Here are some recently written books by Legionaries of Christ and consecrated members of Regnum Christi. Some suggestions for summer reading.
Title: Para bien morir
Author: P. Lorenzo Gómez, LC
Publisher: Hombre Nuevo
Review: A book of prayers and life teachings: «Father, into your hands I commend my spirit» (Lk 23:46). Jesus died out of love, in obedience, to save his friends. At the moment of death, he could say with peace and full joy: «It is finished».
The book can be purchased here.
Title: Poetry Matters: An Regnum Christi essay on how poetry nourishes our integral formation
Author: P. Bruce Wren, L.C.
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Review: An essay that presents the importance of poetry in comprehensive formation, proposes a list of poems and poets for members of Regnum Christi, and offers a selection of poems written by some members of the Movement.
The book is available here.
Title: Philosophical essays. About God, the world, and man
Author: H. Ricardo Arriola, L.C.
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Review: The book awakens in the reader a healthy curiosity to know who they are, where they come from, where they are going, why they are in this world, what happens after death, what is the ultimate meaning of human life… Valid and transcendent questions that have interested humans since their beginnings and require an answer also from today’s man.
The book can be purchased here.
Title: The mystery of merciful grace
Author: P. Pedro Barrajón, L.C.
Publisher: If Press
Review: The book presents the mystery of grace that reaches man in a surprising way and shows the greatness of a God, rich in mercy, who loves us to the end through the donation of his Son.
The book can be purchased here.
Title: The feelings and resentments
Author: P. Lorenzo Gómez, L.C.
Publisher: Hombre Nuevo
Review: A proper emotional education is necessary, always knowing that between feeling and action there is freedom. Learn to educate your own feelings and achieve healthy self-control.
The book can be purchased here.
Title: Passover
Author: P. Lucio Boccacci, L.C.
Publisher: If Press
Review: A commentary on Lk 2:41-42. Describes the first pilgrimage of the child Jesus to Jerusalem during Passover and deepens the meaning of this Jewish-origin festival and how Christ fulfilled its sense with his Death and Resurrection.
The book is available here.
Title: El tesoro escondido. Descúbrelo en tu temperamento
Author: P. Lorenzo Gómez, L.C.
Publisher: Hombre Nuevo
Review: The book explains how to know your own temperament and that of the people you interact with daily to understand, accept, and better understand why they decide, act, and speak as they do. Knowing yourself and those around you is a support for charity!
The book can be purchased here.
Title: Nada oculto
Author: P. Vicente Yanes, L.C.
Publisher: SER
Review: Five friends find a treasure and must cross a precipice to access it… It is a mystery novel where the protagonists must fight their own demons and always let the truth prevail over lies.
The book can be purchased here.
Title: The mystery of eternal love: A retreat guide on the Blessed Trinity
Author: P. John Pietropaoli, L.C.
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Review: This retreat guide offers a reflection on the mystery of the Holy Trinity and how the human being, created in the image and likeness of God, is called to participate in the divine life.
The book can be purchased here.
Title: The vocational discernment according to St. John of Avila
Author: P. Enrique Tapia, L.C.
Publisher: Ateneo Pontificio Regina Apostolorum.
Review: A doctoral thesis that presents, among other things, the fundamental elements of vocational discernment: divine choice and calling, suitability, right intention, free and generous response, and the time for vocational discernment.
The book can be purchased here.
Title: The faithful steward. A Lenten retreat guide on St. Joseph
Author: P. John Bartunek, L.C.
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Review: Why is St. Joseph such a popular patron saint, an important figure for Catholics of all times and places? What do we really know about him? What does he have to teach us about following Christ?
The book can be purchased here.
In the following titles, some Legionaries or consecrated members have collaborated
Title: Romano Guardini and existential thought
Editor: P. Juan Gabriel Ascencio, L.C.
Publisher: Cantagalli
Review: The category of “existence” in its multiple derivations plays an important role in Guardini’s anthropological and theological thought. The volume is the result of a similar agreement organized by the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum.
The book can be purchased here.
Title: Consecration in exit. Laity’s consecration in the Church of the Third Millennium in the light of Vatican II
Editors: Alberto García Gómez, María José Chavez y P. Juan Carlos Ortega, L.C.
Publisher: Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane
Review: Acts of the congress held at the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum on the gift of lay consecration.
The book can be purchased here.
Title: El Reino de Cristo: Historia, Teología, Vida
Editor: P. Nikola Derpich, L.C.
Publisher: Ateneo Pontificio Regina Apostolorum
Review: The book, published in Spanish, is the result of a study congress organized by the faculty of theology of the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum on the occasion of the 75
