“The life of a monk ought to be a continuous Lent. Since few, however, have the strength for this, we urge the entire community during these days of Lent to keep its manner of life most pure and to wash away in this holy season the negligences of other times. This we can do in a fitting manner by refusing to indulge evil habits and by devoting ourselves to prayer with tears, to reading, to compunction of heart and self-denial. During these days, therefore, we will add to the usual measure of our service something by way of private prayer and abstinence from food or drink, so that each of us will have something above the assigned measure to offer God of his own will with the joy of the Holy Spirit (1 Thess 1:6). In other words, let each one deny himself some food, drink, sleep, needless talking and idle jesting, and look forward to holy Easter with joy and spiritual longing.”
– Rule of St. Benedict, Chapter 49, The Observance of Lent
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The Lenten Cookbook
$30.00- ISBN: 9781644134696
- Unique cookbook with many meatless recipes along with essays on fasting and abstinence throughout Church history and in current practice by Scott Hahn.
- Hardcover, 8.25 x 10.25 inches.
- 214 pages with full-color photographs.
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- This volume contains Saint Bernard's sermons for the liturgical seasons of Lent and Easter. Included are sermons for the Purification, Septuagesima, the feast of Saint Benedict, and the feast of the Annunciation, all of which are interpreted by Bernard in light of the paschal mystery.
- ISBN: 9780879074524
- Softcover, 187 pages, 5.5 x 8.5"
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- The Masses of Holy Week (Palm Sunday and the Triduum) and the complete Office of Tenebrae in the Roman Rite (i.e., pre-1955). With full text in Latin and English, Gregorian chants, and illustrations.
- ISBN: 9781960711700
- Softcover, 488 pages, 6 x 9 inches.
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- Hardcover
- 4.75 x 6.75 inches
- 443 pages
- Classic aid to assisting at the Traditional Latin Mass with explanations and meditations on all the feasts and seasons of the Liturgical Year.
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- Hardcover
- 4.75 x 6.75 inches
- 648 pages
- Classic aid to assisting at the Traditional Latin Mass with explanations and meditations on all the feasts and seasons of the Liturgical Year.
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- Hardcover
- 4.75 x 6.75 inches
- 324 pages
- Classic aid to assisting at the Traditional Latin Mass with explanations and meditations on all the feasts and seasons of the Liturgical Year.
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- Hardcover
- 4.75 x 6.75 inches
- 643 pages
- Classic aid to assisting at the Traditional Latin Mass with explanations and meditations on all the feasts and seasons of the Liturgical Year.
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- Hardcover
- 4.75 x 6.75 inches
- 524 pages
- Classic aid to assisting at the Traditional Latin Mass with explanations and meditations on all the feasts and seasons of the Liturgical Year.
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- Hardcover, 404 pages.
- 4.75 x 6.75 inches.
- Classic aid to assisting at the Traditional Latin Mass with explanations and meditations on all the feasts and seasons of the Liturgical Year.
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- ISBN: 9721586119719
- Softcover
- 5.3 x 8 inches
- 284 pages
- Daily reflections for the Lenten season by Mother Mary Francis
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- Liber Hebdomadae Sanctae Cantus Gregoriani - 1962
- The new Gregorian Chant Holy Week Book was made by taking out those parts from the 1962 Liber Usualis that pertain to the entire week, beginning with the restored Palm Sunday ceremonies up to and including the Easter Vigil.
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- Gregorian Chant for Passiontide from the Benedictine Abbey of Fontgombault in France.
- 25 tracks, total time 73'17"
- Physical CD only with Latin-English booklet, click here to preview.
- Listen a sample track here for the Introit Nos Autem of Holy Thursday:
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Easter at Ephesus
$15.00- Celebrate Easter Joy with the Benedictines of Mary Queen of Apostles in their 2015 Gregorian Chant Album Easter at Ephesus
- 27 Tracks
- Total playing time: 62:56
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Easter – Gregorian Chant CD
$15.00- Easter Gregorian Chant Album from Fontgombault
- 22 tracks, Total time - 53:25 minutes
- Available as physical CD with Booklet.
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- 1″ Pewter medal with 23″ chain with clasp.
- Sold individually and includes a prayer card with an image of Our Lady of Sorrows.
- Made in the USA.
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- 1″ Pewter medal with 23″ chain with clasp.
- Sold individually and includes a prayer card with an image of the Holy Face of our Lord from the Shroud of Turin.
- Made in the USA.
“During this time of Lent each monk is to receive a book from the library, and is to read the whole of it straight through. These books are to be distributed at the beginning of Lent.”
– Rule of St. Benedict, Chapter 48, On the Daily Manual Labor
Here is a selection of our books on the spiritual life and prayer that will prove fruitful reading during this holy season of Lent:
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Special offer!
The Liturgical Year, 15 volume set, hardcover
$285.00Original price was: $285.00.$256.50Current price is: $256.50.- The Liturgical Year fifteen volume set has over 7418 pages total in 15 volumes.
- This is a classic work on the texts of the Mass through the Liturgical Year, by the great Benedictine Abbot, Dom Guéranger.
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- In this manual, you will find the beliefs of the Catholic Faith reflected in the traditional prayers and treasured devotions that will guide your soul to both an increase in devotion to God and his Church along with the cultivation of a deeper prayer life better disposed to receive the Sacraments.
