The Seven Storey Mountain (Thomas Merton)

Dig into the rich tradition of Catholic literature with these significant and influential books recommended by Bishop Barron. These titles have transformed cultures and have proven indispensable to those seeking to encounter God, as revealed in Jesus Christ through His Church. Each book is elegantly bound and include a ribbon bookmark and a foreword by Bishop Barron.

When Thomas Merton’s spiritual autobiography was first published in 1948, it was an unlikely candidate for a best-selling book. But less than one hundred years later, this account of his conversion to Catholicism has sold millions of copies and has been hailed as a modern-day version of Augustine’s Confessions.

The Seven Storey Mountain is fundamentally about the triumph of God’s grace in one man’s life, a story of an imperfect individual whose search for meaning led him to a Trappist monastery. Honest and incisive, it is a personal testament to the life-changing reality of encountering the divine.