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Chaplain Mark O'Reilly writes from experience in Sparta, Michigan. These books offer a grounded faith and a listening heart for your hardest days.
Books born from walking alongside
These pages come from years of bedside listening in Sparta. Each one extends the same steady, faith-grounded presence you'd find sitting across from me.
Books by Chaplain Mark O'Reilly
Each book grows out of the same listening work Mark does in Sparta, written for seasons when words feel hard to find.
Understanding the Unseen Wounds
A faith-grounded guide to naming and healing the hidden emotional and spiritual hurts we carry.
Presence at the Threshold
A chaplain's journey through death, grief, and grace.
You Are Not Alone
Recognizing and healing from abuse.
Triangle of Fear
By Mark O'Reilly MACC.
The Foxes Have Holes
But the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.
Who is a Christian Husband
By Mark O'Reilly MACC.
Spirituality Isn't a Straight Line
Listening for lived Spirit in Autistic rhythm.
On Our Knees: Interceding for Those Who Shepherd
This is not a book about how to pray. It is a book about how to remain. Across thirty chapters, On Our Knees, Still explores the quiet landscape of pastoral life. From ordination without fanfare to sabbaticals that challenge us, from retirements that bring release to the long seasons where ministry deepens away from public view. Through each transition, Chaplain Mark O'Reilly guides readers toward a practice of intercession that values presence over performance. Written for companions, chaplains, caregivers, and all who kneel beside those who are weary, this work provides liturgies for what cannot be spoken, reflections for those who feel misunderstood, and prayers that hold rather than attempt to fix. This is a book built on restraint, faithfulness, and the quiet discipline of staying low. Whether you serve as a shepherd, practice intercession, or are learning to bless what cannot be resolved, this book will not ask you to rise. It will ask you to remain.
You don't need to finish it alone. You just need to start.
You can open the book on your own, but you don't have to walk through what it stirs up alone. Order now and we can talk about it afterwards.