The best-selling books at La Procure at the moment

Résumé : Augustin Frison-Roche, Klincksieck, January 2025. Presentation of the painter’s work devoted to religious themes, from the Apocalypse to the Magi, including Creation. Find it in bookstores.

Résumé : Collective, Place des Victoires, January 2025. In the reference collection The Grace of a Cathedral, the best specialists, historians, architects and theologians look back on the metamorphoses of Notre-Dame throughout its history and on the challenge represented by its reconstruction using clear and with a rich iconography. Find it in bookstores.

Résumé : Jean de Saint-Cheron, Grasset, January 2025. Yvonne Beauvais dedicated her life to the poor at a very young age and became a nun at the age of 26 at the Augustines monastery in Malestroit. During the Second World War, she hid resistance fighters and was arrested by the Gestapo. A mystic, she is subject throughout her life to extraordinary phenomena such as visions, stigmata and bilocation. Find it in bookstores.

Résumé : Pope Francis, “He loved us”, Cerf, 2024. Encyclical available from several publishers. Apostolic exhortation devoted to this theme published on the occasion of the jubilee of the appearances of Christ to Saint Marguerite-Marie in Paray-le-Monial. Find it in bookstores.

Résumé : Étienne Méténier, Edition of the Beatitudes, November 2024. Much more than a “new” translation of the Gospels, this work is the first complete translation ever made of manuscripts containing the four Gospels in the text state closest to the oral language which was current at the time of Christ. The abundant notes and tables put the text within everyone’s reach. They are a true school of reading the Word in the Jewish way, introducing us to Semitic thought and constantly referring to the Scriptures and Jewish tradition. This new light shed on the Gospel nourishes our prayer life, our Christian life, and, quite simply, our human life. Find it in bookstores.

Résumé : Paul-Adrien d’Hardemare, Mame, September 2024. Aimed at young adults, information to explain what the Catholic faith is. The author mentions in particular prayer, the sacraments, the Bible, relationships with other religions and even eternal life. QR codes provide access to online content. Find it in bookstores.

Résumé : Thomas Römer, Labor et Fides, January 2025. A presentation of the Bible and the challenges of reading it in light of its multiplicity, both a collection of writings from different eras, a sacred text, an instrument of authority, among others. The author relates the role of the Bible in history and lists the contradictions for a better understanding. Find it in bookstores.

Résumé : Henri d’Anselme, Fayard, December 2023. Testimony from the author on the tour of France of cathedrals which he carried out in order to make this cultural and religious heritage known. Find it in bookstores.

Résumé : Pope Francis, Cerf, December 2024. The synthesis of 155 articles proposing a reform of Church governance, in favor of better access for women to important positions, the establishment of diocesan synods, an ecclesial disability observatory, among others . Find it in bookstores.

Résumé : Anne-Dauphine Julliand, Les Arènes, October 2024. The author lost her two daughters, Thaïs and Azylis, to an orphan disease. Fifteen years later, his eldest son committed suicide. Her husband and their last child Arthur are facing new grief. In this story, she questions her present and seeks to understand how her life and that of her family can continue despite everything. Find it in bookstores.