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.

 

Feeding Your Family's Soul

Feeding Your Family's Soul

Donna-Marie Cooper O'Boyle

$15.99

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

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$15.99
Lenten Survival Guide for Kids

Lenten Survival Guide for Kids

Peter Celano

$7.99

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 ...

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$7.99
I Told My Soul to Sing

I Told My Soul to Sing

Kristin LeMay

$17.99

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...

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$17.99
The Ten Commandments

The Ten Commandments

Sophie Piper

$14.99

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

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$14.99
Seven Glorious Days

Seven Glorious Days

Giberson W. Karl

$17.99

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

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$17.99
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
The Art of Faith

The Art of Faith

Judith Couchman

$24.99

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...

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$24.99
The Mystery of Faith

The Mystery of Faith

Tadeusz Dajczer

$16.99

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...

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$16.99
This Heavy Silence

This Heavy Silence

Nicole Mazzarella

$18.99

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

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$18.99
My Year with the Saints for Kids

My Year with the Saints for Kids

Peter Celano

$14.99

“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...

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$14.99
Keller's Heart

Keller's Heart

John Gray

$12.99

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...

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$12.99
Catholic Family Prayers

Catholic Family Prayers

Paraclete Press

$11.99

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...

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$11.99
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
My Favorite Color is Blue. Sometimes.

My Favorite Color is Blue. Sometimes.

Roger Hutchison

$16.99

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

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$16.99
A Catholic Woman's Book of Prayers

A Catholic Woman's Book of Prayers

Donna-Marie Cooper O'Boyle

$11.99

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 ...

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$11.99
Your Light Gives Us Hope

Your Light Gives Us Hope

Anselm Grün

$17.99

Celebrated author and Benedictine monk Anselm Grün offers a daily reader of very simple and often quite direct Advent reflections. Anselm Grün show...

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$17.99
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
Glory Happening

Glory Happening

Kaitlin B. Curtice

$16.99

“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...

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$16.99
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
Look!

Look!

Laura Alary

$16.99

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...

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$16.99
Still Pilgrim

Still Pilgrim

Angela Alaimo O'Donnell

$21.00

“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...

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$21.00
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
The Consequence of Moonlight

The Consequence of Moonlight

Sofia Starnes

$21.00

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 ...

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$21.00
Almost Entirely

Almost Entirely

Jennifer Wallace

$21.00

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...

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$21.00
Communion of Saints

Communion of Saints

Susan L. Miller

$21.00

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

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$21.00
What Will Soon Take Place

What Will Soon Take Place

Tania Runyan

$21.00

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 ...

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$21.00
Count Your Blessings in Color

Count Your Blessings in Color

Paraclete Press

$11.99

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

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$11.99
A Christmas Carol

A Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens

$9.99

Includes illustrations from the original 1843 edition by “The Man Who Invented Christmas” — Charles Dickens! This paperback edition of Charles Dick...

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$9.99
Love Never Fails - Paraclete Press

Love Never Fails

Hilda St. Clair

$15.99

“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...

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$15.99
The St. Francis Holy Fool Prayer Book

The St. Francis Holy Fool Prayer Book

Jon M. Sweeney

$16.99

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

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$16.99
The Orthodox Heretic

The Orthodox Heretic

Peter Rollins

$19.99

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

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$19.99
The Suitcase

The Suitcase

Jane G. Meyer

$16.99

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...

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$16.99
Words of Faith

Words of Faith

Paraclete Press, Inc.

$11.99

Adults of all ages everywhere who feel stressed and unfocused are quieting their minds and souls by putting away the smart phones and tablets and p...

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$11.99
Short Trip to the Edge

Short Trip to the Edge

Scott Cairns

$16.99

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

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$16.99
The Complete Francis of Assisi

The Complete Francis of Assisi

Jon M. Sweeney

$29.99

There are many editions of the writings of St. Francis, and biographies about him, but here in one volume are both, plus the complete text of the l...

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$29.99
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
Between Midnight and Dawn

Between Midnight and Dawn

Sarah Arthur

$18.99

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

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$18.99
The St. Teresa of Avila Prayer Book

The St. Teresa of Avila Prayer Book

Vinita Hampton Wright

$17.99

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...

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$17.99
Make Room

Make Room

Laura Alary

$16.99

While the Advent season is filled with fun and expectations, Lent can be more difficult for children. How can we help children approach this seaso...

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$16.99
Slow Pilgrim

Slow Pilgrim

Scott Cairns

$39.00

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

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$39.00
Accidental Grace

Accidental Grace

Rami M. Shapiro

$22.00

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

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$22.00
Jesus: First-Century Rabbi

Jesus: First-Century Rabbi

David Zaslow

$16.99

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

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$16.99
40 Days with the Holy Spirit

40 Days with the Holy Spirit

Jack Levison

$17.99

40 Days with the Holy Spirit will inspire you to encounter God in fresh and surprising ways. You’ll develop stronger spiritual muscles as you brea...

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$17.99
The Complete Cloud of Unknowing

The Complete Cloud of Unknowing

John Julian OJN

$22.99

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...

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$22.99
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

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