The Curé d'Ars Prayer Group

Documents and Articles

Curé D'Ars

  ●   Catechism on the Priesthood (St. John Vianney)
  ●   Saint John Mary Vianney (Catholic Encyclopedia)
  ●   Sanctuary of Ars
  ●   Sermons of the Cure of Ars (exerpts)
  ●   St. John Vianney's blueprint for the priesthood back in favour (Fr. John Cihak)
  ●   The Life of Saint John Vianney (Paolo Risso)
  ●   The Religious State : Together With A Short Treatise On The Vocation To The Priesthood By St. Alphonsus De Liguori

Priesthood - Church Documents

  ●   Adoration, reparation, spiritual motherhood for Priests (Congregation for the Clergy)
  ●   Cardinal Hummes on Priesthood
  ●   Catechism on Modernism according to the encyclical 'Pascendi dominici gregis' of his Holiness Pius X
  ●   Holy Hour for Priests (Pope Pius XII)
  ●   Letter for the sanctification of the Clergy (Congregation for the Clergy)
  ●   On the Catholic Priesthood (Pope Pius XI)
  ●   On the Celibacy of the Priest (Pope Paul VI)
  ●   Ordinatio Sacerdotalis (Pope John Paul II)
  ●   Pastores Gregis: On the Bishop (Pope John Paul II)
  ●   Sacerdotii Nostri Primordia (Pope John XXIII)
  ●   The Eucharist and the Priest (Congregation for the Clergy)
  ●   The Priest, Pastor and Leader of the Parish Community (Pope John Paul II)
  ●   Thoughts for the Clergy of the World (Pius XII)

Priesthood - Articles

  ●   A Priest Forever (St. Josemaria Escriva)
  ●   Caring for our Priests (Fr. Hardon)
  ●   Children of God; a summary of Catholic doctrine for busy people (Fr. Mark Moeslein)
  ●   Come and See (Fr. Hardon)
  ●   Humility and Obedience in the Priest (Fr. Hardon)
  ●   No Eucharist Without the Priesthood (Fr. Hardon)
  ●   One Priest’s View on the Vocations Crisis (Liturgy Guy)
  ●   Orthodox Priests in a Divided Church (Rev. Fr. John Trigilio)
  ●   Pope Benedict XVI on the Priesthood
  ●   Pope calls on bishops to evangelize with their own testimony of life (CNA)
  ●   Praying for our Priests (Fr. Hardon)
  ●   Preparing for Your Mission as Priests with Mary's Help (Benedict XVI)
  ●   Priestly Ordination (Fr. William Most)
  ●   Priests Must Live a Martyr's Life (Fr. Hardon)
  ●   Priests Must Live in Christ through Prayer (Pope Benedict XVI)
  ●   Renewing the Priesthood (Father John Trigilio)
  ●   Saint Teresa of the Child Jesus and the Priesthood (Fr. Antonio Maria Sicari, ocd)
  ●   Send out laborers to the Harvest. (Crusade Meditations: Summer 2002)
  ●   The Bipolar Priesthood (Father Jerry J. Pokorsky)
  ●   The Clergy and Politics (John Newman: Tracts for the Times)
  ●   The Deposit of Faith and the Priesthood (Msgr.Eugene Kevane)
  ●   The Nature of the Priesthood (Cardinal Ratzinger)
  ●   The Necessity of the Catholic Priesthood (Rev. Fr. John Hardon,S.J.)
  ●   The Ordained Priesthood (Eamonn Keane)
  ●   The Personal Example of the Parish Priest Is What Attracts Vocations (Fr. Stuart Bate)
  ●   The Priest as Man, Husband, and Father (Fr. John Cihak, S.T.D.)
  ●   The Priest's Struggle For Sanctity (John A.O'Brien)
  ●   The Priest: Icon of Christ, Enabler of Sanctity (George Weigel)
  ●   The Priestly Life (Rev. Msgr. Ronald Knox)
  ●   The Value of Prayer and Sacrifice for Priests (Rev. Fr. John Hardon,S.J.)
  ●   Treatise on the Priesthood (St. John Chrysostom)
  ●   Vain Repetitions
  ●   Why a Priest Should Wear His Roman Collar (Charles M. Mangan and Gerald E. Murray)
  ●   Women and the Priesthood (Catholic Answer)

