- 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.
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- "The shepherd cannot run at the first sign of danger." Father Stanley Rother was true to his word. He did not run. And he was martyred at the age of 46.
- ISBN: 9781681924564
- Softcover, 6 x 9 inches, 256 pages, with color photographs.
- The biography of Oklahoma's own martyr and the first U.S. priest to be beatified.
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- Simply and reverently, Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen meditates upon the Incarnation and Nativity of Jesus Christ, Son of the Most High, born in a lowly stable in Bethlehem of Judah, and the significance it bears and salvation it offers for each man, woman, and child.
- ISBN: 9781685953614
- Hardcover, 32 pages with color illustrations.
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- Beautifully illustrated by Gordon Laite, Mildred Corell Luckhardt’s Good King Wenceslas is certain to delight readers both young and old with its story of Christian kindness and Christmas joy.
- ISBN: 9781685953638
- Hardcover, 6 x 9 inches, 100 pages with color illustrations.
- 2024 reprint of 1964 edition.
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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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- Little Jamie in Paradise is a story for children of all ages about the life of the Blessed in Heaven. Full of charm, simplicity, yet deep theological insights, this story of a young boy’s death and entry into Paradise is a unique work will delight hearts and raise the eyes of the soul to heavenly things.
- ISBN: 9798988731146
- Hardcover, 30 pages, 6 x 9 inches.
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- Ildefonso Schuster, one of the outstanding ecclesiastical scholars of the twentieth century, has fitted St. Benedict into the times in which he lived, using the Dialogues of St. Gregory the Great as his point of departure.
- ISBN: 9781989905463
- Softcover, 396 pages, 6 x 9 inches.
- Reprint of the 1951 English edition.
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- ISBN: 9781505122848
- Hardcover, 5 x 7 inches
- 102 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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- This volume contains the entire ferial Office for the day Hours (Lauds, Prime, Terce, Sext, None, Vespers, and Compline) according to the Roman Breviary of 1568.
- Latin only, with musical notation. No English translation.
- ISBN: 9798860889941
- Softcover, 235 pages, 6 x 9 inches.
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- In honor of their silver jubilee, the Monks of Our Lady of Clear Creek Abbey present this booklet commemorating the founding of the monastery back in 1999, complete with many historic photos.
- Preview the book here!
- ISBN: 9798988731139
- Softcover, 32 pages, full color, 8 x 10"
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- While Dom Gueranger published many liturgical and spiritual works, this highly personal account of his early life and events surrounding the foundation of Solesmes in 1833 was never intended for publication, and indeed was never completed. It is now available in English, published in 2009.
- Softcover, 255 pages, 5.5 x 8.5 inches.
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- In Saga of Saints, the account of Christianity’s introduction into Norway and those responsible for defending its development, Sigrid Undset proves herself a resourceful historian of both events and ideas. As the product of Undset’s patriotic piety and native talent for storytelling, Saga of Saints is—in the words of her biographer A. H. Winsnes—“remarkable for her sure critical sense in the treatment of sources and, above all, for her ability to judge men and their conduct in relation to the age and society in which they lived.”
- ISBN: 9781685951399
- Softcover, 262 pages, 5.5 x 8.5 inches.
- A newly-typeset edition; originally published in 1934.
- Read in the refectory at Clear Creek Abbey beginning in June 2024.
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- As she examines the many misconceptions about the "Middle Ages", the renowned French historian, Regine Pernoud, gives the reader a refreshingly original perspective on many subjects.
- Softcover, 5.25 x 8 inches, 179 pages.
- Read in the refectory at Clear Creek during the midday meal starting in June 2024.
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- While the first level of Laus in Ecclesia is for beginners, the second level is aimed at chorists, that is, those who are already familiar with Gregorian chant and have received from the Church the mission to sing in her name the melodies contained in the liturgical books during celebrations.
- Spiral bound, 9.25 x 7.25 inches, 355 pages.
- Translated by a monk of Clear Creek and used by the monks to learn Gregorian Chant.
- Click here to view the table of contents
- Click here to preview the book.
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- A fascinating autobiography in the spirit of Bl. John Henry Newman, Drawn from Shadows Into Truth: A Memoir is the intriguing story of how a married minister in the Disciples of Christ eventually came to be an ordained priest in the Catholic Church.
- Softcover, 6 x 9 inches, 256 pages.
