- Previously available only in fragments, these Sayings of the Desert Fathers are now accessible in its entirety in English for the first time. First published in 1975.
- ISBN: 9780879079598
- Softcover, 5.5 x 8.5"
- 269 pages.
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- Told with tenderness and great suspense, and illustrated with eighteen fine drawings by the author, The Saintmaker’s Christmas Eve by Paul Horgan tells with imaginative fire and frank humility the miracle of Christmas: God’s mercy, made incarnate for all peoples.
- ISBN: 9781685953621
- Hardcover, 6 x 9 inches, 100 pages.
- 2024 reprint of 1955 edition.
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- This novel, The Sabbatical, by Michael O'Brien deals with the tension between fatalism and the providential understanding of history, with the courage and love that are necessary for navigating through a confusion of signs, and with the triumph of faith and reason over the forces of destruction.
- ISBN: 9781621644903
- Hardcover, 375 pages, 5.5 x 8.25"
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- Baronius Press
- Leather Hardback binding
- 128 pages
- 4 x 6 inches
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- Rule of St. Benedict in English
- Paperback
- 7" x 4.25"
- 96 Pages
- Liturgical Press
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- Dom Justin McCann's translation of the Rule of St. Benedict was first published in 1937, and has long been admired for its happy combination of elegance of style and accuracy. Having fallen out of print for decades, it is here finally republished in a newly typeset edition with historically correct monastic typeface in 2024.
- The dates on the margins mark the passages traditionally read at the Chapter Office after Prime that ensure the Rule is read in full three times a year.
- Softcover, pocket sized (4 x 6 inches)
- ISBN: 9798218383961
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- ISBN: 9781930278202
- English Translation of the Roman Martyrology from 1748.
- 6 x 8.5 inches, hardcover
- 358 pages
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- The Rise and Fall of the Communist Revolution by Warren H. Carroll
- ISBN: 9780931888595
- Paperback, 6 x 9 inches
- 832 pages.
- Read in the refectory of Clear Creek, spring 2021.
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- The Revolution Against Christendom: A History of Christendom, volume 5 by Warren H. Carroll
- ISBN: 9780931888809
- Paperback, 6 x 9 inches.
- 455 pages.
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- 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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- In The Problem of Pain, C.S. Lewis, one of the most renowned Christian authors and thinkers, examines a universally applicable question within the human condition: “If God is good and all-powerful, why does he allow his creatures to suffer pain?”
- ISBN: 9780060652968
- Softcover, 162 pages, 5.5 x 8 inches.
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- First published in 1961, The Priest’s Way to God combines chapters giving practical advice on every facet of the priestly life – prayer, the Holy Mass, and the exercise of virtue. It concludes with short but rich chapters on the theological truths that lie at the root of all spirituality – charity, the indwelling of the Holy Ghost in our soul, and total union with Christ.
- ISBN: 9781905574926
- Hardcover, 5.5 x 8.5", 182 pages.
- See all the books of Dom Eugene Boylan here.
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- ISBN: 9781586170448
- Softcover, 278 pages.
- 5 1/4 x 8 inches.
- The Priest is not his own is a classic work on the priesthood by a brilliant Catholic thinker, priest, and bishop.
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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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- In The Path to Rome legendary writer Hilaire Belloc speaks of his walk from Southern France to Rome, while using it as the basis for telling the history of Europe, an exploration of the English language, and the journey to Christ and His Church.
- ISBN: 9781505109221
- Softcover, 308 pages, 5.5 x 8.5"
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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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- Loreto Publications
- ISBN: 9781930278332
- Paperback
- 5.5 x 8.5 inches
- 280 pages
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- This book provides the text of the full traditional Office of the Dead (Vespers, Mattins, and Lauds) according to the 1568 Roman breviary in Latin with a facing English translation.
- ISBN: 9798336703023
- Softcover, 95 pages, 4 x 6 inches.
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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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- ISBN: 9781930278264
- First published in 1912, reprinted by Loreto Publications.
- Softcover, 428 pages
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- ISBN: 9781621381198
- Paperback
- 5.25 x 8 inches
- 100 pages
- Illustrated
- Wonderful for introducing children to the traditional Latin Mass!
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- This edition of Chesterton's masterpiece and most famous novel, The Man Who Was Thursday, explicates and enriches the complete text with extensive footnotes, together with an introductory essay on the metaphysical meaning of Chesterton's profound allegory.
- ISBN: 9781586170424
- Softcover, 289 pages, 5.25 x 8 inches.
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- ISBN: 9781618906618
- Publication Date: 2014
- Paperback
- 5.5 x 8.5 inches
- Pages: 104
- THE LOST ARTS OF MODERN CIVILIZATION will inspire you to seek out and nourish the simple joys that lift the spirit, rejoice the heart, and enliven the mind.
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- This special 50th anniversary edition includes three volumes of The Lord of the Rings (The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King), along with an extensive new index—a must-own tome for old and new Tolkien readers alike.