Vocation to the Priesthood

  ●   A Modest Proposal to End the Vocations Crisis (Fr. Perricone)
  ●   Bishops cannot require priests to use female altar servers. (Congregation of the Divine Worhip, 2001)
  ●   Can Catholic Parents Thwart a Religious Vocation? (Rev. George A. Kelly)
  ●   Catholic Men Need Priests Who Will Lead (Matthew James Christoff)
  ●   Celibacy and the Crisis of Faith (Book review of D. Von Hildebrand)
  ●   Confession and Vocations (Rev. Fr. John Hardon,S.J.)
  ●   Decree On Priestly Training (Pope Paul VI)
  ●   How Bishops Discourage Vocations (and the Key to Attracting Them) (John Mallon)
  ●   On the Question of Admission of Women to the Ministerial Priesthood (Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, 1976)
  ●   Pray for Vocations (Pope Benedict XVI)
  ●   Pray The Harvest Master to send chaste laborers (Fr. Zimmerman)
  ●   Priests' continuing Formation(Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua)
  ●   Sacrifice and Vocations (Rev. Fr. John Hardon,S.J.)
  ●   The Family: Seedbed of Vocations (Fr. John McCloskey)
  ●   The New Vows: Chastity, Poverty, Disobedience (Julie A. Ferraro)
  ●   To End the Vocations Crisis (Fr. Perricone)
  ●   Vocation is Renewal of Personal Frienship with Christ (Pope Benedict XVI)
  ●   When a Diocese Undermines Its Own Vocations (Sarah Cain)

Liturgy: Novus Ordo - Church Documents

  ●   Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy(Vatican II)
  ●   Ecclesia Eucharistia (Pope John Paul II)
  ●   General Diocesan Norms for the Celebration of the Sacred Liturgy of the Mass (Raleigh, August4, 2008)
  ●   Language In the Roman Rite Liturgy: Latin and Vernacular (Cardinal Arinze)
  ●   Lay ministers may not cleanse Communion vessels (Pope Benedict XVI)
  ●   Liturgical Roles In the Eucharistic Celebration (Cardinal Arinze)
  ●   On Certain Questions Regarding the Collaboration of the Non-Ordained Faithful in the Sacred Ministry of Priest
  ●   On Preparing to Receive Christ Worthily in the Eucharist (USCCB)
  ●   On Removing Holy Water During Lent (Congregation for Divine Worship)
  ●   On the Sacred Liturgy (Pope Pius XII)
  ●   Raleigh Diocese Pastoral and Administrative Parish Handbook: From Altar to Office. (01/27/2026)
  ●   Redemptionis Sacramentum On certain matters to be observed or to be avoided regarding the Most Holy Eucharist.
  ●   Where Should We Put the Tabernacle (Canon Law)

Liturgy: Novus Ordo - Articles

  ●   Altar Rails and Reverence (Liturgy Guy)
  ●   Cardinal Ratzinger Blames Church Crisis on Liturgical Collapse (Paul Likoutis)
  ●   Cardinal Ratzinger on the Old and the New Mass
  ●   Fourteen Easy Ways to Improve the Liturgy
  ●   Holy See Affirms Customary Kneeling During Communion Rite (Adoremus)
  ●   Holy See: People May Kneel After They receive Communion (Adoremus)
  ●   Horizontalism... Does Damage to Catholic Faith and Worship (Cardinal Arinze)
  ●   How to Cope with Abuses in the Eucharistic Liturgy (Father Hardon)
  ●   Loss of the Sacred (Bishop Arthur J. Serratelli)
  ●   Modesty Starts with Purifcation of the Heart (Bishop John W. Yanta)
  ●   On The Celebration Of Mass (Father Fessio)
  ●   Posture of the Faithful following Communion (CDW via EWTN)
  ●   Q & A On Changes in the Mass (Adoremus)
  ●   Standing after Receiving Holy Communion (Colin B. Donovan, STL)
  ●   The Jargon of Liturgists: Brain-Washing the Faithful (Calvert Shenk)
  ●   The Renewal of the Church's Traditional Liturgy (Alberto Carosa)
  ●   The Seventeen Most Common Errors in the Liturgy (Fr. Thomas Morrow)
  ●   The Tabernacle: "Out of Sight, Out of Mind" (Regis Scanlon, O.F.M. Cap)
  ●   The Ten Most Common Liturgical Abuses (Kevin Orlin Johnson Ph.D. Catholic Answer)
  ●   Why priests should stick to the Mass texts (Bishop T.J. Paprocki)

