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 Anonymous (c. 65)
- The Didache or Teaching of the Twelve Apostles

 Hermas (first or second century)
- The Shepherd

 St. Ignatius of Antioch (50-107)
- Epistle to the Smyrnaeans

 Clement of Alexandria (d. 215)
- Stromateis (190-210)

 Tertullian (c. 150-220)
- On Prayer or Prayer
- Patience

 Origen (ca. 185-254)
- On Prayer

 St. Cyprian (c. 200-258)
- On the Advantage of Patience
- On the Lord's Prayer

 St. Methodius of Olympus (d. 311)
- Oration on Simeon and Anna

 St. Athanasius (295-373)
- On the Incarnation
- Life of Antony

 St. Ephraim of Syria (c. 306-373)
- The Pearl
- Fifty-Five Chapters on the Beatitudes
- On Love, On Psalmody, On Prayer

 St. Cyril of Jerusalem (c. 315-386)
- Catechetical Lectures

 St. Basil (329-379)
- On the Holy Spirit
- Nine Homilies on the Six Days of Creation
- To Gregory the Theologian

 St. Jerome (320-420)
- On the Song of Songs

 St. Ambrose (340-397)
- On the Mysteries

 St. Gregory of Nazianzus (329-389)
- Second Paschal Oration

 St. Gregory of Nyssa (c. 335-395)
- Two Homilies on Almsgiving
- On Perfection
- Commentary on Ecclesiastes
- The Life of Gregory the Wonderworker

 St. Patrick (385-461)
- Confession

 St. John Chrysostom (347-407)
- The Easter Sermon of John Chrysostom
- Prayer of St. John Chrysostom

 Desert Fathers (4th century)
- Excerpts from The Paradise of the Desert Fathers
- From the Sayings of the Desert Fathers
- The Life of Our Holy Mother Mary of Egypt

 St. Augustine (354-430)
- Confessions
- Enchiridion
- On Christian Doctrine
- On the Sermon on the Mount
- An excerpt about prayer (from On the Sermon on the Mount)
- On Patience

 John Cassian (c.360-c.432)
- Conferences
- Institutes (on the monkÃ???s life)

 Sulpitius Severus (363-420)
- The Life of St. Martin

 St. Benedict of Nursia (480-547)
- Rule for Monasteries

 St. Columba (521-597)
- Rule of St. Columba

 St. Maximus the Confessor (580-662)
- On Knowledge

 Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite (late 5th-early 6th century)
- The Celestial Hierarchy
- The Mystical Theology

 St. Gregory the Great (c. 540-604)
- Dialogues, Book II (on the life and miracles of St. Benedict)
- Commentary on the Book of Job, Books I-V

 St. Sophronious (ca. 600)
- Life of St. Mary of Egypt

 Bernard of Clairvaux (1091-1153)
- On Loving God
- On the Song of Songs (excerpts)

 Guigo II (d. 1193)
- The Ladder of Four Rungs

 St. Bonaventure (1221-1274)
- Prayer after Holy Communion
- Journey of the Mind into God

 St. Albert the Great (1200-1280)
- On Cleaving to God

 St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)
- The Our Father

 Meister Eckhart (ca. 1260-1327)
- Sermons

 Anonymous (ca. 1260-1288)
- The Nine Ways of Prayer of St. Dominic

 Jordan of Saxony (1231-1234)
- The Libellus of Jordan of Saxony (An early history of the Dominicans)

 St. Francis of Assisi (1182-1226)
- The Canticle of Brother Son
- Praises of God Most High
- Exposition of the 'Our Father'
- An Exhortation to Praise God
- The Office of the Passion of the Lord
- A Prayer Before the Crucifix
- Rule of the Friars Minor
- Letters to St. Clare

 Anonymous Authors (1250-1390)
- The Little Flowers of St. Francis of Assisi

 St. Clare of Assisi (1194-1253)
- Letters
- Rule of St. Clare
- Testament

 St. Anthony of Padua (1195-1231)
- Sunday Sermons

 Jan van Ruusbroec (1293-1381)
- The Adornment of the Spiritual Marriage
- The Sparkling Stone
- The Book of Supreme Truth

