- Dom Prosper Guéranger’s Liturgical Institutions sets forth an erudite and impassioned history of the Roman Rite and of the depredations it has suffered over the centuries at the hands of “anti-liturgical heretics” whose lineage is by no means exhausted.
- ISBN: 9781965303481
- Softcover, 6 x 9 inches, 210 pages, includes index.
- First ever English translation of this Liturgical Masterpiece in an abridged form.
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- Two volumes, printed on bible paper with black and red ink, with gilt edges, 6 marker ribbons and a black flexible cover.
- 4.5 x 6.75 inches.
- Reprint of the 1963 Monastic Breviary in Latin only. The last edition before the reforms of Vatican II.
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- Part of the very rare breed of Parachute Chaplains, in his case with the 101st Airborne Division, Sampson spent much of his career as an army chaplain in the center of maelstroms of the 20th century. Throughout it all, Sampson offered a valuable Christian witness in the darkest of times and the most difficult of circumstances.
- ISBN: 9780813236575
- Softcover, 5.5 x 8.5 inches, 207 pages.
- Read in the refectory at Clear Creek, Summer 2025.
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- The fourth and final of Graham Greene’s “Catholic novels,” The End of the Affair is a marvelous, intimate story of the post-war longing for redemption hidden in the wounded desires of the human heart—and of God’s infinite longing to redeem.
- ISBN: 9781685782511
- Hardcover, 6 x 9 inches, 182 pages.
- New 2025 edition.
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- Since its first release in 1967, Christy has sold an astonishing 10 million copies. Now the beloved story is available in a special 50th anniversary edition which includes an afterword reflecting on the success of the book and how many people Christy's story has reached, as well as added features like a character list and a town map to enhance the reading experience for fans old and new.
- ISBN: 9781683701323
- Softcover, 6 x 9 inches, 506 pages
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- O. E. Rolvaag's classic novel of a family of Norwegian settlers in the Great Plains—a vivid and intimate portrait of the nineteenth-century immigrant experience and the exploration of America.
- ISBN: 9780060931933
- Paperback, 8 x 5.5 inches, 560 pages
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- A poignant novel about transformation and tradition, growing up and growing wise, and finding yourself—even if it might mean disappointing those you love.
- ISBN: 9781501142468
- Paperback, 8.25 x 5.5 inches, 272 pages
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- Baxter gives modern readers not just an accurate translation of Dante’s Italian but an immersive experience into the feelings, intimations, and realizations Dante’s original readers must have had as they made their way through the unmatched moral evocations and inner tutelage of this second panel of The Divine Comedy.
- ISBN: 9798892801003
- Paperback, 9 x 6 inches, 240 pages
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- This vivid new translation of Dante’s immortal classic, Inferno, opens a new vista and offers a fresh experience of this milestone in human literary genius.
- ISBN: 9798892800341
- Paperback, 9 x 6 inches, 258 pages
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- Jane Austen's last completed novel, Persuasion is brilliant satire of vanity and pretension, and above all, a love story tinged with the heartache of missed opportunities.
- ISBN: 9781400339679
- Hardcover, 9 x 6 inches, 304 pages
- Collector's edition
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- In the course of the book Jane Austen explores social attitudes to marriage, romantic and family love, the power of social misunderstanding and the apparent role of fate in the desperate despair of unrequited love.
- ISBN: 9781787557000
- Hardcover, 3.75 x 6 inches, 320 pages
- Complete and Unabridged
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- In Christmas Around the Fire, Ryan Topping invites the reader to turn off the television set, put down the device, quiet ourselves, and gather our loved ones to share some of the best writing, in a variety of forms, about Christmas. Whether or not, your family has an actual fireplace around which to gather is not so important, but it helps!
- ISBN: 9781505111156
- Hardcover, 6 x 8 inches, 296 pages.
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- Victor Hugo’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame was written in 1831, at a time when the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris was falling into disrepair. This epic novel helped spark a preservationist movement that led to the cathedral being restored to its full glory.
- ISBN: 9781774021910
- Imitation leather cover, 8.75 x 5.75 inches, 449 pages
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- Available in English for the first time, this short book is a powerful introduction to the spiritual wisdom of one of the Church's newest saints: Elizabeth of the Trinity.
- ISBN: 9781622823772
- Softcover, 5.5 x 8.5 inches, 110 pages.
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- Today, as the meaning of feminism is lost in a world of relativism, Edith Stein provides a model for a true feminist woman who authentically integrates faith, family, and work. Award-winning journalist Maria Ruiz Scaperlanda brings new light to this complex woman, her culture, and the pivotal period of history in which she lived and died.