Liturgy: Novus Ordo - Of Special Concern

  ●   About that Oran Posture (Adoremus)
  ●   Are Women at the Altar Helping or Hurting the Church? (By Fr. Kevin Drew, Catholic Exchange)
  ●   Bishop Schneider's WARNING: 'Novus Ordo CANNOT Continue As Is' (Sign of the Cross J.H Western)
  ●   Blue for Advent? (Adoremus)
  ●   Clericalism and the Pandemic ( Fr. James Sabak)
  ●   Conservationism and Conservatives (Ben Harnwell)
  ●   Eucharist in a time of Coronavirus (Fr. James Sabak)
  ●   Holding Hands During the Lord's Prayer (Fr. William Saunders)
  ●   Pastoral letter on Implementation on The Novus Ordo Liturgy by the Bishop of Charlotte, North Carolina, Michael Martin OFM Conv,
  ●   Sacraments After the Pandemic…Business as Usual? ( Fr. James Sabak)
  ●   Should Holy Water be removed?
  ●   The Danger of Centering Prayer (Fr. John D. Dreher)
  ●   Washing of feet on Holy Thursday (Fr. Jerry Pokorsky)
  ●   Why a bishop’s preferences can never become law (Fr. Peter Stravinskas, Catholic World Report)
  ●   ‘Stand Up Like Free Men’: The modern history of standing for Communion (The Pillar: Nico Fassino)

Liturgy: Tridentine Rite - Church Documents

  ●   Liturgy of the Mass (New Advent)
  ●   Quo Primum Promulgating the Tridentine Liturgy Pope Pius V - 1570
  ●   Summorum Pontificum (Pope Benedict XVI)
  ●   Traditiones Custodes ( Pope Francis)

Liturgy: Tridentine Rite - Articles

  ●   Analyst: Latin Mass restrictions have widened Church divisions (Rachel Quackenbush)
  ●   Bishop Zarama responds to Pope Francis' apostolic letter (Oct. 21, 2023)
  ●   Cardinal Castrillén Hoyos on Summorum Pontificum
  ●   Cardinal Roche’s consistory document on the Traditional Latin Mass revealed (The Catholic Herald: Niwa Limbu)
  ●   Does a Priest Need Permission to Offer the Traditional Latin Mass? (April 03, 2025. Peter Kwasniewski)
  ●   North Carolina bishop restricts celebration of Latin Mass every Sunday to one diocesan parish
  ●   Not Authorized: The Untold Story of the Death of the Old Mass (Sharon Kabel)
  ●   On Saying the Tridentine Mass (Fr. James V. Schall, S.J.)
  ●   On the Impressive Ceremonies of the Latin Mass (John Paul Sonnen)
  ●   On the Restoration and Promotion of the Traditional Mass (Christian Browne)
  ●   Open Letter of Traditional Lay Faithful to the Catholic Faithful of the Whole World (Rorate Caeli)
  ●   Pope Pius V and the Mass (Voice of the Family Digest via Rorate Caeli)
  ●   Sancta Missa (Tutorial)
  ●   Solemn High Mass at Sacred Heart Cathedral in Raleigh, January 6 2008 (Roman Catholic Vocations)
  ●   The Scapegoat in the Pit: A Girardian Reflection on the Suppression of the Latin Mass (Vincenzo Randazzo April 11, 2025)
  ●   Traditional Liturgy as a Liberation from Egoism (Peter Kwasniewski, Homiletic and Pastoral Review)
  ●   Why Are Some Churchmen So Opposed to the Return of the Latin Mass? (Peter Kwasniewski)

