"To 'listen'
another's soul into a condition of disclosure and discovery may be
almost the greatest service that one human being ever performs for
another:"
-Douglas Steere
Core Texts for Year 1
Barry,
William and William Connolly: The Practice of Spiritual DirectionMinneapolis: Seabury, 1982.
Dyckman, Katherine Marie and L. Patrick Carroll:Inviting
the Mystic, Supporting the Prophet New York: Paulist Press 1981
Hart, Thomas: The Art of Christian Listening.
New York: Paulist Press, 1980
Rolheiser, Ronald: The Holy Longing: The Search
for Christian Spirituality. New York: Doubleday, 1999
Core Texts for Year 2
Au,
Wilkie: By Way of the Heart. New York: Paulist Press, 1989
Buckley, Suzanne, (Editor): Sacred is the
Call. NewYork: Crossroad Publishing, 2005
Conroy, Maureen: Growing in Love and
Freedom Denville New Jersey: Dimension Books, 1987
Guenther, Margaret: Holy Listening: The
Art of Spiritual Direction Cambridge: Crowley Publications, 1992
Core Texts for Year 3
Au, Wilkie and
Maureen Cannon: Urgings of the Heart: A Spirituality of Integration
New York: Paulist Press, 1995
Buckley, Suzanne M.Ed.: Sacred is the
Call: Formation and Transformation in Spiritual Direction Programs
New York:
Crossroads Publishing Company, 2005
Bumpus, Mary Rose and Langer, Rebecca Bradburn
(Editors): Supervision of Spiritual Directors Harrisburg,
Pennsylvania:
Morehouse
Publishing, 2005
Conroy, Maureen: Looking into the Well
Chicago: Loyola University Press, 1995