspects of Spiritual Direction
52) New Seminarians and Now Prayer
53) Pastoral Note on Slaying in the Spirit
54) St. Mary Magdalene De’Pazzi
55) Personal Prayer Life of Jesus
56) The Place of Prayer in Community
57) The Place of Prayer in Community Life
58) Prayer as Encounter w/ Transcendent God
59) Prayer as Experience of God
60) Prayer as Presence
61) Prayer as Presence
62) Prayer Journey of St. John of the Cross
63) Priestly Spirituality
64) The Problem of Prayer Today
65) Problems of the Common Life
66) Re-Evaluating Religious Life
67) Religious Life & Vatican II
68) Religious Life in Light of Vatican II
69) Religious Poverty
70) Religious Woman, God & the World
71) Remembrances of Friend, Teacher…
72) Role of Creatures in the Spiritual Life
73) Scriptural-Theological Aspects…
74) Scriptural-Theological Aspects (Review)
75) The Search for Experience
76) Spiritual Direction Today
77) Spiritual Poverty
78) Spiritual Reading of “Dark Night”
79) Christian Spirituality
80) Spirituality Implied by the Directory
81) Spirituality of Religious – Vatical II
82) Structure & Spirit in Religious Renewal
83) St. Teresa of Avila & Centering Prayer
84) St. Teresa of Avila & Prayer
85) St. Teresa of Avila & Women’s Liberation
86) Teresa of Avila: My Lifetime’s Quest
87) Teresa of Avila Speaks on Mental Prayer
88) Thérèse’s Prayer: Love Growing…
89) Thérèse’s Prayer: Presence in Absence
90) Thérèse’s Prayer: Trial of Faith…
91) Today’s Contemplative Prayer Forms
92) The Three Spiritual Ways
93) What to Know about Discernment
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