Liturgical Music

  ●   Cardinal Ratzinger on Liturgical Music (Michael J. Miller)
  ●   Encyclical On Sacred Music (Pope Pius XII)
  ●   Guidelines for Liturgical Services (Rev. Scott A. Haynes, S.J.C.)
  ●   Heretical Hymns (George Weigel)
  ●   Instruction on Sacred Music (Pope Pius X)
  ●   The Art of Gregorian Music (Dom Andre Mocquereau)
  ●   The Hidden Hand Behind Bad Catholic Music (J.A. Tucker)
  ●   The Origin of the Hymns of the Liturgy (by Grace Hausmann Sherwood)
  ●   Toward a Revision of Music in Catholic Worship (William Mahrt)
  ●   When the Cantor Was Like a Priest (An interview with Domenico Bartolucci)
  ●   Why Praise and Worship Music is Praise, But Not Worship (Christopher Smith)

Church Architecture

  ●   Charles Borromeo and Catholic Tradition
  ●   Communion Rails Return as Churches Embrace Beauty and Reverence (Joseph Pronechen)
  ●   Ten Myths of Catholic Architecture (Duncan Stroik, A.I.A)
  ●   What in the World Is a “Worship Space”? (Fr. John A. Perricone)

Resources - Books

  ●   A Shepherd and a King, by Anne Coyne (The Bruce Pub. Co, 1939)
  ●   Blessed and poor; the spiritual odyssey of the Curé of Ars by Daniel Pezeril (Pantheon Books,1961)
  ●   Catholic Principles on Voting (Rev. Titus Cranny S.A., M.A., S.T.L. 1952)
  ●   Encyclical of Pope Pius XI on the Catholic Priesthood
  ●   Father Price of Maryknoll (Compiled Letters, 1923)
  ●   Jesus Living in the Priest: Considerations on the greatness and Holiness of the Priesthood (Rev. Jacques Nicolas and P. Millet, S.J; 1901)
  ●   Man of God: The Catholic Priest and the Cornerstones of His Life (Bishop Athanasius Schneider; 2024)
  ●   Portrait of a parish priest : St. John Vianney, the curé d'Ars by Sheppard, Lancelot C. (Newman Press, 1958)
  ●   Priestly Virtue and Zeal: A Study of the Life of St. John Baptist Vianneay, The Cure d'Ars and Patron of Priests, Applied to the sacerdotal Life of Today By Rev. Msgr. J.L.J. Kirlin (1928)
  ●   Saint Jean-Marie Vianney, curé of Ars (Margaret Trouncer; Sheed & Ward, 1959)
  ●   Saint John Vianney: The Curé D'Ars Today by Father Rutler (Ignatius, 1988)
  ●   Sermons of the Cure d'Ars: For the Sundays and Feasts of the Year (Mediatrix Press )
  ●   Tar Heel Apostle: Thomas Frederick Price, Cofounder of Maryknoll (Rev. Fr. John C. Murrett; 1944)
  ●   The Cure of Ars: Patron Saint of Parish Priests by Fr. Bartholomew J. O’Brien (Tan Books)
  ●   The Curé of Ars by Kathleen O'Meara (1894)
  ●   The Dignities and Duties of the Priest, Saint Alphonsus Liguori (PDF)
  ●   The Dignity and Qualities of a Holy Priest by St. John Eudes (PDF)
  ●   The Little Catechism of The Cure of Ars (Tan Books)
  ●   The man who fought the Devil : the Curé of Ars by Eva K. Betz (Audiobook)
  ●   The Priest In Union With Christ by Fr. Garrigou-Lagrange, O.P.
  ●   The Priest Is Not His Own by Bishop Fulton Sheen (Ignatius Press)
  ●   The Priest of To- Day; His Ideals And Duties, by Rev. Thomas O’Donnell CM (1910, PDF)
  ●   The Remarkable Cure of Ars; the life and achievements of St. John Mary Vianney by Michel de Saint Pierre (Doubleday, 1963)
  ●   The Sacred Heart and the Priesthood by Mother Louise Margaret Claret de la Touche (Tan Books)
  ●   The Spirit of the Curé of Ars by Rev. Alfred Monnin (PDF, 1865 )
  ●   Those Mysterious Priests by Bishop Fulton Sheen (1974)
  ●   Thoughts of the Cure d’Ars (Tan Books)