John Richard Sack: 8 books

This is a warm and personal analysis of the hidden depths of the Lord's Prayer. This fine book offers a new level of understanding by tapping the insights of many religious mystics, the twilight speech of poetry, and years of contemplative study and meditation. John Sack explores each phrase of this...

"The Franciscan Conspiracy," a history mystery set in medieval Italy, has been published in 16 languages and has been a top-10 bestseller in Brazil (for five months) and throughout Europe. On his death, Fra Leo, the closest companion of Francis of Assisi during the saint’s life, leaves...

Francesco Bernardone was the son of a wealthy man, but had been seized by a deep desire to live a simple existence without possessions, nourished only by love of God. People said he was crazy and perhaps he was. Having a pretty ideal is one thing, actually living it is another. How could he stay simple,...

A short story. The human condition leaves many swirling at the fringes of a maelstrom that threatens to suck them downward until they are left prostrate at its epicenter. Often, it is one traumatic and overwhelming event that plunges people into the vortex. Can Willi Peyer survive the death of his...

“Bloodbrother Bear” is set in the mountains of northern California in the late 1940s. A mountain man, hired by a natural history museum to collect specimens, encounters a “rogue” bear, a former camp raider from a national park who has been captured and released into the wild. The bear has...

In 1955, a group of Trappist monks set out from their motherhouse in Kentucky to found a new abbey in Missouri.The stories of their struggles and successes describe an era of American monasticism predating the reforms of the Second Vatican Council. The canonical hours and other services were still...

Following a painful divorce, Frank Palmer has the blues. He is struggling to recover "the he that was" before his marriage, until he enlists the help of the Great Blue Heron in his quest.

On the nights of the full moon, fra Angelo Lorenzini crawls into the darkest part of his dungeon and pulls his blanket over him. He stays away from stray moonbeams, those stairways to the edge of his senses that start his skin prickling and the blood raging through his veins. He lifts his ears to...