I have several protestant bibles, including the New International Version, and several copies of what I call King Jimmy's Book (aka:kjv), and
Several Roman Catholic Bibles, in particular my favorites: The Revised Standard Version (4 or 5 copies), and the Douay-Rhiems Version (2 or 3 copies), as well as
The New Jerusalem Bible, and at least two copies of the New American Bible, one also being the St. Joseph Edition,
the "Missale Romanum {1962}",
several concordances, both protestant and Roman Catholic,
numerous books about and by Popes John Paul I and II, Benedict XVI, John XXIII, and one book about Popes John XXIII, John Paul II, and Paul VI entitled "Keeper of the Keys", and
at least 2 about Pope Pius XII whom I admire and love so much, and
one book about all the Popes, with a brief history of each, entiled "The
Vicars of Christ", and
a two volume study on the Psalms of King David,
2 or 3 on or about St. Thomas Aquinas, including "The Light of Faith", innumerable Bible study books, and
the two volume work entitled "Confessions" by St. Augustine, and
several about and by the late Trappist Monk Thomas Merton,
one about St. Therese of Lisieux, and, of course,
the Roman Catholic Catechism, and
the 4 volume "Liturgy of the Hours" which are a compilation of Biblical
readings and prayers read and recited by various orders of priests
and monks throughout the day, all year long, and
what might seem funny, but is Mark Twain's book on St. Joan of Arc,
which he himself says, "is worth all his other books put together"
since he was very learned in History and in St. Joan of Arc as one
if his particular interests.
And I have two GREAT books by Monsignor Romano
Guardini (1885-1968), an Italian born German priest
whose teaching skills earned him a newly created chair
(1923-1939; after he had been expelled by the Nazis)
at the University of Berlin as "professor for the philosophy
religion and Catholic Weltanschauung and very similar
positions at the University of Tubingen and the University
of Munich (1948-1963), and won him a reputation as one
of Germany's most remarkable and successful Catholic
educators, and his recognitions continue on. The books
are "The Lord", first published in 1954 (hardback and
softback: 535 pages) and having
received the Nihi Obstat and Imprimatur in the same year,
and "The Lord's Prayer", first published in 1932 (101
pages, softback)
And the incredibly great novel "Quo Vadis" ("Where art thou
going?"), written originally in 1909 as a story
published in a newspaper serial form and later that year
compiled into book form and winner of the Nobel Prize for
Literature. I can promise you that if you read this book
(489 pages), you'll swear you were walking with St. Peter
and The Apostles in and around Rome at and immediately
after the time of Christ. The author's name is Henryk
Sienkiewicz.
And "The Collected Works of St. John of the Cross: Revised
Edition" (1991); Institute of Carmelite Studies, Washington
D.C., 763 pages, hardback.
I could go on and on and on but it would take so long since I have one wall of my "library" built as a bookcase, from floor to ceiling, all the way across my "library", plus several other book cases both here in my "library" and in our living room and in my children's bedrooms, and one in the bathroom immediately next to my "library". I'd love to "inventory" it all for you but I hadn't planned on such a major undertaking, especially beginning around 10pm as it is now. And that's just the beginning of what I'd love to have. Oh, and I have my one copy of the Bible that I personally copied by hand with a ballpoint pen on looseleaf paper, and I have three other copies I'm in the middle of all across my desk. And the more I tell you about, the more I'm interested in "inventorying" my "library". It's a good one, if I do say so myself. God Bless you.