The Way of Perfection by St. Teresa of Avila (Church Doctor)

Of all St. Teresa’s writings, The Way of Perfection is the most easily understood.

• PDF: http://sites.google.com/site/catholiclifetimereadingplan/file-cabinet/wayofperfection.pdf?attredirects=0 [US Letter, 128 pages]

Little Talks with God (aka The Dialogues) by St. Catherine of Siena (Church Doctor)

This looks relatively short and probably the most interesting thing that I haven't read yet.

• Text: http://www.cfpeople.org/Books/Dialog/cfptoc.htm
• Audio: http://www.archive.org/details/CathDialog1

St. Catherine of Siena
Doctor of the Church

The 25th child of a wool dyer in northern Italy, St. Catherine started having mystical experiences when she was only 6, seeing guardian angels as clearly as the people they protected. She became a Dominican tertiary (layperson, not a nun) when she was 16, and continued to have visions of Christ, Mary, and the saints. St. Catherine was one of the most brilliant theological minds of her day, although she never had any formal education. She persuaded the Pope to go back to Rome from Avignon, in 1377, and when she died she was endeavoring to heal the Great Western Schism. In 1375 Our Lord give her the Stigmata, which was visible only after her death. Her spiritual director was Blessed Raymond of Capua. St, Catherine's letters, and a treatise called "a dialogue" are considered among the most brilliant writings in the history of the Catholic Church. She died when she was only 33, and her body was found incorrupt in 1430. -- http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=9

Aquinas's Shorter Summa: Saint Thomas's Own Concise Version of His Summa Theologica by St. Thomas Aquinas (Church Doctor)

• http://www.op-stjoseph.org/Students/study/thomas/Compendium.htm

This book is also known as:

1. Compendium Theologiae: Compendium of Theology
2. Light of Faith: The Compendium of Theology
3. Aquinas's Shorter Summa: Saint Thomas's Own Concise Version of His Summa Theologica
4. Summa of the Summa (?)
   

I thought maybe Aquinas finished the shorter version of the Summa, but even that didn't happen. Now I want to see what's in the recently published titles and compare with some of the public domain stuff on the net.

The Compendium theologiae breaks off at this point. Death prevented St. Thomas from finishing the book. His opusculum, Expositio orationis dominicae, though probably a reportatio, gives us an idea of the plan he very likely would have followed in completing Part II of the Compendium. Part III, on the virtue of charity, was to have developed the theme indicated in the opening chapter of the present work, that we should carry out God’s will through love.

My Sister St. Therese by Sr. Genevieve of the Holy Face (Celine Martin)

This may be my favorite book overall. I like it even better than the autobiography, because it provides many practical examples of everyday life by Therese's best friend and sister, Celine. A little classic that is like a second Story of a Soul! Conversations, anecdotes of St. Therese, her teachings, hidden virtues and amusing remarks, etc -- recorded by her sister Celine in the convent. Shows the "Little Way" in practice in daily life.

Story of a Soul by St. Therese of Lisieux (Church Doctor)

This is a classic, and most catholic libraries will have multiple copies. St. Therese of Lisieux died at the age of 24 in 1897. Mother Therese of Calcutta named herself after her.

• PDF file [A4 paper] -- http://sites.google.com/site/catholiclifetimereadingplan/file-cabinet/StoryofaSoul.pdf?attredirects=0

By the Apostolic Letter Divini Amoris Scientia ("The Science of Divine Love") of October 19, 1997, Pope John Paul II declared her one of the thirty-three Doctors of the Universal Church, one of only three women so named (the others being Teresa of Avila (Saint Teresa of Jesus) and Catherine of Siena). Thérèse was the only saint to be given recognition as a Doctor of the Church during Pope John Paul II's pontificate. -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%A9r%C3%A8se_de_Lisieux