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Dear Catholic Spiritual Direction Friends,

In a recent conversation with Father John Bartunek, he suggested that we group all of our recommend book resources in a way that might be more meaningful and helpful to you. So, we have updated the resource page for you. Here are the questions the various resources can help you with:

How can I better understand spiritual direction?
How can I deepen my understanding of the spiritual life and how to grow in it?
How can I better learn how to deal with the challenges of life?

Before you check out the new page, we humbly ask that you make some purchases of these materials through the links provided. These purchases generate just enough credit to keep the new books coming for review for you!

Here’s the link to the new RECOMMENDED RESOURCES page.

Seek Him – Find Him – Follow Him,

Dan

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Dan Burke

Dan Burke is the past President and C.O.O. of EWTN's worldwide news
network. He is presently the founder and President of the Avila Institute for Spiritual Formation, which offers graduate and personal enrichment studies in spiritual theology to priests, deacons, religious, and laity in 90 countries and prepares men for seminary in over 40 dioceses.

Dan is the author and editor of numerous books on authentic Catholic spirituality and hosts the Divine Intimacy Radio show with his wife, Stephanie, which is broadcast weekly on EWTN Radio. Past episodes can be found, along with thousands of articles on the interior life, at SpiritualDirection.com.

In his deep commitment to the advancement of faithful Catholic spirituality, he is also the founder of Apostoli Viae, a world-wide, private association of the faithful dedicated to living and advancing the authentic spiritual patrimony of the Church.

Most importantly, Dan is a blessed husband, father of four, grandfather of one—and grateful to be Catholic.

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