Books to Buy
Students are not required to buy these texts, but they are responsible for having a copy for their sole use during the course. The Library provides a book exchange for students to pass on books they no longer need to other students, and is located in the library office. Please consider donating gently used textbooks. Identify any book to be dropped off for the swap so that they can be marked. Donation to the swap is not necessary to take books from it.
- Rite of Penance
USCCB
978-1601370990
$19.95 - Pastoral Care of the Sick: Rites of Anointing and Viaticum
Catholic Book Publishing
9780899421568
$25.86
Instructor Comment: Please purchase the English version. The English-Spanish version does not contain the full ritual, although it is important to have for future ministry. - Michael E. Giesler
Guidebook for Confessors
Scepter
978-1594170911
$14.95 - Fr. Basil Nortz, ORC
Deliver Us From Evil: Spiritual Battle And Prayers of Deliverance
Order of Canons Regular of the Holy Cross
978-1942174066
$9.00
Instructor Comment: You can find this book by doing a word search, e.g. Basil Nortz Deliver Us from Evil Opus. Otherwise the link is here.
Recommended Texts
Recommended texts are those from which not enough reading assignments are drawn to warrant asking students to provide their own copies or those that instructors think will enhance a student’s appreciation of the subject matter of the course. Any reading assignments drawn from these texts will be available on reserve.
Electronic Reserve
Below are links to required or recommended texts available in an electronic format. For physical reserve items, please refer to the course syllabus.
- Bauer, Benedict. Frequent Confession.
- Blessed Columba Marmion: “The Sacrament and the Virtue of Penance.”
- Cardinal Francis Stafford: “Sacraments of Healing: Reconciliation and Anointing”
- Commentz, Carlos: When and How to Have Recourse to the Apostolic Penitentiary
- Congregation for the Doctrine for the Doctrine of the Faith: “Note on the Minister of the Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick”
- Dinoia, Augustine and Joseph Fox: “Priestly Dimensions of the Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick”
- Kasza, John: “Understanding Sacramental Healing I”
- Kelly, Gerard: The Good Confessor
- Nault, Jean-Charles: “Acedia: Enemy of Spiritual Joy.”
- Order of Christian Funerals: “General Introduction.”
- Peters, Edward: “The Context of Indulgences: Repairing the Damage of Sin.”
- Peters, Edward: “A Short History and Theology of Indulgences”
- Poschmann, Bernhard: “Penance and Anointing of the Sick,” I.
- Poschmann, Bernhard: “Penance and Anointing of the Sick“, II.
- Saint Cyprian: On the Lapsed
- Saint John Paul II: Misericordia Dei
- Saint John Paul II: Salvifici Doloris
- Saint Paul VI: Indulgentiarum Doctrina
- Saint Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, III, 84-89
- Schrader, Dylan: “Anointing Before Surgery: When and Why?”
- Snow, Patricia: “Look at Me.”
- Tertullian: On Repentance
- The Council of Trent: “On the Sacraments of Penance and Extreme Unction”