- ISBN: 9780618645619
- Hardcover, 178 pages, 5.5 x 8.5 inches.
- Includes Appendices, Index and Maps.
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- This book of reflections by Msgr. Romano Guardini (1885-1968) helps the reader to gaze upon the face of the Living God and come to know him as he truly is.
- ISBN: 9780918477491
- 154 pages
- 5 x 7 inches
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- ISBN: 9781936639847
- 6" x 9"
- softcover
- 114 pages
- Illustrated on every page!
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- Classic translation of the letters of St. Bernard of Clairvaux. This 2003 edition takes into account much modern scholarship on the 469 letters included.
- ISBN: 9780879071622
- softcover, 6.25 x 9.25"
- 562 pages.
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- Featuring a radically expanded index, this volume contains 354 letters, dating between October 1914, when Tolkien was an undergraduate at the University of Oxford, and August 29, 1973, four days before his death.
- ISBN: 9780358652984
- Hardcover, 707 pages, 5.5 x 8.5 inches.
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- 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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- ISBN: 9781936639755
- 8.25" x 10.5"
- hardcover with dust jacket
- 120 pages
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- ISBN: 9781472971326
- Softcover, 189 pages.
- 5.5 x 8.5 inches.
- The Joy of God contains the collected writings of Sister Mary David Totah, a Benedictine nun of the Solesmes Congregation, on Benedictine spirituality.
- Click here for a preview.
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- Leather hardback
- Baronius Press
- 320 Pages
- 4" x 6"
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- Gregorian Chant CD in honor of the Most Holy Trinity, recorded by the Benedictine nuns of Our Lady of Ephesus.
- 21 Tracks.
- Total playing time 64:05
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- This deluxe hardcover edition of J.R.R. Tolkien's classic prelude to his Lord of the Rings trilogy contains a short introduction by Christopher Tolkien, a reset text incorporating the most up-to-date corrections, and all of Tolkien’s own drawings and full-color illustrations, including the rare “Mirkwood” piece.
- ISBN: 9780618968633
- Hardcover, 300 pages, 5.5. x 8.5 inches.
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- The Guillotine and the Cross, by Warren H. Carroll
- ISBN: 9780931888458
- Paperback, 5.5 x 8.5 inches.
- 203 pages.
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- In this new edition of a classic work, the great Catholic apologist and historian Hilaire Belloc examines the five most destructive heretical movements in Christianity.
- ISBN: 9781621641384
- Softcover, 196 pages, 5.25 x 8"
- Originally published in 1938.
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- In The Great Divorce, C.S. Lewis again employs his formidable talent for fable and allegory. The writer finds himself in Hell boarding a bus bound for Heaven.
- ISBN: 9780060652951
- Softcover, 146 pages, 5.5 x 8 inches.
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- Mediations on St. Benedict's Twelve Degrees of Humility by Dom Pius Mary Noonan, OSB.
- ISBN: 9780648868828
- Softcover, 5.25 x 8"
- 83 pages.
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- ISBN: 9781944418601
- Softcover, 133 pages.
- 5 x 8 in (13 x 20 cm).
- Inspiring meditations by Thomistic Theologian Romanus Cessario, OP, on the grace to be a priest.
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- Inspired by Benedict XVI's vision of the history of the Church, Joseph Pearce in The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful, traces three strands interwoven in Church History: The Good Saints, The Bad Persecutors, and The Beautiful Art.
- Published in 2023 and read in the refectory of Clear Creek Abbey beginning in January 2024.
- ISBN: 9781621645344
- Softcover, 309 pages, 5.25 x 8"
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- The Glory of Christendom: A History of Christendom, volume 3 by Warren H. Carroll
- ISBN: 9780931888540
- Paperback, 6 x 9 inches.
- 774 pages.
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- C. S. Lewis's classic work The Four Loves examines the four types of human love: affection, friendship, erotic love, and the love of God.
- ISBN: 9780062565396
- Softcover, 180 pages, 5.5 x 8 inches
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- The Founding of Christendom: A History of Christendom, volume 1 by Warren H. Carroll
- ISBN: 9780931888212
- Paperback, 6 x 9 inches.
- 605 pages.
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- ISBN: 9780895551993
- Pages: 250
- Binding: Paperbound
- Dimensions: 5.5" X 8.5"
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- The beloved G.K. Chesterton presents a well-crafted and joyous work of political fantasy about a small group of rebels who rail against the government’s attempt to impose prohibition in England.
- ISBN: 9781621641032
- Softcover, 295 pages, 5.25 x 8 inches
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- Structured around Tolkien’s Middle-earth creation myth, The Flame Imperishable follows the thought of Aquinas as a guide in laying bare the deeper foundations of many of the more familiar themes from Tolkien’s legendarium, including such notions as sub-creation, free will, evil, and eucatastrophe.