- ISBN: 9781622824649
- Softcover, 8.5 x 5.5 inches, 221 pages.
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- St. Catherine of Siena and Her Times tells the moving tale of Catherine, whose call to live a cloistered life of prayer and penance was trumped not only by the poverty and plagues of her day, but by the explicit orders of the Pope, who, hearing of her remarkable powers of reconciliation of enemies, called her out of obscurity to mediate between the warring parties, sometimes even at the risk to her life.
- ISBN: 9781622824540
- Softcover, 5.5 x 8.5 inches, 308 pages.
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- Very few people know that Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) wrote a major work on Joan of Arc. Still fewer know that he considered it not only his most important but also his best work.
- ISBN: 9780898702682
- Softcover, 5.25 x 8 inches, 452 pages.
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- This acclaimed work on the life and mysticism of Joan of Arc is considered by historians as one of the most convincing, well researched and best written accounts of the Maid of Orleans.
- ISBN: 9781586171520
- Softcover, 6 x 9 inches, 275 pages.
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- Jean-Jacques Antier describes Foucauld's dramatic, inspiring life in a vivid narrative style. He based his biography on the man's writings and correspondence as well as interviews with numerous people who knew him.
- Illustrated with sixteen pages of photos, and indexed.
- ISBN: 9781621645153
- Softcover, 9 x 6 inches, 360 pages.
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- This classic work merits a long life. Apart from providing a splendid translation of the saint's original text, Father Tylenda has included an informative commentary which enables the modern reader to grasp various allusions in the text-and to gain a better view of a saintly man baring his soul.
- ISBN: 9780898708103
- Softcover, 5.25 x 8 inches, 204 pages.
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- This swift-paced book by the Jesuit Father Francis Talbot is more than a biography of a great saint. It is a vital chapter in the tragic history of New France in North America, a story of the failure of colonization partially redeemed by the blood of the martyrs of the Church.
- ISBN: 9781621641889
- Softcover, 9 x 6 inches, 371 pages.
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- Sigrid Grabner's vivid narrative of the life of Pope Gregory I reads like a novel, evoking the landscape of early medieval Italy with humanity and realism. It brings us face-to-face with a man who, for all his weakness, became an instrument in the hand of God and let himself be made great.
- ISBN: 9781621643647
- Softcover, 6 x 9 inches, 279 pages.
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- In No Strange Land illuminates the richness of mysticism--in the life of Philip Neri--as an “experience of the activity of God.”
- ISBN: 9781621381341
- Softcover, 9 x 6 inches, 296 pages.
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- The Life of St Francis of Assisi by St Bonaventure conveys a picture of the Saint that renders an indelible impression of a man totally transformed by God.
- ISBN: 9780895551511
- Softcover, 5.5 x 8.5 inches, 165 pages.
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- These stories of St. Francis and his first followers have inspired millions of people over the centuries.
- ISBN: 9781612618364
- Softcover, 5 x 7.5 inches, 177 pages.
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- This colorful memoir by Fr. Amorth offers a rare, up-close glimpse of the life and personality of St. Pio of Pietrelcina, Padre Pio, the beloved Italian monk who was blessed with extraordinary gifts.
- ISBN: 9781621644408
- Softcover, 157 pages, 5 x 7 inches.
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- This 2nd edition of the classic spiritual portrait of Mother Seton, newly edited with introduction by Sister Betty Ann McNeil, D.C., traces the spiritual journey of the 19th-century American wife, mother, educator, and religious leader, who became the first native-born canonized saint of the United States.
- ISBN: 9781621646617
- Softcover, 5.25 x 8 inches, 296 pages.
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- In From Silence to Silence: A Benedictine Pilgrimage to God’s Sanctuary, Fr. Francis Bethel, OSB, a Benedictine monk from Our Lady of Clear Creek Abbey in Oklahoma, draws from the centuries-old monastic tradition of prayer and his own personal experience to provide a spiritual guide for Catholics who want to silence the distracting noise of this fallen world to hear more clearly the quiet or “silent” voice of God.
- ISBN: 9781505129878
- Hardcover, 5.5 x 8.5 inches, 273 pages.
- Published in 2025.
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- ISBN: 9781682784372
- First Biography of Pope Leo XIV written just days after his election to the See of Peter on May 8, 2025.
- Softcover, 137 pages, 5.5 x 8.5 inches.
