Spiritual Resources
Welcome!
Below is a collection of resources to aid you in your daily spiritual journey. If you are looking for Advent specific resources, click here.
DAILY PRAYERS
Prayer for Spiritual Protection (Carmelite Invocation)
Liturgy of the Hours (Morning Prayer, Evening Prayer)
Our Lady of Monte Berico, Novena (Archbishop Aquila’s Petition)
CONFESSION
HOW TO DO SPIRITUAL COMMUNION
Read the opening prayer of the day’s Mass
Mass readings for the day
Allow time for meditation on the readings
Intercessions and petitions (what you offer your own spiritual sacrifice for)
Take time to make simple acts of faith, hope and love: it can be as simple as saying, 'Lord, I believe You, I adore You, and I love You.
Our Father...
In a moment of silence ask the Lord to come into your heart more profoundly, to receive the effects of the Sacrament of Holy Communion.
Sample: “My Jesus, I believe that You are present in the Most Holy Sacrament. I love You above all things, and I desire to receive You into my soul. Since I cannot at this moment receive You sacramentally, come at least spiritually into my heart. I embrace You as if You were already there and unite myself wholly to You. Never permit me to be separated from You. Amen”
Concluding prayer.
Sample: "May the Lord + bless us, protect us from all evil and bring us to everlasting life. Amen."
ANOINTING OF THE SICK
(For those who are in danger of death because of illness or old age).
To reach a priest in an emergency or if you have symptoms of COVID-19, call 303-678-7608.
Read this article: "Healing ‘the Whole Man, Soul and Body, The importance of the sacrament of anointing of the sick.
MASS TEXTS AND READINGS
Magnificat (free online version)
Give Us This Day (free online version)
USCCB (for daily readings, click on the calendar)
Breviary (for Liturgy of the Hours, and Daily Mass texts)
CATHOLIC SPEAKERS: YOUTUBE
PODCASTS
Worth listening to
Lanky Guys Word on the Hill: Fr. Peter Mussett and Scott Powell
All Things Catholic, by Ed. Sri
GodSplaining, by the Dominican Friars
Let Love, by the Sisters of Life
Every Knee Shall Bow, by Michael Gormley and Dave VanVickle