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.

 

Looking from the Precipice

Looking from the Precipice

Botrus Mansour

$17.99

A view from Nazareth for the future of Christianity.​ In our deeply troubled times, a message of hope comes from the tiny village of Nazareth . . ....

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$17.99
Essential Lenten Prayers

Essential Lenten Prayers

Editors at Paraclete Press

$10.99

A companion book for anyone observing the Christian season of Lent, with prayers and practices from a variety of denominations and traditions. Begi...

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$10.99
To You All Hearts Are Open

To You All Hearts Are Open

Scot McKnight

$14.99

 The most ancient form of prayer is probably petition. Scot McKnight has set out to understand this better, and guide pray-ers and churches to rein...

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$14.99
40 Days with God

40 Days with God

Kent Hickey

$15.99

How much time is enough to be with God? While it could be the 40 days or years used so often in the Bible, it’s also possible that simply stealing ...

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$15.99
The Church of the Transfiguration

The Church of the Transfiguration

Community of Jesus

$69.95

The Church of the Transfiguration is a contemporary expression of fourth-century basilican architecture. The more than 200 photographs in this boo...

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$69.95
Christ the Life

Christ the Life

Thomas L. Martin

$22.00

The Life of Christ As It’s Never Been Told BeforeEvery scene, in wondrous prose, comes to life anew in this powerful book.How might a literary arti...

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$22.00
Before Margaret Met the Pope

Before Margaret Met the Pope

Jon M. Sweeney

$11.99

"Before Margaret met the Pope, she lived on the streets of Rome. She was a small cat in one of the busiest, most crowded, cities in all Europe. Rom...

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$11.99
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
Love's Immensity

Love's Immensity

Scott Cairns

$19.00

One of America's finest living poets has breathed new life into the early Christian mystics. From Saint Paul to Julian of Norwich, the original tex...

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$19.00
Litany of Flights

Litany of Flights

Laura Reece Hogan

$21.00

Winner of the 2020 Paraclete Poetry Prize, Litany of Flights is a luminous examination of the journey of the soul, from moments of loss to moments ...

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$21.00
Thérèse

Thérèse

Sarah Law

$21.00

In this collection, poet Sarah Law presents lucid, lyrical reflections on the much-loved saint, Thérèse of Lisieux (1873-97), whose life and writin...

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$21.00
Amazing Nearness

Amazing Nearness

Fr. Tadeusz Dajczer

$17.99

Father Tadeusz Dajczer wants you to discover the joy and profound gift that comes when we truly encounter Jesus in the Eucharist.

$17.99
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

"An ideal gift and very highly recommended for all parents in the Christian community wanting to memorialize the baptism of their child, Let's Reme...

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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 YOU!Awarded the Catholic Writers Guild "Seal of Approval" With engaging prose and delightful illustrations, I'm a Sai...

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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

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