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
Wings of Healing

Wings of Healing

J. Wilmer Gresham

$16.99

After an extraordinary mission of healing took place in the 1920s at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, many small prayer circles were formed to car...

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$16.99
The Royal Way of the Cross

The Royal Way of the Cross

Francois Fenelon

$16.99

"It is very profitable to have realized what one is; but do not add to that weakness, which is inseparable from our human nature, an estrangement f...

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$16.99
The Mystery of Love

The Mystery of Love

Cardinal Basil Hume

$15.99

How do we find God in a busy and noisy world? The Mystery of Love is a collection of "starting points" to inspire prayer and meditation, by one of ...

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$15.99
Clare of Assisi

Clare of Assisi

Wendy Murray

$19.99

Clare of Assisi is generally known as “the female friend” of Saint Francis of Assisi and for centuries her legacy has remained obscured by his shad...

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$19.99
Recital of Love

Recital of Love

Keren Dibbens-Wyatt

$16.99

"I love reading Keren's work and her new book Recital of Love encourages us to experience the mystical beauty of Divine Love, something we all need...

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$16.99
The Neglected C.S. Lewis

The Neglected C.S. Lewis

Mark Neal

$24.00

Readers who can quote word for word from C.S. Lewis’s theological classic, Mere Christianity, or his science fiction novel, Perelandra, have ofte...

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$24.00
Looking For the King

Looking For the King

David C. Downing

$17.99

It is 1940, and American Tom McCord, a 23-year-old graduate student, is in England researching the historical evidence for the legendary King Arthu...

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$17.99
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
Exploring this Terrain

Exploring this Terrain

Margaret B. Ingraham

$21.00

Margaret B. Ingraham’s collection Exploring this Terrain bids the reader to join her in a journey of discovery. In a world in which speed is increa...

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$21.00
Andalusian Hours

Andalusian Hours

Angela Alaimo O'Donnell

$20.00

Andalusian Hours: Poems from the Porch of Flannery O’Connor is a collection of 101 sonnets that channel the voice of celebrated fiction writer, Fla...

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$20.00
Wild Hope

Wild Hope

Gayle Boss

$19.99

From the bestselling author of All Creation Waits — a beautiful book for Lent.Pangolins and polar bears, olms, lemurs, and leopards. We share this ...

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$19.99
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
Reclaiming Sundays

Reclaiming Sundays

Donna-Marie Cooper O'Boyle

$16.99

Best-selling Catholic author Donna-Marie Cooper O’Boyle encourages Catholic families to reclaim a significant tradition: setting apart Sundays as a...

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$16.99
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
Why Do We Have to Be So Quiet in Church?

Why Do We Have to Be So Quiet in Church?

Clare Simpson

$12.99

Wiggly kids may have this book in church! This fun book is meant to accompany a child to church – or sit in the pews waiting for him or her. Explor...

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$12.99
Margaret and the Pope Go to Assisi

Margaret and the Pope Go to Assisi

Jon M. Sweeney

$10.99

In this fourth installment of "The Pope's Cat" series, Margaret and the Pope travel for the first time together away from the Vatican and out of Ro...

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$10.99
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
Drawing God

Drawing God

Karen Kiefer

$18.99

Picasso's artistic inspiration takes hold of young Emma's faith imagination in this beautifully illustrated debut picture book about how we all see...

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$18.99
Wing Over Wing

Wing Over Wing

Julie Cadwallader Staub

$21.00

Wing Over Wing clears a path in the midst of everyday life to reveal the holy—whether catching fireflies at night, waiting at a bus stop, or experi...

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$21.00
This Far

This Far

Kathleen O'Toole

$21.00

This collection offers a rich harvest taken from one season in the poet’s creative life. Like movements in a musical composition, these poems share...

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$21.00
Saints at Heart

Saints at Heart

Bert Ghezzi

$14.99

Saints at Heart presents an engaging picture of the spiritual life as shown in the experience and writings of the saints. The title announces the b...

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$14.99

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