Applying to seminary, what books should I read?

An epistemology textbook

>Benedykt
Are you Polish OP?
Also This should keep you busy for a while: acountrypriest.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/hardon.pdf

If you look through the past few Christian recommendation threads in the Archive, there are some more specific suggestions

>all this catholic shit
>no John chrysostom
>no Gregory palamas
>no st. Sava
>no symeon the new theologian

A college/trade school pamphlet. There's literally no point in being a priest in this day and age

You're still applying to a seminary so that means you didn't understand it when you read it the first time around.

>tip

>St John Chrysostum:
>On the Priesthood
>Address on Vainglory and the Right Way for Parents to Bring up their Children

I'm assuming you're just a troll and ignored the link I posted. These pictures aren't comprehensive Catholic/Orthodox literature, but they are good enough to point someone in the right direction

>edges

That's right, I'm giving him a helpful tip. You don't want to build your life around imaginary concepts like God or love.

Nothing matters and we're all just space dust! Wubalubadubdub!

Of course I ignored the link, user. Why would I click the link?
>Rick and Morty

Necessary Old Testament books v. those I could set aside for later, after the New Testament?

You're clearly a moron, perhaps the priesthood IS right for your kind

The Golden Legend

It's a bunch of hagiographies written by a bishop in the Middle Ages. It's pretty interesting

Here's a shitty pic of the list then. Not trying to give you a virus user
It's hard to list the most important books since the entire old testament sets the stage for the new testament. At the very least Genesis, Exodus, and Kings I guess. Numbers, Deuteronomy, and Leviticus can be grueling to get through, especially if you don't go into it with the right background

>he actually bought the atheism meme

laughingwhores dot jaypeg

Pretty rich coming from a guy wholl waste his money in seminary "school"

I am still rather upset that there is no Gregory Palamas here. Hesychasm is great.

Somebody has to consecrate the host and absolve sins.

bruh. i don't have to pay for anything.

Gonna be hard with low attendance rates and a lot of churches closing down.

So then you'll be wasting your time and life!

>my recommendation is completely ignored

Sigrid Undset!

that pdf list is great, cheers.

>Gonna be hard with low attendance rates and a lot of churches closing down

Why would this dissuade any committed Christian from becoming a Priest or Minister? This would only keep out careerist hacks in it for social prestige.

Christ guaranteed that the gates of hell will not prevail against the Roman Catholic Church. What are a bunch of atheists/secularists going to do? Tip fedoras at the Pope?

It's not worth showing up to work if there's no one to listen to you.

Make our own lives and values according to our standards of morals. I don't need the promise of heaven to be a good person, I can just be.

>What are a bunch of atheists/secularists going to do? Tip fedoras at the Pope?
Well, they can not give him cash/tax church properties for starters.

>It's not worth showing up to work if there's no one to listen to you.
You're missing the whole point of religion if you're being serious
>Make our own lives and values according to our standards of morals. I don't need the promise of heaven to be a good person, I can just be.
I hope you don't need me to explain why moral relativism is retarded. Please stop posting

Believe me I know what religion represents to people, having gone to religious schools and church for most of my life, until I came to the conclusion that my way of seeing the world doesnt align with what the church teaches.

If I wasn't posting from my phone Id go into more detail what I mean, but you'd be surprised to find that I'm sure you and I share some common ground on morality and what not.

I just think in this day and age being a priest is a pointless endeavor, what with the countless alternatives people are finding to replace religion and ideals with.

Catholic General's Recommended Books

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>GENERAL

The Bible (Ignatius Study Bible Recommended)
The catechism of your denomination

>accepted English versions of Bible

NABRE
Douay Rheims
RSV

>THEOLOGY

>novice

Introduction to Christianity by Joseph Ratzinger
The Last Superstition by Edward Feser
The Everlasting Man by G.K. Chesterton
Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton
Mere Christianity
CATHOLICISM by Robert Barron
The Orthodox Way by Kallistos Ware
Outlines of Moral Theology by Francis J. Connell

>intermediate

Scholastic Metaphysics by Edward Feser
God: His Existence and His Nature by Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange
Natural Theology by Bernard Boedder
The Spirit of Medieval Philosophy by Etienne Gilson
Against Heresies
City of God
Christianity for Modern Pagans
The Mystical Theology of the Eastern Church

>advanced

Apologia Pro Vita Sua
Summa Contra Gentiles
Summa Theologiae
On the Incarnation
The Didache
Divine Names by Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite

>SPIRITUAL LIFE

>novice

The Introduction to the Devout Life by St. Francis de Sales
Story of a Soul by St. Therese
The Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton
Orthodoxy and the Religion of the Future by Fr Seraphim Rose
Nihilism - Fr Seraphim Rose

part 1

>intermediate

The Interior Castle
Spiritual Exercises by St. Ignatius
Dialogues by St. Catherine of Sienna
True Devotion to Mary
True Devotion to the Holy Spirit

>advanced

The Cloud of Unknowing
The Dark Night of the Soul by St. John of the Cross
The Desert Fathers
The Philokalia
The Ladder of Divine Ascent
New Seeds of Contemplation by Thomas Merton
The Imitation of Christ by Thomas Kempis

>MEMETICS

Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World by Rene Girard
I See Satan Fall Like Lightning by Rene Girard

>HISTORICAL/BIOGRAPHICAL

Rome Sweet Home
The Long Loneliness by Dorothy Day
After Virtue
Christendom I: Founding of Christendom
Theology and Social Theory by John Millbank
Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy by Bernard Williams
Life of St.Anthony by Saint Athanasius
Life of St Francis of Assisi by Saint Bonaventure
Silouan the Athonite by Archimandrite Sophrony
The Autobiography of St. Ignatius Loyol
The Formation of Christendom by Christopher Dawson
The Dividing of Christendom by Christoper Dawson

>FICTION

Don Quixote
Diary of a Country Priest
The Divine Comedy
Paradise Lost
Silence by Shusaku Endo
A Canticle for Leibowitz
Faust
Les Miserables
The Canterbury Tales
The Man Who Was Thursday
The Brothers Karamazov
A Man for All Seasons
The Pillars of the Earth
The Lord of the Rings
The Chronicles of Narnia
Lord of the World
Parzifal
Joseph of Arimathea: A Romance of the Grail
The Arthurian Cycle
Quo Vadis

>Make our own lives and values according to our standards of morals.

80% chance this guy supports physicalism and naturalism at the same time that he says this.

kek
>u jist gotta think for urself bro!!!! ok hold up but first buy into all these assumptions about the world n shieet

Prove existence of supernatural beings then

I think arguments for Divine Conservation do fine there. More importantly, you miss the criticism in that isn't on physicalism or naturalism but their contradiction with the greentext quote.

An actual atheist :0

just gargle your own semen

>the countless alternatives people are finding to replace religion and ideals with

Those are called "idols". The practice of replacing religion with them is called "idolatry". Its not a new thing.

Read the Rerum Novarum, Mirari Vos, Syllabus.
This're documents from Popes.

Now, read:
Open Letter to Confused Catholics
Against the Heresies
Religious Liberty Questioned
The Mass of All Time: the Hidden Treasure
I Accuse the Council

All of this books are works of Marcel Lefebvre.

And do something good to yourself, to your soul, go to a FSSPX seminary (fsspx.org/en/content/6055).

Sorry for some grammar errors.

Religion is a means to an end. If your clergy tries to replace you with subhumans, I wouldn't call rejecting that imposition idolatry. It's more like, I don't know, sanity?

Absolutely.

Which seminary?

Why would a list made by a catholic croat include sv. Sava? Or any other schismatic for that matter?