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The books written by Father Ignacio Larrañaga invite us, always, to improve as people and to create in us a great desire to know God.

Some of these books may not be available in English as yet, but they will all be translated eventually. Please be patient if the book you are interested in has not been translated yet.

To purchase any of these books please go to your favorite book store and ask them to order the books for you if they don't already have them. Help us get the wonderful teachings of Father Larrañaga into the hands of those hurting people that you know. His books will inspire them and can help them to regain or to strengthen their faith in the Lord and in themselves.

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SENSING YOUR HIDDEN PRESENCE  (Spanish & English)

This book offers a detailed collaboration to those readers that want to initiate or recuperate the experience of God and to those other that yearn to advance in the fathomless mystery of God. Sensing Your Hidden Presence reveals the total journey towards God, from the first steps until the bottomless depths of contemplation. This book analyzes the situations and emergencies which occur in our journey towards God: the silence of God, the certainty of Faith; dispersion and concentration; contemplation, the combat and the conflict between despair and hope. It teaches the reader how to achieve interior silence and what it is. In summary, the book clarifies the in understandable path of Grace until the Christifying transformation. It is a book born out of life! It offers to any Christian, a practical assistance in how to treat God.

This book has already been classified as a classic of spiritual literature.


ENCOUNTER  (Spanish & English)

This is a prayer handbook. It is concise and contains a great variety of prayers for every circumstance or emergency which life may bring. It offers diverse methods of relating to God as well as biblical texts and pedagogical guidelines for the person who prays actively. In short, it is a brief and complete manual for those who are beginning the journey towards God.


TRANSFIGURATION  (Spanish & English)

Father Larrañaga, a true spiritual master, leads the reader along this program for a changed life gradually and carefully with wisdom, prudence, and a sense of reality. Living the transfigured life is not only the ideal, but a possible and achievable plan of life.


PSALMS FOR LIFE  (Spanish Only)

This book is an intent to help the reader to comprehend that lengthy dialogue of man with God and of God with man; to comprehend the concrete situations in which were born, because in the psalms the passion of the world is sealed, histories of bloodshed and histories of love; moments of panic, exile, persecution, mystical experiences, fear of death and other fearful situations. Thus, in the words of the author, “It is urgent to begin the journey which will lead us to the interior of the psalms, navigate in it’s seas, fathom the richness of their abysms, fill one’s eyes with light, become contagious with life and afterwards come to the surface with our hands full of the richness and novelty of the psalms.”


FROM SUFFERING TO PEACE  (Spanish & English)

This book describes the relentless suffering which pursues men and women of every age, culture and religion. The author, after due analysis and diagnosis, proposes methods, practical exercises and other orientations to life so that the reader, by himself, can eliminate or ameliorate any suffering, or feelings of anguish, obsession, depression, sadness, anxiety or fear. Many psychiatrists recommend this book to their patients.


THE FORCES OF THE DECAY  (Spanish Only)

This book is a continuation and a complement of the book: “From Suffering to Peace”, one of the author’s books that has been translated into many languages and is available in many countries. In this book, Father Larrañaga places himself inside the mystery of the suffering man, which, when faced with situations of forgetfulness, tiredness, failure, anxiety, illness, pain, fear, loneness, old age and the perspective of death tries to understand the true mystery of God; a God that becomes impotent and weak in the world so as to be with us and assist us.


THE SENSE OF LIFE  (Spanish Only)

This book is a resume of “From Suffering to Peace”. It is written in simple language, direct and easy to read. It contains practical orientations that allow you to recuperate interior peace, the sense of life and the joy of living.

The author does not pretend the impossible dream of eliminating the roots of the pities of life, but he does intend to mitigate them, to pull the thorns, to heal some wounds, to wash away the tears so that the reader may finally feel in the cool shade of the tree so as to breathe, sleep and dream peacefully.


THE HAPPY MARRIAGE  (Spanish Only)

Every coexistence is subject to wear and tear. Love, as a human sentiment that is, is also subject to this malady. Love has a fleeing character: as life passes on, the charm of love lessens! It is only natural. What to do so that every morning is a different morning ? What to do so that one is not devoured by disenchantment? What to do so that marriage is a perpetual feast? What steps must be taken so as to avoid the domination-dependency syndrome install itself into the marriage relationship? What to do in order to eliminate the fundamental enemy of love which is egotism? What to do so that the flames of love remain always fully lit in spite of the dark nights of winter? What to do so as to crown with success the complex process of mutual adaptation? What to do in order to avoid that the couple live together but distantly? To all these questions this book tires to provide an answer! This book is written by one of the most reputable specialists in the difficult field of human relationship.


COME WITH ME  (Spanish & English)

This book analyzes the radical mystery of the human being; loneliness and relationship; the necessity to be oneself and to be what others expect. It helps the reader seek solutions to obstacles which divide us in human relationships; selfishness, emotional aggressiveness, megalomania, and all kinds of egocentricities. The author concludes this extensive study of the dynamics of human and interpersonal relationships with the themes of: respect, adaptation, acceptance, communication and forgiveness.


ITINERARY TOWARDS GOD  (Spanish Only)

Throughout the four chapters of this book (beginnings and constants of prayer; purification and penitent ascension; towards the encounter; prayer and life) the author describes the diverse phases of the journey towards God. From the first steps in which God leaves the initiative to the soul until the final heights in which the soul relativizes the psychological means which before used to be of help. It is God that slowly takes the initiative in this road that leads to a fullness of spiritual life.


THE ART OF BEING HAPPY  (Spanish Only)

A condensation of the book "From suffering to Peace", written in a simple, direct language and easy to read. With practical directions to recover inner Peace, the sense of life and the joy of iving.

The author does not teach an impossible dream to eliminate by root the pains of life, but to mitigate them, to take some thorns, to heal some wounds, to wipe away many tears so that the reader can finally rest in the fresh shade of the woods, to breathe, to sleep and to dream.


GOD INSIDE  (Spanish Only)

This treatise of Prayer offers the reader an effective assistance in order to initiate a conversation with the Lord and recuperate the enchantment of God. It is also very helpful for those that yearn to advance into the fathomless depths of the True and Living God.


THE POOR ONE OF NAZARETH  (Spanish & English)

This book is an original creation that offers the reader a rich and varied documental information, historical and doctrinal, without leaving elements of fiction, strictly based on the documentation of the New Testament.

The novelty of this book lies, above all, not in its documental value but rather in it’s testimonial character and in the originality of the treatise, which is inserted appropriately in the narrative iterature, transmitting to the reader with aplomb and efficacy the most substantial aspects of the message and life of Jesus.


THE SILENCE OF MARY  (Spanish & English)

This book leads the reader by the hand into the real image of the Mother of Jesus. All that is definite is in the silence. Silence that has been the trade mark of the personality of Mary (the spirituality of the anawim) and that in Mary’s case signifies availability and receptivity, fullness and fertility, fidelity and humanness.


BROTHER FRANCIS OF ASSISI  (Spanish & English)

This delightful book about St. Francis is pleasant to read. It is a story relived, a biography recreated, a living memory of Francis of Assisi from the depths of the author’s heart. It helps us find a model of life, a true happiness which is diametrically opposed to the hedonistic ideal of the consumer society.




THE FIRE AND THE ROSE (Spanish & English)

This book offers Father Ignacio Larrañaga’s own account of his life of faith. He synthesizes and reflects on the vital impulses that constitute turning points in his life of faith.


JUBILANT JUBILEE  (Spanish Only)

This commemorative book narrates the life of Father Ignacio Larrañaga from its beginnings; it is the celebration of his 50 years of Ordination.