The Curé d'Ars Prayer Group

Curé D'Ars

• Saint John Mary Vianney
  (Catholic Encyclopedia)
  
• The Curé D'ars (Pope John Paul II)
  
• Catechism on the Priesthood (St. John Vianney)


• St. John Vianney's blueprint for the priesthood back in favour(Fr. John Cihak)
  

• Sanctuary of Ars
  
• Sermons of the Cure of Ars (exerpts)
  
• The Life of Saint John Vianney (Paolo Risso)
  

Priesthood

Church Documents

• On the Catholic Priesthood (Pope Pius XI)


• Sacerdotii Nostri Primordia (Pope John XXIII)


• Ordinatio Sacerdotalis (Pope John Paul II)


• On the Bishop (Pope John Paul II)


• Holy Hour for Priests ( Pope Pius XII)


• On the Development of Holiness in Priestly Life (Pius XII)

• Cardinal Hummes on Priesthood


• On the Celibacy of the Priest (Pope Paul VI)


• The Priest, Pastor and Leader of the Parish Community (Pope John Paul II)


• The Eucharist and the Priest (Congregation for the Clergy)


• Priesthood (Church Fathers)


• Adoration, reparation, spiritual motherhood for Priests (Congregation for the Clergy)


• Letter for the sanctification of the Clergy (Congregation for the Clergy)

Articles

• The Priesthood (Catholic Encyclopedia)


• Priestly Ordination (Fr. Most)


• The Personal Example of the Parish Priest Is What Attracts Vocations (Fr. Stuart Bate)


• A Priest Forever (St. Josemaria Escriva)


• No Eucharist Without the Priesthood
  (Fr. Hardon)


• The Necessity of the Catholic Priesthood
  (Fr. Hardon)


• Orthodox Priests in a Divided Church
  (Fr. JohnTrigilio)


• Priests Must Live a Martyr's Life
  (Fr. Hardon)


• The Value of Prayer and Sacrifice for Priests
  (Fr. Hardon)


• Come and See (Fr. Hardon)


• The Priest: Icon of Christ, Enabler of Sanctity
  (George Weigel)


• The Priestly Life (Ronald Knox)


• Why a Priest Should Wear His Roman Collar
  (Charles M. Mangan and Gerald E. Murray)


• Praying for our Priests (Fr. Hardon)


• Caring for our Priests (Fr. Hardon)


• Apostolate for Priests (Fr. Hardon)


• Humility and Obedience in the Priest
  (Fr. Hardon)


• Treatise on the Priesthood
  (St. John Chrysostom)

• The Priest's Struggle For Sanctity
  (John A.O'Brien)


• Preparing for Your Mission as Priests with Mary's Help (Benedict XVI)


• Pope Benedict XVI on the Priesthood


• Pope calls on bishops to evangelize with their own testimony of life (CNA)


• Priests must live for Christ and for Others
  (Pope Benedict XVI)


• The Nature of the Priesthood
  (Cardinal Ratzinger)


• Renewing the Priesthood
  (Father Trigilio)


• The Deposit of Faith and the Priesthood
  (Eugene Kevane)


• The Ordained Priesthood
  (Eamonn Keane)


• Saint Teresa of the Child Jesus and the Priesthood (Fr. Antonio Maria Sicari, ocd)


• The Priest as Man, Husband, and Father
  ( Fr. John Cihak, S.T.D.)


• The Clergy and Politics
  (John Newman: Tracts for the Times)


• Women and the Priesthood
  (Catholic Answer)

Vocation to the Priesthood

• How Bishops Discourage Vocations and the Key to Attracting Them (John Mallon)
  
• Pray for Vocations
  (Pope Benedict XVI)
  
• Can Catholic Parents Thwart a Religious Vocation? (Rev. George A. Kelly)
  
• The Family: Seedbed of Vocations
  (Fr. John McCloskey)
  
• The New Vows: Chastity, Poverty, Disobedience
  (This Rock)
  
• Vocation is Renewal of Personal Frienship with Christ (Pope Benedict XVI)
  
• Confession and Vocations
  (Fr. Hardon)
  
• Celibacy and the Crisis of Faith
  (Book review of D. Von Hildebrand)
  

• The Collapse of Religious and Priestly Vocations (Fr. Paul Marx)
  
• Fostering Vocations
  (Greg Bettencourt)
  
• Vocation crisis: The self-inflicted wound
  (Dr. John P. Fraunces)
  
• Faithful Families Help Vocations, Pope Says (Zenit)


• Ordained to Sacrifice, Sacrifice and Vocations
  (Fr. John Hardon)


• Pray The Harvest Master to send chaste laborers (Fr. Zimmerman)


• Priests' continuing Formation
  (Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua)

Liturgy: Novus Ordo

Church Documents

• Norms and Guidelines during the Lent and Easter Season 2008 (Raleigh Diocese)
  
• General Diocesan Norms for the Celebration of the Sacred Liturgy of the Mass(Raleigh, August4, 2008)
  
