Fr. Callistus' Suggested Reading List

Into Your Hands, Father: Abandoning Ourselves to the God Who Loves Us 
Fr. Wilfred Stinissen, Carmelite Priest

In this book I learned that God means something with all that happens to us and thus invites us to live in openness and wakefulness so that He can give us insight into the meaning when He wills. But we must abandon ourselves into His hands, as Jesus Himself abandons Himself into the hands of His heavenly father. There are degrees of abandonment:

1.  Accepting and assenting to God's will as it manifests itself in all circumstances of life.
2.  Actively doing God's will at every moment of our lives.
3.  Become a tool in God's hands. At this stage it is no longer that we do God's will but God who accomplishes His will through us.

Searching for and Maintaining Peace: A Small Treatise on Peace of Heart
Fr. Jacque Phillippe

From the book's Preface - Our day and age is one of agitation and inquietude. This tendency, evident in the daily life of our contemporaries, also manifests itself frequently in the domain of Christian and spiritual life. Our search for God, for saintliness, and our efforts to love and serve our neighbors are also frequently fraught with agitation and anxiety instead of being full of confidence and peace, as they should be if we were to find ourselves imbued with the attitude of small children, as the Gospels command us.