Websites for Carmelite Spirituality & Instruction

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Carmelite Spirituality

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  • Holy Spirit Catholic Church Web Site
    Information about Holy Spirit Parish, an active and diverse Catholic community in Fremont, California. Holy Spirit sponsors the Our Lady of Mercy Lay Carmelite Community, which maintains the olmlaycarmelites.org web site.
  • Catholic Encyclopedia
    More than 11,000 articles on Catholic topics...everything from Aaron (the brother of Moses) to Zwettl (the Cistercian abbey in Austria).
  • Catholic Answers.
    Catholic Answers is the largest Catholic apologetics and evangelization organization in North America. Their site is among the best and most comprehensive of the Catholics sites on the Internet. It features a large library of online answer tracts, personal and insightful newsletters, a number of their popular booklets, and an audio archive of their popular radio programs "Catholic Answers Live" and "The Doctor is In." This site is well worth frequent and extended visits.
  • EWTN (Eternal Word Television Network)
    This is the home page of Mother Angelica's ministry on the Internet. The site contains extensive information about EWTN's television programs and scheduling, but there is also much more. Some of its best features include up to date Catholic news, a great question and answer section, and a library of Church documents. This is a mega-site for Catholics, with a multitude of information all in one place.
  • USCCB (United States Conference of Catholic Bishops)
    Official website containing information about U.S. Catholic Bishops, including latest news, Church documents, life issues, the Catechism, a directory of the Bishops, and more. Also provides the Daily and Sunday Mass readings for several months in advance in both text and audio, with video reflections.
  • Savior.org: Visit the Savior
    Savior.org's mission is that of increasing awareness and devotion to our Lord in the Most Blessed Sacrament. They seek to bring the live image of His living Presence to the homebound, the workplace, and to remote areas around the world. They also provide a low-bandwidth version of the Blessed Sacrament that you can display on your desktop so you can use this site for "online adoration".
  • Universalis
    This website provides background on the Liturgy of the Hours and the complete text of all the hours for each day of the year.
  • Carmel Prays
    The Carmelites of the Province of the Most Pure Heart of Mary created this website and have provided users with audio, video, and text to pray Night Prayer (“Compline”) every night since November 2020. We continue to produce audio and visual texts for "the Sant'Angelo-Style" Morning and Evening Prayer for each day of the year and music for meditation use. We are also planning to develop a mobile app for our users.
  • USCCB (United States Conference of Catholic Bishops)
    Official website containing information about U.S. Catholic Bishops, including latest news, Church documents, life issues, the Catechism, a directory of the Bishops, and more. Also provides the Daily and Sunday Mass readings for several months in advance in both text and audio, with video reflections.