Catherine McAuley's Spiritual Reading and Prayers

Burke Savage, Roland . 1949. Catherine McAuley: The First Sister of Mercy (Dublin: M. H. Gill and Son).

Butler, Alban . 1866. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints, 12 vols. (Dublin: James Duffy). “John of God”, Vol. 3, 67-77; “Catherine of Siena”, Vol. 4, 304-14; “Catherine of Genoa”, Vol. 9, 141-44.

Corish, Patrick . 1985. The Irish Catholic Experience: A Historical Survey (Dublin: Gill and Macmillan).

Dean, Joseph Joy , ed. 1820. Devotions to the Sacred Heart of Jesus: Exercises for the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, Confession and Communion: Visits to the Blessed Sacrament… Trans. from the French (Dublin: Chambers and Hallagan).

Degnan, Mary Bertrand, R.S.M. 1957. Mercy Unto Thousands: Life of Mother Mary Catherine McAuley, Foundress of the Sisters of Mercy (Westminster, Maryland: Newman Press).

Gahan, William A. 1804. The Christian's Guide to Heaven: or, A Complete Manual of Catholic Piety, Fourteenth edition (Dublin: T. M'Donnel).

Gutierrez, Gustavo . 1973. A Theology of Liberation. Trans. eds. Caridad Inda and John Eagleson (Maryknoll: Orbis Books).

[Hartnett, Mary Vincent, R.S.M.] . 1864. The Life of Rev. Mother Catherine McAuley, Foundress of the Order of Mercy (Dublin: John Fowler).

Kerr, Donal, S.M. 1981. “The Early Nineteenth Century: Patterns of Change” in Michael Maher , ed., Irish Spirituality (Dublin: Veritas Publications), 135–44.

McAuley, Catherine. 1837. Rule and Constitutions of the Religious Sisters of Mercy, asamended and approved by Archbishop Daniel Murray, Dublin, 23 January 1837. Manuscript and fair copy in archives of the Sisters of Mercy of Dublin.

McAuley, Catherine 1868. A Little Book of Practical Sayings … of … Mother Mary Catherine McAuley (London: Burns, Oates and Co.).

McAuley, Catherine 1969. The Letters of Catherine McAuley. Ed. Mary Ignatia Neumann, R.S.M. (Baltimore: Helicon). Also contains Catherine's “Spirit of the Institute” essay and “Personal Act of Consecration”, pp. 385–93.

McAuley, Catherine 1989. The Correspondence of Catherine McAuley, 1827-1841. Ed. Mary Angela Bolster, R.S.M. (Cork and Ross: Congregation of the Sisters of Mercy, Dioceses of Cork and Ross).

Moore, Mary Clare. 1844-45. “Letters of Mother M. Clare Moore to [her sister] Sister M. Clare Augustine Moore”. Manuscripts in archives of the Sisters of Mercy of Dublin.

Muldrey, Mary Hermenia, R.S.M. 1984. “Mother McAuley and the Carmelites”, Carmel (November-December 1984), 21–24.

Rodriguez, Alonsus, S.J. 1806. The Practice of Christian and Religious Perfection. 3 vols. Trans, from the French copy of M. 1'Abbë Regnier des Marais (Kilkenny: John Reynolds). Catherine's “Spirit of the Institute” essay is a much abbreviated transcription of Rodriguez's First Treatise, “Of the end for which the Society of Jesus was instituted …”, Vol. 3, 5-85.

Rodriguez, Alonsus, S.J. 1929. Practice of Perfection and Christian Virtues. Ed. Joseph Rickaby, S.J. 3 vols. Newly translated from the original Spanish (Chicago: Loyola University Press). “Of Spiritual Reading”, Vol. 1, 388-97.

Sisters of Mercy, Bermondsey, London. 1849-50. “Life of Catherine McAuley”: entry in Bermondsey Annals for 1841. Archives of the Sisters of Mercy of Bermondsey, London, England.

Sullivan, Mary C, R.S.M. 1990. “Catherine McAuley's Theological and Literary Debt to Alonso Rodriguez: The 'Spirit of the Institute' Parallels”, Recusant History 20 (May 1990), 81–105.

Sullivan, Mary C, R.S.M. 1988. “A Contemporary Critique of the Christology of Catherine McAuley”. Unpublished master of theology dissertation. University of London.

Tanquerey, Adolphe, S.S. [1930]. The Spiritual Life: A Treatise on Ascetical and Mystical Theology. Trans. Herman Branderis, S.S. Second and revised edition (Tournai, Belgium: Desclëe and Co.).