• Sacramental Guidelines for the Raleigh Diocese
  
• Kneeling for Holy Communion
  
• Redemptionis Sacramentum
  
• Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy
  (Vatican II)
  
• On Preparing to Receive Christ Worthily in the Eucharist
  
• Where Should We Put the Tabernacle
  (Canon Law)
  

• Language In the Roman Rite Liturgy: Latin and Vernacular ( Cardinal Arinze)
  
• On Certain Questions Regarding the Collaboration of the Non-Ordained Faithful in the Sacred Ministry of Priest
  
• Ecclesia Eucharistia (Pope John Paul II)
  
• On the Sacred Liturgy (Pope Pius XII)
  
• Liturgical Roles In the Eucharistic Celebration
  
• On Preparing to Receive Christ Worthily in the Eucharist (usccb)
  
• On Removing Holy Water During Lent (Congregation for Divine Worship)
  
• Lay ministers may not cleanse Communion vessels (Pope Benedict XVI)
  
• Washing Feet On Holy Thursday
  

Articles

• Pope's Response to Priests on the Liturgy (Zenit)
  
• Q & A On Changes in the Mass (Adoremus)
  
• Cardinal Ratzinger Blames Church Crisis on Liturgical Collapse (Paul Likoutis)
  
• Loss of the Sacred
  (Bishop Arthur J. Serratelli)
  
• Horizontalism Does Damage to Catholic Faith and Worship (Cardinal Arinze)
  
• Is Your Mass Valid?(Bruce Sabalaskey)
  
• Liturgical Abuses (Catholic Answer)
  
• Why priests should stick to the Mass texts(Bishop T.J. Paprocki)
  
• Suitable attire for Mass: the moral dimension (Bishop John W. Yanta)
  
• The Seventeen Most Common Errors in the Liturgy (Fr. Thomas Morrow)
  
• Fourteen Easy Ways to Improve the Liturgy
  

• The Renewal of the Churchés Traditional Liturgy
  
• Cardinal Ratzinger on the Old and the New Mass
  
• The Spirit of the Liturgy by Cardinal Ratzinger (review)
  
• On The Celebration Of Mass (Father Fessio)
  
• The Ten Most Common Liturgical Abuses (Kevin Orlin Johnson)
  
• How to Cope with Abuses in the Eucharistic Liturgy (Father Hardon)
  
• The Tabernacle: "Out of Sight, Out of Mind" (Regis Scanlon, O.F.M. Cap)
  
• Rome affirms right of laity to complain about abuses (Alberto Carosa)
  
• The Jargon of Liturgists: Brain-Washing the Faithful (Calvert Shenk)
  

Of Special Concern

• What is Ad Orientem Worship? (Fr. Tighe)
  
• Should Holy Water be removed?
  
• About that Oran Posture
  
• Washing of feet on Holy Thursday
  (Fr. Jerry Pokorsky)
  
• Kneeling for Holy Communion
  
• What Color for Advent (Adoremus)
  

• Advent: Blue is not a liturgical Color
  
• Holding Hands During the Lord's Prayer
  (Fr. William Saunders)
  
• Applause during Mass
  (Fr. Vincent Serpa, O.P.)
  
• Clapping after singing at Mass
  (Fr. Robert Levis)
  
• The Danger of Centering Prayer
  (Fr. Roh Dreher)
  

• Liturgy of the Mass
  
• Summorum Pontificum (Pope Benedict XVI)
  

• Raleigh Diocese's Implementation of Summorum Pontificum
  

Articles

• Q&A On Summorum Pontificum(EWTN)
  
• On Saying the Tridentine Mass
  (Fr. James V. Schall, S.J.)
  
• Cardinal Castrillén Hoyos on Summorum Pontificum


• Reflections on the Traditional Latin Mass (Fr. Kenneth Baker S.J.)
  

• Traditional Liturgy as a Liberation from Egoism (Peter Kwasniewski, Homiletic and Pastoral Review)
  
• Sancta Missa (Tutorial)
  
• Mysterious Encounters (Michael Knox Beran)
  
• Collection of Catholic Hymns
  
• Plain Man's Guide to Latin
  

Liturgical Music

• Instruction on Sacred Music (Pope Pius X)
  
• The Origin of the Hymns of the Liturgy
  
• Encyclical On Sacred Music (Pope Pius XII)
  
• Cardinal Ratzinger on Liturgical Music(Michael J. Miller )
  
• Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
  
• Gregorian Chant, silence and the Altar Bell
  (Rev. Nicola Bux and Rev. Salvatore Vitiello)
  
• Heretical Hymns
  (George Weigel)
  
• The Pope Music
  (Inside the Vatican)
  

• Guidelines for Liturgical Services (1962 Missal)
  
• The Art of Gregorian Music (Dom Andre Mocquereau)
  
• Toward a Revision of Music in Catholic Worship(William Mahrt)
  
• When the Cantor Was Like a Priest
  (An interview with Domenico Bartolucci )
  
• The Hidden Hand Behind Bad Catholic Music
  (J.A. Tucker)