 Henry Suso (c. 1295-1366)
- A Little Book of Eternal Wisdom

 Dante Aligheri (1265-1321)
- Inferno
- Paradiso
- Purgatorio

 Richard Rolle (1300-1349)
- The Fire of Love
- The Mending of Life or Rule of Living

 Johannes Tauler (1300-1365)
- The Inner Way

 Walter Hilton (d. 1396)
- The Scale (or Ladder) of Perfection or The Scale of Perfection
- The Song of Angels
- Treatise Written to a Devout Man

 Julian of Norwich (1343-1443)
- Revelations of Divine Love

 Catherine of Siena (c. 1347-1380)
- The Dialogue of the Seraphic Virgin Catherine of Siena
- Act of Thanksgiving to the Trinity (from the Dialogue on Divine Providence)

 Margery Kempe (c. 1430)
- The Book of Margery Kempe
- Treatise of Contemplation (from The Book of Margery Kempe)

 Anonymous English Author (14th-century)
- The Cloud of Unknowing or The Cloud of Unknowing

 Thomas a Kempis (1379-1471)
- The Imitation of Christ

 Girolamo Savonarola O.P (1452-1498)
- A Sermon on the Lord's Prayer

 St. Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556)
- The Spiritual Exercises
- Selected Letters and Instructions
- One Hundred Prayerful Thoughts (selections)
  Passages 1 - 25
  Passages 26 - 50
  Passages 51 - 75
  Passages 76 - 100

 Catherine of Genoa (1447-1510)
- Life and Doctrine of Catherine of Genoa
- Treatise on Purgatory
- Spiritual Dialogue in Three Parts 1, 2, 3

 Anonymous Authors (1521)
- The Cell of Self-Knowledge: Seven Early English Mystical Treatises (Includes works by Richard of St. Victor, Margery Kempe, Walter Hilton, and the author of The Cloud of Unknowing.)

 St. Peter of Alcantara (1499-1562)
- On the Fruit to be Derived from Prayer and Meditation

 St. Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)
- Autobiography
- Interior Castle
- Way of Perfection

 St. John of the Cross (1542-1591)
- Ascent of Mount Carmel.
- Counsels to a Religious
- Dark Night of the Soul
- The Living Flame of Love
- Sayings of Light and Love
- The Spiritual Canticle of the Soul and the Bridegroom Christ
- Poetry of St. John of the Cross

 St. Francis de Sales (1567-1622)
- Introduction to the Devout Life
- Treatise on the Love of God
- Sermons on Prayer
- Introduction to the Devout Life
- Mystical Exposition of the Canticle of Canticles
- On the First Verse of the Canticle of Canticles (sermon)
- On the Preacher and Preaching
- On the Transfiguration
- Pentecost
- On Simplicity (spiritual conference)
- Rules for Conversation (spiritual exercise)
- Exhortation to Clerics: That They Apply Themselves to Study

 St. Claude La Colombiere (1641-1682)
- Spiritual Retreats

 Francois Fenelon (1651-1715)
- Spiritual Progress
- Maxims of the Saints

 Jeanne Marie Guyon (1647-1717)
- Song of Songs of Solomon
- Spiritual Progress

 St. Louis de Montfort (1673-1716)
- True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary

 Brother Lawrence (1611-1691)
- The Practice of the Presence of God

 Alphonsus de Liguori (1696-1787)
- Uniformity to God's Will
- The Necessity and Power of Prayer
- Spiritual Reading

 Pierre de Caussade (d. 1751)
- Abandonment to Divine Providence

 St. John Vianney (1786-1859)
- Sermons (excerpts)

 Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)
- Poems

 Francis Thompson (1859-1907)
- The Hound of Heaven

 Ven. John Henry Newman (1801-1890)
- The Dream of Gerontius
- Meditations on Christian Doctrine
- God is All in All
- A Short Road to Perfection
- Meditations and Devotions

 St. Therese of Lisieux (1873-1897)
- Poems

 Blessed Columba Marmion (1858-1923)
- The Mysteries of the Rosary 
- Meditations on the Church Year

 St. Edith Stein (1891-1942)
- The Hidden Life: Meditations and Spiritual Texts

 St. Josemaria Escriva (1902-1975)
- Writings

 Dorothy Day (1897-1980)
- Writings