, by Fr. Jacques Philippe, should be at the top of your to-buy list. There are lots of good books on prayer (Fr. Thomas Dubay's Prayer Primer: Igniting a Fire Within
, for example), but Time for God may be the best I have found. It is a quick read (108 pp., counting the two brief appendices) and clearly written, but it leaves out nothing that an aspiring pray-er might need to know. I've read quite a few books on prayer and still learned some new things, or at least I was reminded of things I had forgotten.Reading the book won't make prayer simple. Even reading the book and applying it won't do that. But reading it and applying it will get you moving on the path of holiness.
