St B's Web-links of Faith and Knowledge
For Daily Prayer with the Church
Fortunately we can access some of the riches of the Church's daily liturgical life - the daily Mass and daily prayers and readings from the Liturgy of the Hours on some internet sites.
-For some of the
prayers of the Liturgy of the Hours and some of the beautiful Readings,
visit and pray at Universalis.
-For a lovely meditation on the daily Mass
gospel reading of God's Word, visit and pray at Daily
Gospel Reflections (and you can sign up to get these reflections sent to you
in daily email!).
-The
Patron Saints Index (a
tremendous amount on numerous saints, including biographies, prayers, images. A
rich site! Its parent site, too, Catholic
Community Forum has many fine resources).
-For a truly beautifully printed and delightful companion of
prayer and reflections for the Mass of the day and some of the Liturgy
of the Hours, you may wish to subscribe to (or order a complimentary
copy of) Magnificat (highly
recommended!)
-A page brimming
with wonderful resources for prayer, put together by a Catholic
priest, at Awakening to
Prayer - much to cherish and relish here!
Benedictine/Monastic/Communities: Resources
-The successful program for troubled youth,
ADELPHOI VILLAGE - founded by our
own Father Paschal Morlino, OSB.
-For a huge and
well-established site with rich resources about all things Benedictine, visit
the Order of St Benedict, and from there you can go to lots of other
sites with many resources.
-Saint
Vincent Archabbey - the priests who serve Saint Benedict's come from this
monastery in Latrobe PA. --
-Saint Emma Monastery and Retreat Center -
in Greensburg PA - has had a close relationship with Saint Vincent's Archabbey
-The great Benedictine Abbey
of Solesmes, famous for its Gregorian chant, has an interesting site.
-The new monastic community of Clear
Creek, Oklahoma, a daughter house of
Abbey Notre Dame de Fontgombault in France, which, in turn, is a
daughter of Solesmes..
-The monks who are featured on the best selling CD
Chant series have a website for their monastery of Santo
Domingo de Silos.
-A fascinating website for the Abbaye de
Keur Moussa in Senegal, Africa.
-another fascinating monastic venture of "inculturation" in
India: The Kurisumala
Ashram.
-An Abbey with an emphasis on the Latin Liturgy, Regina
Laudis, in Bethlehem Ct.
-A beautiful website for the Abbey
of St Cecilia on Ryde Isle of Wight.
-Another rather "flashy" site is for a
rather, it seems, traditional Benedictine monastery, Farnborough
Abbey.
-Similar in style to the above is the website of
the female Benedictine community of Tyburn
Convent.
-Visit the website of the famous Dual-Rite
Monastery (Roman and Byzantine) of Chevetogne.
-The Carthusian Order
has a fascinating history and webpage.
-Another monastic community - with a
unique vocation in the Church - offers Liturgies full of reverence and deep
beauty: The Monastic Fraternities of Jerusalem
(in French, and now some in English and other
languages) and, if you are able to access video
on your PC, you may be able to watch or download videos of the Daily Offices of
this community by accessing the website for the Catholic
TV Station in Paris (the Offices are magnificent as you see for yourself if
you are able to watch them!)
-One of the several growing and influential "new
communities" of France is the Community
of the Beatitudes.
-Another monastic community with great
influence, especially with the young, is the ecumenical community of Taize
France (known, too, for its prayer and music).
-Another ecumenical community,
"in the Benedictine tradition", is
The Community of Jesus.
Check out their new church - the basilica of the
Transfiguration. Wow!
-Surprising monastic venture from Greek
Orthodox monks in Greece.
-The female monastic community of
Granchamp in France, with Protestant roots.
Catholic Faith and Practice
-The Holy Bible is the font of the Church's faith and worship -- the Word of God.
-The Catechism of Catholic Church is a grand summary of the Church's faith of the ages for today and tomorrow.
-The Second Vatican Council has been pivotal for the Church entering the New Millennium and yet, perhaps, to bear its richest fruit.
-The Code of Canon Law, Latin Church is a needed codification for many dimensions of the Church on her journey in time and in history, and needed for good order and discipline.
General Catholic Links
-How good to have the official site of our Catholic Church at The Holy See and the Vatican.
-Mother Angelica's evangelization includes not only cable TV, radio, and books, but an exciting internet presence, too, at Eternal Word Television Network--resources a-plenty for faith and devotion and a huge library too--plus daily Catholic news.
-The largest fraternal organization in the Catholic world, The Knights of Columbus, has a fine site with good resources.
-Kevin Knight has put up a site with an incredible amount of pages, including a growing portion of the great work of Catholic scholarship, The Catholic Encyclopedia (1913) at New Advent Site.
-A pioneering site dedicated to electronic evangelization, with many resources and discussion mailing lists is the Catholic Information Network (CIN).
-Another site with resources and a good number of discussion mailing lists is the site, CatholiCity.
- A friend of St Benedict, Marcellino D'Ambrosio, Ph.D., has an apostolate and a fine website The Crossroads Initiative.
-Another pioneering and immense site, with an abundance of great Catholic art, architecture, culture and innumerable links can be found at Christus Rex.
-A good collection of Catholic links (from a non-Catholic but who is on the way--and say a prayer for her) is at the site called One Holy Catholic and Apostolic. (Just re-visited this site and, sure enough, on Easter 2000, she was received into the Catholic Church - allelulia!)
-An amazing site for information on a huge numbers of the saints, put together by Kathy Rabenstein for her parish of St Patrick's in D.C.
-A Baltimore native has put together some wonderful materials on the saints at The Feast of All Saints.
-A good site for resources - with links for daily updates for liturgy and news and more - is A Catholic Start Page.
-Here's a rather extensive and helpful collection of Catholic Prayers and links to a few other Prayer pages as well.
-For
an amazing assortment of links to Catholic doctrine and apologetics,
and other areas of interest, Dave Armstrong maintains a growing site at Biblical
Defense of Catholicism.
-Steven Hand maintains a helpful site, Traditional
Catholic Reflections and Reports (TCR).
-Jeff Mirus maintains a site with evaluations of Catholic websites and a terrific array of Catholic documents, some not easily found elsewhere and more at Catholic Culture.
-A marvelous site dedicated to Catholic social teaching and "orthopraxis" (right living and righteousness) can be explored at Robert Waldrop's always updated JustPeace Frontpage.
-Hopefully, my own website A Catholic Page for Lovers might be of some help and inspiration.
Famous Catholics
+Gilbert
Keith Chesterton (and others!)
+Mother Teresa of Calcutta
+John Henry Newman - with many of
his writings
+Charles de Foucauld
- a great Catholic hero!
Catholic News
+EWTN
News Line
+ZENIT: The World as Seen from Rome
+Vatican
Information Service
+Catholic Nexus
Some Online Catholic Journals
+First Things - edited by priest-convert, Fr Richard John Neuhaus. His "Public Square" editorials are very popular!
+Crisis - edited by Deal Hudson. Another sign of a Catholic renaissance!
+Inside the Vatican - edited by Robert Moynihan. But online edition lacks the magnificent photographs that make this interesting journal so stunningly beautiful.
Archdiocese of Baltimore
-The Archdiocese of Baltimore. Most Archdiocesan parish websites can be accessed from this site.
-For a catch up on some local and universal Catholic news there's the Archdiocesan Newspaper The Catholic Review.
-The Basilica of the Assumption
-The Cathedral of Mary Our Queen.
Other churches in Maryland:
-The Greek Orthodox Cathedral of the Annuciation
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