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About Paraclete Press
Who We Are
Paraclete Press is an ecumenical publisher of books and recordings on Christian spirituality. Our publishing represents a full expression of Christian belief and practice—from Catholic to Evangelical, from Protestant to Orthodox.
Paraclete Press is the publishing arm of the Community of Jesus, an ecumenical monastic community in the Benedictine tradition. As such, we are uniquely positioned in the marketplace without connection to a large corporation and with informal relationships to many branches and denominations of faith.
We like it best when people buy our books from booksellers, our partners in successfully reaching as wide an audience as possible.
What We Are Doing
Books
Paraclete Press publishes books that show the richness and depth of what it means to be Christian. Although Benedictine spirituality is at the heart of all that we do, we publish books that reflect the Christian experience across many cultures, time periods, and houses of worship.
We publish books that nourish the vibrant life of the church and its people— books about spiritual practice, formation, history, ideas, and customs.
We have several different series of books within Paraclete Press, including the bestselling Living Library series of modernized classic texts; A Voice from the Monastery—giving voice to men and women monastics about what it means to live a spiritual life today; award winning literary faith fiction; and books that explore Judaism and Islam and discover how these faiths inform Christian thought and practice.
Recordings
From Gregorian chant to contemporary American choral works, our music recordings celebrate the richness of sacred choral music through the centuries. Paraclete is proud to distribute the recordings of the internationally acclaimed choir Glorias Dei Cantores, who have been praised for their “rapt and fathomless spiritual intensity” by American Record Guide, and the Gloria Dei Cantores Schola, which specializes in the study and performance of Gregorian chant. Paraclete is also the exclusive North American distributor of the Monastic Choir of St. Peter’s Abbey in Solesmes, France, long considered to be a leading authority on Gregorian chant performance.
Learn more about us at our Web site:
www.paracletepress.com, or call us toll-free at
1–800–451–5006.
Also Available
INCANDESCENCE
365 Readings with Women Mystics
Carmen Acevedo Butcher
296 pages
ISBN: 1–55725–418–4
$16.95, Trade Paper
Turn to any page in this beautiful collection and you will discover the women mystics of Christian tradition. These fascinating women offer a way to peace, laughter, love, and connection with each other, and they show us a picture of a tender, nurturing, forgiving God who is as intimate as our own breath.
Incandescence offers fresh translations from the writings of famous and not-so-famous mystics—Julian of Norwich, Mechthild of Magdeburg, Catherine of Siena, Hildegard of Bingen, Gertrude of Helfta, Margery Kempe, and others.
“In these pages, the images of the spiritual life are the erotic ones of the feminine experience. They are the stuff of very physically present women who loved their Lord with a ferocity and passion that could be reported only in those experiences of the flesh . . . there is peace here in the company of these good women.”
—from the foreword by Phyllis Tickle
THE LURE OF SAINTS
A Protestant Experience of Catholic Tradition
Jon M. Sweeney
240 pages
ISBN: 1–55725–419–2
$21.95, Hardcover
This compelling guide includes profiles of ancient,
medieval, and modern figures, East and West, the sublime
and the unusual, with special chapters exploring:
* Differences between Catholic and Protestant imaginations.
* How saints were made in the past and how they are today.
* Devotions and spiritual practices.
* The radical triumph of the Protestant idea.
* Miracles, doubt, and belief.
* Tears, pain, foolishness, apparitions, stigmata, and stranger saintly behavior.
“A satisfying blend of the concrete
(prayers, a list of feast days, ten steps to living like a saint) with Sweeney’s
personal observations and historical information.”
—Publishers Weekly
Available from most booksellers or through Paraclete Press:
www.paracletepress.com; 1–800–451–5006.
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