Hello everyone! I am a 18 years old Catechumena from Italy and have just discovered this forum, which seems pretty active to me. Hope to bond with you all and learn more about the faith! Any books I could read about saints or about the religion or other bibliography you recommend? What are your favourite saints? Mine are Hildegard von Bingen, Teresa d’Avila and Queen Esther and Jeanne d’Arc
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Welcome! That is awesome that you are a Catechumena. I have never been to Italy. I have a customer who visits there every other month. She has family there.
My favorite Saints are Saint Maximillian Kolbe, Venerable Fulton J. Sheen, and Venerable Augustus Tolton, to name a few.
As far as books go, my favorite recommendations are Dr. Scott Hohn’s “A Father Who Keeps His Promises: God’s Covenant Love in Scripture” and the “Surprised by Truth” series.
Trent Horn’s books are pretty good to. I still need to finish “Counterfeit Christs: Finding the Real Jesus Among the Impostors.”
C.S. Lewis’ “Mere Christianity” is also great!
The Big Green Catechism of the Catholic Church is a great companion to the Bible. You can look up verses in the appendix and see where the Catechism references these.
My new favorite App is Catena, which has many references to the Early Church Fathers when you click on any Biblical verse. This has been a great help when studying the Scriptures.
Glad you are here and God Bless.
Welcome. My favorite saints are Thomas More, Gus Tolton, and Marianne Cope (I wrote a play about her).
Steve Dunham
Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania, USA
Welcome,am new also to this site, but your reading is great, St. Therese of child Jesus is my favorite, Teresa d’Avila is also very nice, have you read the city of God Mary of Agreda?
hy ! i’m also new to this forum !
this forum also seem pretty active, tho maybe need more members to make it more active
nice to know you all, btw !
Welcome.
Why do you put a space between words and closing punctuation. And why do you not capitalize the first letter of a sentence? Did you go to government school or were you home schooled? Just curious : )
and why you noticed all of those..?
and why you put a space in your smiley..?
and i go to govt school.. a special one for the MI6 agents.. hehe 
Because if you don’t put a space between the eyes and the mouth it looks like he has no nose ; )
but there’s still no nose on that thing!
lol
You sound like an atheist who doesn’t believe in God, because you can’t see Him. Trust me, there is a nose.
**"**Jesus said to him, “Away from me, Satan!”
Mat 4 : 10a