Paraclete Press: 276 books
Centering Prayers
A One-Year Daily Companion for Going Deeper into the Love of God
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Centering Prayers is a collection of inspired prayers crafted as brief preludes or postludes to periods of personal, contemplative prayer. Each radiates God’s love. Tailored for the seasons and months of the year, they integrate a spiritual theology with certain mystical depth. You will want to...
Prayer as Night Falls
Experiencing Compline
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
This beautiful book allows you to experience and participate in the last of the daily cycle of fixed-hour prayer: Compline. Kenneth Peterson has sung Compline at St. Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral in Seattle since the mid-1960s, and tells the story of the history and themes of the office, woven together...
Catholic Heart Day by Day
Uplifting Stories for Courageous Living
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
These stories of Catholic faith will inspire you to live courageously. May these stories of grace and courage find their way into your heart each morning. May they influence the way that you treat others. They have the power to slowly transform your life over the course of the next year. A Catholic...
An Inner Step Toward God
Writings and Teachings on Prayer by Father Alexander Men
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
According to Father Alexander Men (1935-1990), the Russian Orthodox priest and popular spiritual teacher who was publicly martyred in 1990 in the former USSR, prayer is “the flight of the heart toward God.” This work, available for the first time in English, is a collection of his writings, lectures,...
The Road to Assisi: The Essential Biography of St. Francis
The Essential Biography of St. Francis
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2003
He conversed with both the Pope and the sultan. He transformed a taste for fine things and troubadour poetry into greater loves for poverty and joyful devotion to God. He never intended to found a traditional religious "movement," but nevertheless, he did. As he died, his brothers had to...
by Jack Wintz
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
A Universal Question, thoughtfully answered! What do you think: Will we see our dogs and cats in the hereafter? Does God's plan for eternity include the created nonhuman world? Franciscan friar and popular writer Father Jack Wintz brings a love for all creation and infectious enthusiasm to the serious...
God Will Provide
How Saints Tapped God's Boundless Supply - And 9 Ways You Can, Too
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
A specialist in human goodness, divine providence, and recent saints, Patricia Treece offers the fruits of years of research on how God meets the financial needs, in varying ways, or his people. Mother Teresa of Calcutta, for instance, refused to let anyone raise money in her name, insisting if God...
Queen of the Cosmos
Interviews with the Visionaries of Medjugorje
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2004
“The Blessed Mother has been permitted by God to come here [because] she knows what is coming in the future. She is calling all God´s children back on the path to Heaven.” –Ivan Dragicevic, a visionary Over twenty years ago, in the tiny mountain village of Medjugorje, Bosnia, six young people...
Flunking Sainthood: A Year of Breaking the Sabbath, Forgetting to Pray, and Still Loving My Neighbor
Flunking Sainthood: A Year of Breaking the Sabbath, Forgetting to Pray, and Still Loving My Neighbor
A Year of Breaking the Sabbath, Forgetting to Pray, and Still Loving My Neighbor
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
This wry memoir tackles twelve different spiritual practices in a quest to become more saintly, including fasting, fixed-hour prayer, the Jesus Prayer, gratitude, Sabbath-keeping, and generosity. Although Reiss begins with great plans for success ("Really, how hard could that be?" she asks...
Abba, Give Me a Word: The Path of Spiritual Direction
The Path of Spiritual Direction
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
“I challenge you to get through a chapter of this book without a desire for God being struck in your soul. Roger Owens wears his brilliance lightly and loves words tenderly and lavishly in these pages. He is ferociously gifted, and fast becoming one of the abbas to whom the reading church often...
by Donna-Marie Cooper O'Boyle
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
“Too often we whisk our youth through the Sacrament without a clear understanding of what's happening. That's tragic, because a grace misunderstood is easily unappreciated, and a grace unappreciated is easily lost. My Confirmation Book empowers young people to receive the Holy Spirit in a way that's...
Writing to God
Kid's Edition
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Writing to God – Kid’s’ Edition offers guidance to kids that parents can also appreciate: It invites them to speak to God creatively through their pens (or pencils, or crayons). In 35 days, kids are invited to pray to God using their senses, reflecting on their feelings, in light of Bible verses,...
O Taste and See
A Biblical Reflection on Experiencing God
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
If you have always been troubled by the image of God as a punitive judge, this book will show you why this view is so mistaken. Psalm 34:8’s “O taste and see how good the Lord is” contains in miniature the whole process of coming to and growing in faith. It gives us insight into God and into...
Mudhouse Sabbath: An Invitation to a Life of Spiritual Discipline
An Invitation to a Life of Spiritual Discipline
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2003
After her conversion from Orthodox Judaism to Christianity, Lauren Winner found that her life was indelibly marked by the rich traditions and spiritual practices of Judaism. She set out to discover how she could incorporate some of these practices into her new faith. Winner presents eleven Jewish...