Paraclete Essentials

Paraclete Essentials

Rediscover the essential wisdom of the Christian faith in these engaging, contemporary editions of the Christian classics. 


“Most of us will never be monastics, much less desert-dwelling hermits. Yet who among us does not need to know who to turn trouble into spiritual good, how to lovingly bear minor slights and major wounds, how to forgive and offer compassion? And who among us does not long to meet God at a far deeper level than we've ever met him before?” —Paula Huston, from the foreword to The Way of Perfection

Paraclete Press began as a publisher of the Christian Classics, and the classics have remained the bedrock and inspiration for our publishing mission to this day. Ancient and ever new, they offer us enduring wisdom, practical guidance, and stability in our troubled times---and in our daily lives. Long before the popular spirituality of today's writers, these daring and faithful Christians showed us how to make the spiritual part of the everyday. 
The Rule of Saint Benedict

The Rule of Saint Benedict

St. Benedict of Nursia

$17.99

Discussion around the bestseller The Benedict Option by Rod Dreher has led many people to want to know more about Benedictine principles.​ This lit...

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$17.99
The Confessions of St. Augustine

The Confessions of St. Augustine

St. Augustine of Hippo

$29.99

The first autobiography ever written, and one of the most profound testaments of faith, ever.  “This book is the masterpiece from which all other C...

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$29.99
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
Ascent of Mount Carmel

Ascent of Mount Carmel

John of the Cross

$16.99

$16.99
The Joy of Full Surrender

The Joy of Full Surrender

Jean Pierre de Caussade

$17.99

“The will of God has nothing but sweetness, grace, and treasures for the surrendered soul”God speaks to us through every moment of every day. By f...

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$17.99
The Cloud of Unknowing

The Cloud of Unknowing

Anonymous

$15.99

A mystical classic now easier to understand    Very few spiritual classics from centuries past offer real guidance for entering into the darkness ...

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$15.99
The Practice of the Presence of God

The Practice of the Presence of God

Brother Lawrence

$14.99

The original guide to “practicing the presence of God”“We must not grow weary of doing little things for the love of God, who looks not on the grea...

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$14.99
Treatise on the Love of God

Treatise on the Love of God

St. Francis de Sales

$17.99

Heavenly Love comes as a wound that is a gift of God. Francis de Sales’s spiritual masterpiece, Treatise on the Love of God, was originally publi...

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$17.99
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
Little Talks with God

Little Talks with God

Catherine of Siena

$16.99

"Eternal greatness! You made yourself low and small to make mankind great." While in an ecstatic trance, St. Catherine of Siena dictated The Dialog...

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$16.99
The Love Chapter

The Love Chapter

St. John Chrysostom

$15.99

First Corinthians 13, "The Love Chapter," is often read and rarely followed. Early Christian theologian, John Chrysostom, called the “golden-mout...

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$15.99
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
The Imitation of Christ

The Imitation of Christ

Thomas à Kempis

$18.99

The Imitation of Christ has enjoyed an unparalleled place in the world of books for more than five hundred years. 5000 different editions have bee...

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$18.99
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
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
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
The Story of a Soul
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The Story of a Soul

Therese of Lisieux

$17.99

This popular translation of The Story of a Soul includes every word of the original text, retaining the charm of the landmark autobiography of St. ...

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The Way of Perfection

The Way of Perfection

St. Teresa of Avila

$16.99

God will always give us more than we ask forMillions have read and benefited from this book since it was first written nearly 500 years ago. St. Te...

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$16.99

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