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Reading Ignatius ”Rule 3” DMP005

Saint Ignatius is super practical, clear, and offers a whole series of rules for living a spiritual life. Here is rule 3. For a good intro that can influence your life, try Fr. Gallagher's Discernment of Spirits.
https://a.co/d/g1raKaz
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Reading Saint Francis - DMP004

Saint Francis gives us a meditative prayer! If you wanted to do a reasonably accessible reading of a biography of Francis, I do like this one:
https://a.co/d/hky0TCz
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Reading Teresa of Avila Mansions DMP 003

St. Teresa of Avila, a doctor of the church, has a lot to say about prayer. She was a very clear teacher and based her ideas about prayer and spirituality upon her own life. Her witness of the way God activates supernatural virtues in us, of the way He seeks to reside within us, is outstanding. A good place to start is The Way of Perfection:
tinyurl.com/5d6y2hyu

Reading Bishop Turgot on St. Margaret of Scotland DM P 002

St. Margaret of Scotland was granddaughter of St. Stephen of Hungary. The Church has beatified and canonized many royal personages. This excerpt is from Bishop Turgot. The biography is not long:
https://archive.org/details/lifeofstmargaret00turguoft

Reading St. Augustine DMP 001

Off and on, we'll return to St. Augustine. My readings will come from the 2nd edition translation by Frank Sheed, from Hackett Publishing, used with their kind permission.
I highly recommend the Sheed translation. Others don't have the "feel" of Augustine's poetry, in my experience. Of course, YMMV.
A highly recommended source that shows off the Doctor of Grace in his variety as a bishop would be:
https://www.amazon.com/Augustine-His-Words-William-Harmless/dp/0813217431