- ISBN: 9781505128338
- Leatherette, 4.5 x 7.5 inches, 796 pages.
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- ISBN: 9781930278882
- 3.5 x 6", 1248 pages.
- Leather bound.
- The Blessed Sacrament Prayerbook by Fr. Lasance is a classic from 1913 with many novenas, prayers, the ordinary of the Mass and devotions for visits to the Blessed Sacrament.
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- Fr. Gabriel's writing is practical, warm, and yet exceedingly rich; in each reading, he invites the Christian into a deeper relationship with our Lord, all designed to lead to divine intimacy with God.
- Black Leather Flexible Cover
- 1216 Pages
- Baronius Press
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Conferences of John Cassian
$55.00- ISBN: 9780809104840
- Hardcover
- 5.75 x 8.5"
- 886 pages
- Complete Conferences of the great master of monastic spirituality, John Cassian
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Blessed be God – Prayerbook
$42.00- Deluxe Pocket-sized Traditional Catholic Prayer Book
- Flexible Leather Cover
- 754 pages
- 6 1/16" x 3 1/4"
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Of Prayer and Meditation
$40.00- A newly-typeset version of the 1584 translation of Venerable Louis of Granada's profound work Of Prayer and Meditation.
- Leather hardcover with ribbon markers.
- 8.5 x 6 inches, 554 pages
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Institutes of John Cassian
$40.00- ISBN: 9780809105229
- Hardcover, 287 pages.
- 5.75 x 8.5 inches.
- The Institutes is the first work of the great master of monastic spirituality, John Cassian.
- Click here for preview.
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The Raccolta
$40.00- ISBN: 9781930278462
- The Raccolta is the official collection of indulgenced prayers, authorized by Pope Pius XII. 2018 reprint of the 1957 edition.
- 5.5 x 8" hardcover
- 641 pages
- Large, easy-to-read type, with black and red text
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- ISBN: 9781905574582
- Baronius Press
- Leatherbound with gold edged paper
- 4 x 6 inches
- 448 pages
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Commentary on the Rule of St. Benedict by Dom Delatte
$30.00 – $40.00- ISBN: 9781331849209
- Reprint of the 1913 original
- 532 pages
- 9 x 6 inches
- Choose between hardcover or softcover
- Commentary on the Rule of St. Benedict by Dom Delatte with the Holy Rule text in Latin and English. Includes a detailed index and thorough, scholarly footnotes. Read by the monks of Clear Creek.
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- ISBN: 9781622921058
- Manna of the Soul, originally published in 1926 by Father Lasance
- 4.5 x 6.25, soft flex cover
- 546 pages
- Large, easy-to-read type
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Sermons on Conversion
$35.00- In his Sermons on Conversion, St. Bernard of Clairvaux draws a picture of the perfect frontier bishop, and holds him up as a model for bishops everywhere.
- Translated and published in 1981, this volume includes:
- On Conversion: A Sermon to Clerics
- Lenten Sermons on the psalm "He who dwells."
- ISBN: 9780879079253
- Softcover, 282 pages, 5.5 x 8.5"
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- Beautiful Prayers, Beautiful Book
- Includes all the Gregorian Chant
- Blue leather, flexible cover, 4" x 6"
- 248 pages printed in red and black
- Gilded edges
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- ISBN: 9781915544179
- Christ the Life of the Monk is a classic work on Benedictine Spirituality by the Blessed Abbot Columba Marmion
- Hardcover, 6x9 inches, 498pages
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Walled about with God
$28.00- Softcover, 5.5 x 8.5 inches, 294 pages.
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- Calm and spirituality the true hallmarks of Carthusian writings distinguish this book, The Prayer of Love and Silence. The first part sets out the principles of the interior life; the second works out a method of prayer.
- ISBN: 9780879077730
- Softcover, 145 pages, 4.75 x 7.5"
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- This volume contains Saint Bernard's sermons for the liturgical seasons of Lent and Easter. Included are sermons for the Purification, Septuagesima, the feast of Saint Benedict, and the feast of the Annunciation, all of which are interpreted by Bernard in light of the paschal mystery.
- ISBN: 9780879074524
- Softcover, 187 pages, 5.5 x 8.5"
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- ISBN: 978-1887593236
- Softcover, 6 x 9
- 384 pages.
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- Hardcover, 5.75 x 8.75"
- 329 pages
- Robert Cardinal Sarah, in his latest book, addresses many of today's controversial topics in a spirit of wisdom, clarity and charity.
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- ISBN: 9781915544193
- Christ in his Mysteries is a classic work by the great Benedictine Abbot, Blessed Columba Marmion
- Hardcover, 6x9 inches, 412 pages
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- Paperback
- 414 pages
- 4.25 x 7
- ISBN: 9780895552457
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- Spiritual Life and Prayer: According to Holy Scripture and Monastic Tradition
- 2016 Reprint of the English translation by the Benedictine nuns of Stanbrook Abbey, England,1900
- ISBN: 9780692722749
- 329 pages
- 5.5 x 8.5 in.
- paperback bound
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Easter – Gregorian Chant CD
$15.00- Easter Gregorian Chant Album from Fontgombault
- 22 tracks, Total time - 53:25 minutes
- Available as physical CD with Booklet.