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- Real Leather Breviary Cover. Fits all volumes of the Liturgy of the hours or other similar sized Missals, such as the Baronius Press 1962 Hand Missal. Sheepskin leather , interlined and made to a snug finish.
- Outside measurements = Height 2.7" x Width 5.25"X Length 7.5".
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- ISBN: 9781505127300
- Newly published, first-ever comprehensive biography of Empress Zita in English.
- Zita’s life and her integral role within the House of Habsburg during the tumultuous 20th century are not well known. In Zita: Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary, Charles Coulombe takes readers through Zita’s lineage and the political climate she was born into, Bl. Charles and Zita’s marriage, her support of Bl. Charles amid the destruction of the Catholic Monarchy, and much more.
- Hardcover, 9 x 6 inches, 412 pages.
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- Cornelius a Lapide (1557 - 1637) created a Scripture Commentary so complete and scholarly that it was practically the universal commentary in use by Catholics (often available only in 30 some Latin volumes) for hundreds of years.
- This volume contains an English translation of the Epistles to Titus, Philemon, and the Hebrews.
- Hardcover, 6 x 9 inches, 482 pages.
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- This adjustable St. Benedict Rosary Bracelet is available with either olive wood or black wood beads and can adjust to fit any wrist size.
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- Dom Guéranger wrote prolifically across the disciplines of history and philosophy in defense of the Church and her traditions.
- Softcover, 5 x 8 inches, 72 pages.
- ISBN: 9781838478520
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- In The Liturgy of the Land: Cultivating a Catholic Homestead, authors Jason Craig and Thomas Van Horn present the practicalities and theological aspects behind the desire for a productive, holy home.
- ISBN: 9781505128321
- Hardcover, 257 pages, 7 x 9 inches.
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- Meet a Doctor of the Church, St. Hildegard of Bingen whose wisdom on health and nutrition will aid you in everything from better digestion and sleep to improved mood, memory, and pain relief.
- ISBN: 9798889113720
- Hardcover, 221 pages, 8 x 10 inches.
- Illustrated.
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- Fascinating biography of Mother Veronica Namoyo Le Goulard, her conversion and vocation story.
- Softcover, 5.5 x 8.5 inches, 189 pages.
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- Frequently, St. Frances of Rome experienced ecstasies and visions, especially after receiving Holy Communion. In these absorbing pages, translated by Fr. Robert Nixon, O.S.B., her spiritual director records her life, mystical graces, and miracles as well as her severe demonic attacks and her unwavering trust in God throughout.
- Softcover, 5.5 x 8.5 inches, 135 pages.
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- In this astounding interview, you will marvel as Antonia and Andrea retrace the path they walked with Carlo and share fascinating moments in his life in which his faith matured, including the plan of life that he developed for himself on the day after his First Holy Communion.
- Softcover, 5.5 x 8.5 inches, 143 pages.
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- Set in rural France, the novel recounts the joys and travails of a young parish priest, tormented by illness and afflicted by awkwardness, as he deals with a colorful cast of local characters and endures deep interior suffering. Accessible to Catholic and non-Catholic readers alike, it is a tour de force of spiritual storytelling, destined to be a classic for generations to come.
- New translation made in 2025 by Michael Tobin.
- Softcover, 288 pages, 5.25 x 8 inches.
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- 1″ Pewter medal with 23″ chain with clasp.
- Sold individually and includes a prayer card with an image of Saint Carlo Acutis.
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- In An Exemplary Couple: Saint Gianna Beretta and Pietro Molla, you will read the story of the spouses Saint Gianna Beretta and Pietro Molla, and with an account, through direct testimonies, of the most significant moments of their married life.
- ISBN: 9781505132625
- Hardcover, 5.5 x 8.5 inches, 146 pages.
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- This inspiring book gives you a splendid example of how to live as a Christian in a secular environment that can be indifferent or hostile to your Faith. For Elisabeth Leseur had two great loves: God and her husband Felix, who was an atheist.
- ISBN: 9781928832485
- Softcover, 6 x 9 inches, 290 pages.
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- Derya's story in From Islam to Christ provides a window into both Islam and modernity. It shows that the grace and the mercy of God know no bounds. Rather, the good news of salvation in Jesus Christ reaches souls in the most unlikely places.
- ISBN: 9781621641124
- Softcover, 5.25 x 8 inches, 203 pages.
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- The Price to Pay is the true story of Joseph Fadelle's conversion to Christianity. He risks everything--family, friends, his inheritance and home, and even his life--in order to follow Christ.
- ISBN: 9781586175993
- Softcover, 5.25 x 8 inches, 224 pages.
