Domestic Monastery
Ronald Rolheiser
What is a monastery? A monastery is a place set apart—a place to learn the blessings of powerlessness, and that time is not ours but God’s. Our hom...
View full detailsFind inner peace and stillness right where you are with the rich traditions and ancient practices of monastic spirituality.
What is a monastery? A monastery is a place set apart—a place to learn the blessings of powerlessness, and that time is not ours but God’s. Our hom...
View full detailsA love letter to a community of Trappist monks who provided family when it was needed the most. This warmhearted memoir describes how a small, ins...
View full detailsAmid 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...
View full detailsThese saints have spoken to the hearts of millions. They’ve helped many on the way to understanding the role of God in their lives. In this collect...
View full detailsBenedictine monastic spirituality has emerged as an antidote to the spiritual and cultural challenges facing people of faith today. In this book, t...
View full detailsThe 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...
View full detailsWe all hurt in various ways–pain from childhood, unspoken fears, memories that remind us of loss–but Anthony Delisi, a Trappist chaplain, teacher, ...
View full detailsIn 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...
View full detailsThe purity and simplicity of Gregorian chant fed the musical and liturgical life of Christianity for more than a millennium. But after the reforms ...
View full detailsA Hindu ashram. A Buddhist meditation center. A Cistercian monastery. Today, thousands of people, hungry to live more balanced and spiritually cent...
View full detailsThe world was startled in 2007 by revelations that Mother Teresa of Calcutta's spiritual life was full of serious doubts and personal suffering for...
View full details"There is no shortage of good days," writes Annie Dillard. "It is good lives that are hard to come by." Reflecting on what makes a "good life," Rob...
View full detailsA mystical classic now easier to understand Very few spiritual classics from centuries past offer real guidance for entering into the darkness ...
View full details"Eternal greatness! You made yourself low and small to make mankind great." While in an ecstatic trance, St. Catherine of Siena dictated The Dialog...
View full detailsThe Christian mystical tradition has its roots in Holy Scripture but was enunciated most clearly by the late 5th century author writing under the n...
View full detailsThe most complete and engaging one-volume introduction to the “Little Flower” Following a thorough introduction to the saint’s life, The Comple...
View full detailsFor all who love St. Francis and his spirit of passionate creativity and devotion to God, this prayer book is an invitation to experience the spiri...
View full detailsClare 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...
View full detailsReading Francis's writings is like being "on the road" with him 800 years ago. Biographies will only take you so far. It's impossible to truly unde...
View full detailsThis beautiful edition offers all of G. K. Chesterton's insight, humor, and wit as he uncovers the real meaning of the life of the world's most po...
View full detailsGood spiritual directors can be difficult to come by; this book offers Pope Francis to be yours. Ever wonder what advice the Pope would give you to...
View full detailsFor today's hungry Christians, teachings on the Rule of Saint Benedict by one of the twentieth century's best-loved Catholic writers. “Benedict i...
View full detailsThe most engaging collection of the French mystics’ writings now available Twenty-first century Christians are now discovering the wisdom of this c...
View full detailsIn all times, in different branches of the Christian family, there are people who have written or sung or spoken things that encouraged us to give our lives to God and to listen to His voice. At Paraclete Press, we gather and share these treasures.