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.

 

Lead Like a Monk

Lead Like a Monk

Anselm Grün

$12.00

Internationally bestselling author and German monk Anselm Grün presents ancient wisdom for leadership today.Leadership is not about power, status, ...

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Domestic Monastery

Domestic Monastery

Ronald Rolheiser

$12.99

What is a monastery? A monastery is a place set apart—a place to learn the blessings of powerlessness, and that time is not ours but God’s. Our hom...

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$12.99
Centering Prayer

Centering Prayer

Brian D. Russell

$17.99

A new, but ancient, way to pray can turn your life around. Discover how to experience God’s love at your core, freeing you to love others, and even...

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$17.99
Stability

Stability

Nathan Oates

$17.99

What is the foundation of work that lasts?  As Christians in a hypermobile culture, most of the time we talk about going and doing, about the need ...

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$17.99
Franciscan Lectio

Franciscan Lectio

Dan Riley OFM

$22.00

Franciscan Lectio is for all those on a spiritual journey who long to see the world more beautifully and deeply and become more attentive and prese...

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$22.00
Flunking Sainthood Every Day

Flunking Sainthood Every Day

Jana Riess

$19.99

In her memoir, Flunking Sainthood, Riess failed twelve different spiritual practices over the course of a year but discovered to her surprise that ...

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$19.99
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
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
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
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
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
Dinner Party with the Saints

Dinner Party with the Saints

Woodeene Koenig-Bricker

$17.99

Welcome to a dinner party in heaven. With a charming blend of imagination and historical detail, the bestselling author of 365 Saints invites you t...

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$17.99
Via Dolorosa

Via Dolorosa

Martin Shannon CJ

$8.99

Based on early Christian practice, pilgrims to Jerusalem reconstructed the events of Good Friday along the “Way of Suffering,” the Via Dolorosa. Th...

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$8.99
Cloud Devotion

Cloud Devotion

David G. Robinson

$18.99

A personal invitation to walk with God through one of the great classics of Christian spirituality. This book of daily devotions is based upon The ...

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$18.99
Amid Passing Things

Amid Passing Things

Jeremiah Myriam Shryock

$15.99

Amid Passing Things is a collection of meditations on all the ways God enters our lives, even when we're unaware. Based on his own life experiences...

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$15.99
Living the Mass

Living the Mass

Christopher Lucas OCSO

$10.99

In Living the Mass we encounter the Holy Eucharist as paschal mystery, the “Source and Summit of the Christian Life.” We encounter God’s love for u...

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$10.99
Game Plan

Game Plan

Nic Gibson

$15.99

College is a time of discovery. Are you ready for what lies ahead? How will your faith fare when you enter the new wide world of college – leaving ...

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$15.99
Abba, Give Me a Word

Abba, Give Me a Word

L. Roger Owens

$17.99

“I challenge you to get through a chapter of this book without a desire for God being struck in your soul. Roger Owens wears his brilliance lightly...

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Holy Thirst

Holy Thirst

Editors at Paraclete Press

$18.99

These saints have spoken to the hearts of millions. They’ve helped many on the way to understanding the role of God in their lives. In this collect...

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$18.99
Putting Joy Into Practice

Putting Joy Into Practice

Phoebe Farag Mikhail

$16.99

Putting Joy into Practice: Seven Ways to Lift Your Spirit from the Early Church is an invitation to a life of joy. Phoebe Farag Mikhail explains w...

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$16.99
Practical Holiness

Practical Holiness

Albert Haase, OFM

$15.99

Good spiritual directors can be difficult to come by; this book offers Pope Francis to be yours. Ever wonder what advice the Pope would give you to...

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$15.99
He Ascended into Heaven

He Ascended into Heaven

Tim Perry

$18.99

To miss the meaning of the Ascension is to miss what God wants from us today  “I hope you’ll now join me alongside a group of baffled disciples squ...

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$18.99
The Catholic Heart Day by Day

The Catholic Heart Day by Day

Richard Beyer

$21.00

You are not alone on this pilgrimage of faith These stories of grace and courage will find their way into your heart each morning. They may even i...

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$21.00
A Companion Guide to The Jesus Creed

A Companion Guide to The Jesus Creed

Scot Mcknight

$8.99

According to Jesus, the spiritually formed person is the one who loves God and who loves others. This Companion Guide enables the reader to anchor ...