- Read in the refectory at Clear Creek Abbey in 2016.
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- This book will inspire those already committed to the cause of life, and make abortion advocates second-guess their convictions.
- ISBN: 9781621644545
- Softcover, 5.25 x 8, 178 pages.
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- In Saintly Women of Modern Times, best-selling author Joan Carroll Cruz presents portraits of seventy-five Catholic women from the past century whose extraordinary holiness set them on the path to sainthood.
- ISBN: 9780895558619
- Softcover, 6 x 9 inches, 259 pages.
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- From this excellent popular biography, read the definitive life of St. Catherine Laboure by Fr. Joseph Dirvin. Included are also 61 pictures and photographs to edify readers' piety and devotion to this holy advocate of our causes before Our Lady and Our Lord.
- ISBN: 9780895552426
- Softcover, 5.5 x 8.5 inches, 245 pages.
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- Father Popiełuszko's witness of spiritual resistance, deeply rooted in the life of Christ, retains its relevance and urgency in the twenty-first century. The young Polish priest who stood up to Communist totalitarianism at the cost of his life will embolden those who resist tyranny and defend human dignity.
- ISBN: 9781621641681
- Softcover, 5.25 x 8, 125 pages.
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- Saint Bonaventure’s Expositio Missae (“Exposition of the Mass”) offers inspiring and touching insight into the multiple layers of meaning and symbolism embodied within the sacred actions of the Eucharistic celebration.
- Hardcover, 5 x 7 inches, 105 pages.
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- In Our Lady of Guadalupe and the Conquest of Darkness, Warren Carroll recounts one of the greatest conquests in history and how Mary helped secure the victory of life over a dark culture of death in Aztec Mexico.
- ISBN: 9780931888120
- Softcover, 5.5 x 8.5 inches, 123 pages.
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- Dubbed “the Mother Teresa of D.C.,” Sr. Dede continues to provide medical care to the marginalized from her convent basement clinic and administer the abortion pill reversal procedure that has resulted in the delivery of more than a dozen healthy babies.
- ISBN: 9798889113768
- Softcover, 5.5 x 8.5 inches, 251 pages, includes color photos.
- Published in 2024 and read in the refectory at Clear Creek Abbey in January 2025.
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- This book is intended to help young people discover the hidden treasure of their vocation, and to encourage them to sell all to possess that treasure. Contains a section including answers to common questions about discerning a vocation.
- ISBN: 9781601140104
- Softcover, 5 x 7 inches, 128 pages.
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- Pewter medal of the three hearts of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph with 23" chain and prayer card.
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- A Song for Nagasaki tells the moving story of this extraordinary man, beginning with his boyhood and the heroic tales and stoic virtues of his family's Shinto religion. It reveals the inspiring story of Nagai's remarkable spiritual journey from Shintoism to atheism to Catholicism.
- ISBN: 9781586173432
- Softcover, 5.25 x 8 inches, 267 pages.
- Read in the refectory at Clear Creek in June 2012
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- The Smile of a Ragpicker brings us the heroic story of Satoko Kitahara, a young, beautiful woman of wealth who gave up her riches and comfort to be among the ragpickers in the Tokyo slums. Motivated by her newfound faith in Christ, she plunged into the life of the poor, regardless of the consequences.
- ISBN: 9781586178819
- Softcover, 5.35 x 8 inches, 254 pages.
- Read in the refectory at Clear Creek Abbey in January 2018.
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- This is the amazing story of the famous Jesuit missionary priest to China, Fr. Matteo Ricci, revered as a "Wise Man" by the Chinese. He arrived in China in 1582 and died there twenty-eight years later, having developing a deep knowledge of and love for the country, the culture and the people.
- ISBN: 9781621640042
- Softcover, 6 x 9 inches, 280 pages.
- Read in the Refectory at Clear Creek Abbey in 2017.
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- Father Pro's generous love for the poor, the young, the sick, the tempted, and the spiritually weak attracted many hearts to him, and through him to Christ. In addition to his charity, his wit and courage make him a model for all Christians, especially those being persecuted for their faith and young people, who are inspired by his heroism.
- ISBN: 9781621641667
- Softcover, 5. 25 x 8 inches, 155 pages.
- Read in the refectory at Clear Creek Abbey in September 2019.
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- This provocative account of the persecution of the Catholic Church in Mexico in the 1920s and 1930s tells the stories of eight pivotal players. The saints are now honored as martyrs by the Catholic Church, and the sinners were political and military leaders who were accomplices in the persecution.
