Books

Feeding Your Family's Soul: Dinner Table Spirituality has won second prize in the Family Life category from the Catholic Press Association!​Feeding...

Written for 7-11 year olds, this playful guide appeals to kids who want to know more about what adults are telling them is a serious time. Without ...

Many readers think that Emily Dickinson rejected religion and wanted nothing to do with God. And yet her poetry and life tell a deeper story. Looki...

From the bestselling author of My Baptism Book comes an essential guide to the guideposts of the Christian journey: The Ten Commandments by Sophie...

"A deeply inspiring overview of the grand epic of cosmic, biological, and cultural evolution written for Christians and grounded in scientific ...

C.S. Lewis built his illuminating story of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader around the Christian journey: from resisting God's grace to discovering t...

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...

Have you stood in front of a painting and thought, What does this mean?The Art of Faith answers this question again and again, with insight, wit, a...

In this engaging guide, M. Basil Pennington takes us on a retreat with Thomas Merton, in Merton's own Kentucky hermitage, reading his writings on t...

Would you like to not just go to Mass, but learn to live the Eucharist? Now comes a clear and compassionate voice of encouragement, reflection, and...

Strong, resilient, and deeply loyal, Dottie Connell farms her family’s three hundred acres in rural Ohio alone, having sacrificed love and family f...

“May the Lord grant us all the hope of being saints.” Pope Francis recently shared this prayer with the world – and that includes kids. You, too, c...

Two friends teach the world to see people by the only thing that really matters...the heart.​   This is the story of two special friends, a girl a...

Too often, the noises and pressures of the world drown out the still, small voice of our heavenly Father. This little book will help Catholic famil...

This is what happens when a writer, preacher, and lover of words encounters some of creation’s wisest theologians…horses. First, she argues with ...

A picture book to guide the reader through different emotions and reactions related to grieving.   The text and illustrations of this lushly color...

As an award-winning author, host of EWTN’s “Everyday Blessings for Catholic Moms,” and mother of five, Donna-Marie Cooper O’Boyle is well aware of ...

A daily reader of very simple and often quite direct reflections by Benedictine monk Anselm Grün, this Advent devotional offers the reader an oppo...

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...

“A stunner...every sentence is a feast for the senses.” —Rachel Held Evans When you have an experience and tell the story of that experience to som...

"To be in love and yet not to love, to live by faith and yet not to believe. To spend myself and yet to be in total darkness."—Teresa of CalcuttaI...

Look! A Child’s Guide to Advent and Christmas presents Advent as special time for waiting and watching—paying attention—to the ways God comes to u...

“If rhyme and meter are, as Heaney said, the table manners of the language arts, then Angela Alaimo O’Donnell has set out a sumptuous feast, if not...

“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...

The act of writing poetry, for Sofia Starnes, is a “getting out of the way” so that a poem might occur, a poem that must itself become a place of ...

Rooted in the grit of urban Baltimore and the forests of rural Massachusetts, these poems remind us that life’s tensions and polarities are energie...

Excerpted in Image Magazine – No. 90 This collection of poems explores the saints of the church’s history and contemporary persons who embody somet...

What Will Soon Take Place is an imaginative journey through the book of Revelation. It offers a poet’s view of the prophetic, not in the sense of ...

Try counting your blessings in color! There is now scientific evidence that that simple act of regularly counting your blessings (big and small) w...

Includes original illustrations from the1843 edition by “The Man Who Invented Christmas” — Charles Dickens! Paraclete Press offers a charming gift ...

“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.” 1 Corinthians 13:4 (NIV) Carefully chosen quotes from Mahatm...

In the tradition of The St. Francis Prayer Book, Jon Sweeney offers an ancient-medieval way of understanding and experiencing the Gospel: the Holy ...

In this bold new book Peter Rollins presents a vision of faith that has little regard for the institutions of Christendom. His uncompromising criti...

Zeal and excitement are a part of every child. This picture book celebrates a young boy’s enthusiasm to put into practice the words of Christ: to f...

Poet and literature professor Scott Cairns ran headlong into his midlife crisis — a fairly common experience among men nearing the age of fifty—whi...

The Complete Francis of Assisi offers the best introduction to St. Francis yet available between two covers.  There are many editions of the writi...

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...

Join poets and novelists from across the centuries as you travel through the liturgical seasons of Lent, Holy Week, and Eastertide. With the popula...

Teresa of Avila articulated for all of us the wondrous interior landscape of prayer. Journey with her through a week of prayer and meditation. Pray...

ECPA Easter Bestseller 2024!How can we help children approach Lent in a way that is meaningful, with generosity, helping others, and “making room” ...

Scott Cairns has carefully preserved every poem he’s ever published that he cares to preserve. He’s also added previously unpublished work, spannin...

Spiritual teacher, writer, rabbi and poet, Rami Shapiro has taught thousands of people in workshops across North America for a quarter century. His...

This bold, fresh look at the historical Jesus and the Jewish roots of Christianity challenges both Jews and Christians to re-examine their understa...

“Jack Levison studies, meditates, prays and writes of the place of the Holy Spirit in our lives with more skill and understanding than anyone I kn...

The Christian mystical tradition has its roots in Holy Scripture but was enunciated most clearly by the late 5th century author writing under the n...

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...

Once there was a town called Chelm where there was no luck. If something could go wrong, it did. The roofs of the houses always leaked. The sidewal...

As a young roach, Francesca was warned against churches. They were disgustingly clean, barren of food, although sometimes you might find leftover r...