- 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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- Here, together in a single volume, are the two biographies that many critics consider both Chesterton's best, and the best short portraits ever written of Saint Dominic and Francis.
- ISBN: 9780898709452
- Softcover, 320 pages, 5.25 x 8 inches.
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- The Silmarillion is the history of the rebellion of Fëanor and his kindred against the gods, their exile from Valinor and return to Middle-earth, and their war, hopeless despite all the heroism, against the great Enemy. It is the ancient drama to which the characters in The Lord of the Rings look back, and in whose events some of them such as Elrond and Galadriel took part.
- This deluxe hardcover edition includes Tolkien's own paintings and drawings, which reveal the breathtaking grandeur and beauty of his vision of the First Age of Middle-earth.
- ISBN: 9780063280779
- 6 x 9 inches, 358 pages, includes maps.
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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, 1178 pages, 5.5 x 8.5 inches.
- Includes Appendices, Index and Maps.
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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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- In writing this work, Mother Mary Francis, P.C.C., carefully and prayerfully examined the decree on religious life promulgated by Vatican II and uncovered its noble meaning and purpose.
- ISBN: 9781586171193
- softcover, 118 pages, 5.25 x 8"
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- In He Gave Us So Much, Cardinal Sarah traces the spiritual contours of Benedict XVI's life and thought, revealing the image of a man on fire with love for God and neighbor.
- ISBN: 9781621646846
- Hardcover, 231 pages, 5.5 x 8.25"
- Published in 2023.
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- ISBN: 9781960711120
- A Brief Introduction to the Traditional Latin Mass by Joseph Shaw.
- 2023 edition
- Paperback
- 84 pages, 4 x 6"
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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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- 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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- The impact of Tolkien's great notoriety, his relationship with material possessions, and his deep religious faith are all examined at length in this biography, making it possible to understand both the man and the myth that he created.
- ISBN: 9780898708257
- Softcover, 257 pages.
- 5 x 8 inches
- Read in the refectory at Clear Creek September-October 2022
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- ISBN: 9781505122848
- Hardcover, 5 x 7 inches
- 102 pages.
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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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- Here is a list of 100 books to read before you die with short reviews written by lay people of all ages and walks of life.
- ISBN: 9781621382683
- Softcover, 6 x9"
- 306 pages.
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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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- 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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- Encouraging humility, patience, prayer, introspection, and love, the Desert Fathers and Mothers have influenced centuries of believers, showing how contemplative practice can reveal the true meaning of everyday life.
- ISBN: 9781557257802
- Softcover, 5.25 x 8"
- 129 pages.
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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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- Mother Mary Francis sets out to correct the record with the truth and beauty of the vocation to the contemplative life by toppling the “strange gods” that have assumed majesty and power in the post-modern age.
- ISBN: 9781685952495
- First published in 1965. New edition 2023.
- Softcover, 192 pages, 5.5 x 8.5"
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- ISBN: 9780898704785
- The fast-paced, moving conversion story of the evangelical preacher and scripture scholar Scott Hahn.
- The monks of Clear Creek are reading this in the refectory, starting in August 2022.
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- Thomas Aquinas: A Historical, Theological, and Environmental Portrait.
- ISBN: 9780809153862
- Softcover, 404 pages.
- Read in the Refectory at Clear Creek beginning in February 2022.
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- ISBN: 9781619705036
- Hard leather cover
- 5.5 x 7.5 inches, 789 pages
- Novum Testamentum Latine or Latin New Testament is Latin only, with the text of the New Vulgate
- Published by Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 3rd edition 2014
- Includes maps
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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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- 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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- 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 Bilbo's Journey, Joseph Pearce goes beyond the dragons, dwarves, and elves, and discover the surprisingly deep meaning of J.R.R. Tolkien's classic novel The Hobbit.
- ISBN: 9781618900586
- Softcover, 142 pages, 5.5 x 8.5 inches.
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- The Spiritual Life of the Priest focuses on the practical aspects of the priest’s interior life such as mental prayer, the prayerful recitation of the Office, the devout celebration of the Mass, Marian devotion and consecration, recreation and the exercise of self-denial. The book concludes with chapters that provide theological foundations for the interior life, so that priests can truly live their priesthood as friends of Christ.
- ISBN: 9781905574933
- Hardcover, 5.5 x 8.5", 167 pages.
- See all the works of Dom Eugene Boylan here.
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- ISBN: 9781621643555
- Softcover, 143 pages
- 5.5 x 8 inches
- True Friendship: Where Virtue Meets Happpiness
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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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- ISBN: 9781644136188
- Softcover, 238 pages, 5.5 x 8.5 inches.
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- This unique collection of Father Brown mysteries links tales by G.K. Chesterton with the Ten Commandments.
- ISBN: 9781621640356
- Softcover, 251 pages, 5.25 x 8 inches.
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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 crystallized excerpts in God Is Ever New are drawn from lectures, speeches, homilies, and documents across the course of Benedict XVI's papacy. Each grants a glimpse of a God who is full of surprises, never dull.
- ISBN: 9781621646525
- Hardcover, 161 pages, 5.5 x 8.25"
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- In The Life of Union with Mary, Father Neubert not only gives the dogmatic basis for union with Mary, but details methods of working at and achieving it.
- Originally written in French in 1954, translated and published in 1959. Reprinted in 2014.
- ISBN: 9781601140661
- Softcover, 294 pages
- 5.5 x 8.5"
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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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- For Eternity: Restoring the Priesthood and our Spiritual Fatherhood by Robert Cardinal Sarah.
- ISBN: 9781682782910
- Hardcover, 256 pages
- 8.5 x 5.5 inches
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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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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 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.