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$8.99
God Alone Is Enough

God Alone Is Enough

Claudia Mair Burney

$18.99

No one can teach a Christian to pray, like Teresa can.This lively little book introduces postmodern readers to one of Christianity’s most endearing...

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$18.99
Pray for Others in Color
Coming Soon

Pray for Others in Color

Paraclete Press

$11.99

How often do we say “I’ll pray for you” and forget to offer a prayer? Or rattle off a name in prayer without feeling much if any connection to it. ...

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$11.99
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How to Pray with the Bible

How to Pray with the Bible

Page McKean Zyromski

$15.99

Discover how to put the words of Scripture to use in your life. If you’re looking for a personal and practical way to draw the Bible more intimatel...

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$15.99
Horses Speak of God

Horses Speak of God

Laurie M. Brock

$16.99

This is what happens when a writer, preacher, and lover of words encounters some of creation’s wisest theologians…horses. First, she argues with t...

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$16.99
Forgiveness

Forgiveness

Paula Huston

$17.99

Are you able to forgive those who have hurt you? If you find it difficult to forgive, this book is your encouragement. If you’re having trouble acc...

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$17.99
I Loved Jesus in the Night

I Loved Jesus in the Night

Paul Murray

$16.99

I Loved Jesus in the Night is one priest's compelling account of meeting with the Saint of Calcutta. Sharing anecdotes and first-hand experiences, ...

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$16.99
The Yearning Life

The Yearning Life

Regina Walton

$21.00

“These are meditative poems that seem to rise from a long and deep looking at life, in its most ordinary and familiar moments.  They invite us into...

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$21.00
Letters to Jacob

Letters to Jacob

John Julian OJN

$7.99

For thirty years, Fr. John-Julian has practiced contemplative prayer daily as a monk of the Order of Julian of Norwich. The book is a record of let...

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$7.99
Vulnerable Faith

Vulnerable Faith

Jamie Arpin-Ricci

$16.99

Patrick of Ireland lived a Christian life beyond the ordinary – that’s why we call him a saint. But Jamie Arpin-Ricci contends that, although St. P...

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$16.99
The Jesus Creed

The Jesus Creed

Scot McKnight

$17.99

“Make sure this new guide for living is on your shelf.” —Max Lucado  This 15th anniversary of the bestselling classic The Jesus Creed invites us t...

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$17.99
Keeping Company with Saint Ignatius

Keeping Company with Saint Ignatius

Luke Larson

$19.99

When Luke Larson and his wife Evie embarked on a 500-mile pilgrimage across northern Spain, their purpose was to experience walking as a way of kee...

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$19.99
Praying with Your Whole Heart

Praying with Your Whole Heart

Saint Augustine

$13.99

This is a collection of four distinct but united voices on the subject of how to pray, and how to reach a deeper level of intimacy with God in your...

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$13.99
Humble Thyself Before the Lord

Humble Thyself Before the Lord

Thomas A. Kempis

$11.99

It is not easy to write about the importance of Christian humility. How does one exhort others to be humble, without sounding boastful oneself? The...

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$11.99
Three Ways of Loving God

Three Ways of Loving God

Saint Augustine

$16.99

This book is deceptively simple. It is a collection of three distinct but united voices on the subject of how to love God, and how to be loved by G...

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$16.99
Freedom and Forgiveness

Freedom and Forgiveness

Paul Farren

$9.99

In Freedom & Forgiveness: A Fresh Look at the Sacrament of Reconciliation, Father Farren examines the history of the Sacrament of Reconciliatio...

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$9.99
Doors to the Sacred

Doors to the Sacred

Sr. Bridget Haase, OSU

$16.99

Through her unique gift for storytelling, combined with profound spiritual insight, Sr. Bridget Haase's Doors to the Sacred will invite readers to ...

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$16.99
Strangers to the City

Strangers to the City

Michael Casey

$17.99

Michael Casey, a monk and scholar who has been publishing his wise teachings on the Rule of St. Benedict for decades, turns to the particular Bened...

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$17.99
Sacred Compass

Sacred Compass

J. Brent Bill

$17.99

"Brent Bill has written one of the finest books on discernment and divine guidance that I have seen in a very long time." —Richard J. Foster How do...

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$17.99

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