Books

Paraclete Press books explore the richness and depth of what it means to be a Christian. While Benedictine spirituality is at the heart of what we do, our books reflect the Christian experience across many cultures, time periods, and houses of worship.

 

The Story of St. Francis of Assisi

The Story of St. Francis of Assisi

Timothy Verdon

$24.99

"The grace of God, our savior, in these last days appeared in his servant Francis to all who are truly humble and truly friends of holy poverty." B...

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$24.99
Holy Spirit, I Pray

Holy Spirit, I Pray

Jack Levison

$13.99

Whether your spiritual life is in shambles or your faith is robust, whether you attend church or not, are angry at God or resting in God's embrace,...

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$13.99
The Rule of Saint Benedict

The Rule of Saint Benedict

St. Benedict of Nursia

$15.99

Discussion around the bestseller The Benedict Option by Rod Dreher has led many people to want to know more about Benedictine principles.​​​​​​​ L...

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$15.99
Revelations of Divine Love

Revelations of Divine Love

Julian of Norwich

$17.99

Revelations of Divine Love, the first book ever written in English by a woman, is dense, deeply intuitive, and theologically complex. The last thir...

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$17.99
Talking With God

Talking With God

Francois Fenelon

$17.99

François Fénelon was a seventeenth-century French Catholic archbishop who rose to a position of influence in the court of Louis XIV. He became a w...

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$17.99
Art and Prayer

Art and Prayer

Timothy Verdon

$29.99

Prayer is natural for human beings, a spontaneous impulse common in all people. Yet, beyond instinct, there is a kind of prayer that’s conscious an...

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$29.99
Soul Unfinished

Soul Unfinished

Robert Atwell

$18.99

"There is a warm and confident practicality in Atwell's teaching. He is the grandparent one always wanted, and the fellow adventurer who understan...

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$18.99
Margaret's First Holy Week

Margaret's First Holy Week

Jon M. Sweeney

$9.99

The story of Margaret and her friend the Pope continues with Book 3 in The Pope’s Cat series.   This adventure has Margaret experiencing the praye...

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$9.99
A School of Embodied Poetics

A School of Embodied Poetics

Scott Cairns

$5.99

Cairns has long insisted upon poetics that appreciate words as more than signs pointing to other matter, as more than names for things. He has insi...

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$5.99
Let's Remember Your Baptism

Let's Remember Your Baptism

Editors at Paraclete Press

$15.99

“This child has been reborn in Baptism. This is now a child of God.” So begins this beautiful, illustrated book for memories and reflections of a d...

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$15.99
Cornered by the Dark

Cornered by the Dark

Harold J. Recinos

$19.00

“Cornered by the Dark is a triumph.” —Junot Díaz, author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar WaoW. H. Auden, Jorge Luis Borges, Howard Thurman, Jul...

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$19.00
Good Enough

Good Enough

Wendi Nunnery

$17.99

You’ve checked all the boxes. You’ve followed all the rules.   But something has still gone terribly wrong.   This is where Wendi Nunnery—Jesus fol...

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$17.99
Prayerfully Waiting

Prayerfully Waiting

Donna-Marie Cooper O'Boyle

$15.99

A grandmother’s prayers are of significant importance through every age and stage of a grandchild’s development! These prayers are amazing and love...

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$15.99
My Year With the Saints

My Year With the Saints

Peter Celano

$16.99

“May the Lord grant us all the hope of being saints.” Pope Francis recently shared this prayer with the world. We can all become saints. We just ha...

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$16.99
The Wisdom of Wild Grace

The Wisdom of Wild Grace

Christine Valters Paintner

$20.00

At the core of this collection are 30 poems inspired by the stories of kinship between saints and animals. They come mostly from the early Christia...

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$20.00
Pilgrim Walks in Franciscan Italy

Pilgrim Walks in Franciscan Italy

Johannes Jorgensen

$18.00

There is no book quite like this if you know a little bit about St. Francis and want to know more. Each chapter describes a pilgrimage to a place i...

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$18.00
The City is My Monastery

The City is My Monastery

Richard Carter

$19.99

In the midst of an established monastic life, Richard Carter answered a new call, leaving his life of 15 years in the Melanesian Brotherhood to ans...

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$19.99
She Made Me Laugh

She Made Me Laugh

Stephanie Emmons

$16.99

Most people likely know of Mother Teresa’s great faithfulness to God’s call as she started her ministry to the poor in Calcutta. But at the time, f...

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$16.99
The Generosity

The Generosity

Luci Shaw

$20.00

"Rejoice, readers, as you receive the generosity of Luci Shaw's 76 new grace-infused parable poems. Autobiography once more merges with theology as...

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$20.00
The Sunrise of the Soul

The Sunrise of the Soul

Gerard Thomas Straub

$19.99

The Sunrise of the Soul is the fruit of the last 24 years of an unexpected new life and a journey of transformation that took Gerry Straub from the...

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$19.99
I'm a Saint in the Making

I'm a Saint in the Making

Lisa M. Hendey

$14.99

God has a special mission for each of us! With engaging prose and delightful illustrations, I'm a Saint in the Making reminds children of their uni...

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$14.99
Sweet Polly Petals

Sweet Polly Petals

John Gray

$15.99

This is a fairy tale set, not in some far away mystical land but, in any town USA. The hero is a little girl named Polly who loves going to the par...

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$15.99
Song of Songs

Song of Songs

Margaret Shepherd

$30.00

Song of Songs is a unique book of the Bible that has delighted its readers for centuries, while at the same time challenging artists, theologians, ...

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$30.00
An Advent Book of Days

An Advent Book of Days

Gregory Kenneth Cameron

$16.99

A Book of Days to nurture and inspire your soul this Advent From December 1 to December 25, Gregory Kenneth Cameron invites you to partake in a dai...

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$16.99

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