- ISBN: 9781621383154
- Softcover, 289 pages, 6 x 9 inches.
- Published in 2017.
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- According to the author, A Father's Tale is a modern retelling of the parables of The Good Shepherd and The Prodigal Son.
- ISBN: 9781621643654
- Softcover, 1076 pages, 5.25 x 8 inches.
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- Considered by many to be Chesterton's greatest masterpiece of all his writings, this is his whole view of world history as informed by the Incarnation.
- ISBN: 9780898704440
- Softcover, 276 pages, 5.25 x 8 inches.
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- ISBN: 9781944418175
- Softcover, 288 pages.
- 5.5 x 8.5 inches.
- Read in the refectory of Clear Creek, October-December 2021.
- The English Way is a compilation of the lives of great English saints by some of the greatest English writers of the 20th century.
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- Leather Hardback
- Baronius Press
- 272 Pages
- 6" x 8.25"
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- The Deliverance of Sister Cecilia is a faith-filled, action-packed true story of a Slovakian nun who lived through the Communist take over of her country which she heroically resisted.
- Read in the refectory at Clear Creek Abbey starting in February 2023.
- Softcover, 344 pages, 5 x 8 inches.
- Click here to read a sample.
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Special offer!Save when you buy the two masterpieces of John Senior, a professor who greatly influenced the founding monks of Clear Creek!
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- Leather Hardback
- Baronius Press
- 6" x 8.25"
- 584 Pages
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- ISBN: 9781505122848
- Hardcover, 5 x 7 inches
- 102 pages.
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- The Crisis of Christendom: A History of Christendom, volume 6 by Warren H. Carroll
- ISBN: 9780931888847
- Paperback, 6 x 9 inches.
- 895 pages.
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- The Cleaving of Christendom: A History of Christendom, volume 4 by Warren H. Carroll
- ISBN: 9780931888755
- Paperback, 6 x 9 inches.
- 801 pages.
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- Experience all of The Chronicles of Narnia in full color in this seven-book paperback box set.
- ISBN: 9780064409391
- Softcover, seven volumes with color illustrations.
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- ISBN: 9780860124627
- 6. 5 x 9.5 inches
- 498 pages
- Compiled and edited by Adrian Fortescue, J.B. O'Connell, and Dom Alcuin Reid.
- Includes detailed rubrics and details on numerous aspects of the 1962 liturgy, including pontifical, solemn and low Mass, Vespers, Holy Week and the liturgical years, the sacraments, Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament, funerals, episcopal visitation and more.
- A must-have for priests and sacristans wishing to celebrate the traditional liturgy!
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- ISBN: 9780824524142
- The Catholic Martyrs of the Twentieth Century by Robert Royal is a fascinating, edifying, and eye-opening view of the panorama of martyrs of the past century.
- The monks of Clear Creek have read this book in the refectory August - November 2023.
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- The Building of Christendom: A History of Christendom, volume 2 by Warren H. Carroll
- ISBN: 9780931888243
- Paperback, 6 x 9 inches.
- 615 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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- In this #1 international bestseller, a young woman leaves everything behind to work as a librarian in a remote French village, where she finds her outlook on life and love challenged in every way. Inspired by John Senior who had much influence on the founding of Clear Creek Abbey.
- ISBN: 9781476734248
- Softcover, 258 pages, 5.5 x 8.5"
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- Here is Chesterton in his own words, in a book he preferred not to write, but did so near the end of his life after much insistence by friends and admirers.
- ISBN: 9781586170714
- Softcover, 336 pages, 5.25 x 8 inches.
- Includes photgraphs.
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- Gregorian Chant for the feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary by the monks of Fontgombault.
- 20 tracks, 54 minutes total.
- Available as a physical CD with booklet.
- Click here to view booklet.
- Sample:
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- ISBN: 9781329973763
- Softcover, 54 pages.
- 5.5 x 8.5 in (14 x 21,5 cm).
- Follow the offices of Terce, Sext, and None according to the Monastic Breviary of 1962 in Latin and English.
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- Tales from the Perilous Realm is the perfect opportunity for fans of Middle-earth to enjoy some of Tolkien’s often overlooked yet most creative storytelling. Includes Adventures of Bombadil, Smith of Wootton Major and Leaf by Niggle.
- ISBN: 9780358652960
- Softcover, 403 pages, 5.5 x 8.5 inches
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- ISBN: 9780940112193
- pages: 32
- hardcover
- 8 x 11.5 in
- full color illustrations
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- ISBN: 9782956905509
- softcover, saddle-stitched booklet
- 3.5 x 5 inches
- 68 pages
- Black text with Gregorian Chant notation and red rubrics
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- As he recounts his lifelong search for joy, C. S. Lewis demonstrates its role in guiding him to find God.
- ISBN: 9780062565433
- Softcover, 291 pages, 5.5 x 8 inches.