- ISBN: 9781621642626
- Softcover, 5.25 x 8 inches, 286 pages.
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- This autobiography of a Jesuit priest in Elizabethan England is a most remarkable document and John Gerard, its author, a most remarkable priest in a time when to be a Catholic in England courted imprisonment and torture; to be a priest was treason by act of Parliament.
- ISBN: 9781586174507
- Softcover, 5.25 x 7 inches, 370 pages.
- Read in the refectory at Clear Creek Abbey in 2016.
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- This work is an extraordinary contribution to contemporary history and an eyewitness account of a Church and country under brutal Communist domination in the Cold War era.
- ISBN: 9781621645856
- Softcover, 6 x 9 inches, 445 pages.
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- Carlo Acutis is a sign of contradiction in the modern world who serves as a heroic model for today's young people--a teenager who programmed computers and enjoyed films and comics yet lived as an authentic and sincere disciple of Christ.
- ISBN: 9781644134849
- Softcover, 5.5 x 8.5 inches, 193 pages.
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- Captured by a Russian army during World War II and convicted of being a “Vatican spy,” Jesuit Father Walter J. Ciszek spent twenty-three agonizing years in Soviet prisons and the labor camps of Siberia. Ciszek learns to accept the inhuman work in the infamous Siberian salt mines as a labor pleasing to God. And through that experience, he was able to turn the adverse forces of circumstance into a source of positive value and a means of drawing closer to the compassionate and never-forsaking Divine Spirit.
- ISBN: 9780804141529
- Softcover, 5 x 7 inches, 208 pages.
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- It is the tale of an unfolding, developing relationship with God — told with directness and honesty — and of a painful surrender at the foot of the Cross. It is the account of a lifelong, transformative love of reading and the story of how a competitive fencer put down her sabre to pick up the sword of the Spirit.
- ISBN: 9781586178932
- Softcover, 5.25 x 8 inches, 187 pages.
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- Based on exclusive, personal interviews with Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Joseph Pearce's biography of the renowned Russian dissident provides profound insight into a towering literary and political figure.
- ISBN: 9781586174965
- Softcover, 6 x 9 inches, 392 pages.
- Read in the refectory at Clear Creek Abbey in 2010/
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- The story of how Bella Dodd left the Catholic Faith of her childhood to become a high-ranking member of the Communist Party USA, and later found her way back to the Church.
- ISBN: 9781621382928
- Softcover, 5.35 x 8 inches, 264 pages.
- Read in the refectory at Clear Creek Abbey in 2018.
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- It has all the hallmarks of a best-selling fictional thriller: espionage, conspiracy, a struggle against evil powers, undercover work by dark of night... but it's all true. The Scarlet and the Black tells the astonishing and heroic true story of Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty, the man dubbed "The Scarlet Pimpernel of the Vatican" during World War II.
- ISBN: 9781586174095
- Softcover, 5.25 x 8 inches, 191 pages.
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- Here is the astonishing true story of the harrowing experiences of a young German seminarian drafted into Hitler's dreaded SS at the onset of World War II. Without betraying his Christian ideals, against all odds, and in the face of Evil, Gereon Goldmann was able to complete his priestly training, be ordained, and secretly minister to German Catholic soldiers and innocent civilian victims caught up in the horrors of war. How it all came to pass will astound you.
- ISBN: 9780898707748
- Softcover, 5.25 x 8 inches, 345 pages.
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- The Way of Perfection is an astounding work by an astounding saint, St. Teresa of Avila, a highly detailed and immensely useful guide to approaching the Lord through higher and higher degrees of meditative prayer and contemplation, written by the queen among the saints of meditation, beyond compare in mystical wisdom.
- ISBN: 9781505134087
- Softcover, 355 pages, 5.5 x 8.5 inches.
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- This book is an invitation to joy, an invitation to discover the little-known daily lives of monks of Fontgombault, the mother house of Our Lady of Clear Creek Abbey, to help us understand the peace that dwells within them.
- ISBN: 9781639661848
- Softcover, 5.5 x 8.5 inches, 275 pages.
- Written in French in 2020, this is the first edition translated into English (2024).
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- More than any other study edition of the Bible on the market, the Ignatius Catholic Study Bible is “like a householder who brings out of his treasure what is new and what is old” (Mt 13:52). It draws insights from the best of modern scholarship as well as the best of the Catholic tradition of interpretation through the ages.
- ISBN: 9781586176136
- Hardcover, 7 x 10 inches, 2316 pages.
- Includes the entire Bible with commentary, notes, and maps.
