Music Links
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The Church on the Internet
The Official Vatican Website in a variety of languages.
Site of the American Catholic Bishops' Conference.
The Catholic Conference of Bishops in Massachusetts
See what's happening in the Diocese.
The Open Directory Project listing of all Massachusetts Catholic Church websites
Links to Parishes from the Diocesan website
Links to local Catholic schools from the Diocesan website
Find out about The Worcester Cursillo.
Hierarchy even traces the Apostolic Succession of Bishops
History and Research of local parishes
Trinity Communications site offers ratings of other sites by topic.
On-line Bible Resources
This is the Catholic translation used in the Lectionary of the Mass.
The US Conference of Catholic Bishops provides these readings.
Comprehensive perpetual calendar of lectionary readings for all cycles at easterbrooks.com
This is the Best Free downloadable Bible tool! Unfortunately, the author is having trouble getting permission to provide the Catholic NAB version.
Commentaries, concordances, lexicons, parallel Bibles, dictionaries, histories, etc.
Other English translations and commentaries
More than just the NLT: devotionals, meditations, commentaries and search
Catholic News Resources
" The Voice of Rome."
view current and past headlines of Worcester Diocesan newspaper [.pdf]
Affliated with The US Conference of Catholic Bishops.
Current International headlines
Eternal Word Television Network - Mother Angelica's website
Subscription required for this service.
Church Documents
At the U.S. Bishop's Conference site
The Ecole initiative:creating an Encyclopedia of the Early Church
St. Charles Borromeo site, containing indexed links
Comprehensive collection of Papal documents going back to the 1200's
Featuring probably the most extensive On-line Catholic Encyclopedia
Includes encyclicals, the Roman Curia, Synod of Bishops, Offices
ChristusRex.com provides a search engine for the Catechism of the Catholic Church
Theological Research
Comprehensive Resources: On-line Comprehensive Catholic Encyclopedia
The Writings of the Fathers Down to A.D. 325
Spring Hill College site provides a substantial directory to documents on other sites.
The Vatican Online
Virtual library of College of St Benedict and St John's University in Minnesota
A compendium of resources by topic with links to other sites.
Commentaries that challenge
Other Catholic Sites of Interest
This website is a great network to other Catholic websites
PBS intellectual and visual guide to new historical evidence about the life of Jesus and the epic rise of Christianity.
provide some answers when you cannot find them elsewere.
"Classic Christian books in electronic format, selected for your edification."
This site offers some Traditional Catholic views as well as daily meditations and links.
Links to over 2,000 webpages
(links to other sites)
Jewish Origins of the Catholic Church
(Liturgy times and addresses for anywhere in US.)
an artistically pleasing page on the Jewish Passover prayers
original pages plus many links to other sites.
This is the Old Baltimore Catechism in question and answer form.
"This site is dedicated to providing accurate historical and current information about the liturgies of the Latin (Roman) rite of the Catholic Church."
A Catholic apostolate of renewal and evangelization by Dr. Marcellino, author for the weekly Our Sunday Visitorcolumn "This Liturgy of Ours"
Link list to the Catholic web.
This site rates other Catholic sites for content,fidelity and presentation.
Defending The Faith
A faithful and entertaining Apologetics site which addresses many levels of faith.
A directory of Catholic Sites including apologetics.
good doctrinal site
"Catholic Answers is one of the nation’s largest lay-run apostolates of Catholic apologetics and evangelization."
"What does the Roman Catholic Church teach about ...? ... and why?"
Apologetics from and for converts
coming to the Truth through the Bible
A must visit to audio and transcriptions from one of the leading Catholic apologists
Articles written with simplicity and clarity to better explain the theology of the Catholic Church in laymen's language.
General arguments for defending the Catholic faith
James Akin is a well-known apologist who addresses questions in a thorough but understandable style.
Evidence of God for Agnostics
Formation
Catholic faith formation for a global community
Resources for Faith and Life
Featuring the American Catholic Scripture study series on-line videos.
Free On-line Scripture study prepared by Scott Hahn, Jeff Cavins, et al.
A Catechetical activity page recommended by the Diocese of Worcester
Patrick Madrid's online magazine offers orthodox Catholic theology with helpful historical perspective in an easy to read format.
Catholic Frequently Asked Questions, answers provided by James Akins at CIN.org
Catholic teaching provided by James Akins at CIN.org
A family oriented page containing articles. Recommended by the Diocese of Worcester
"WARNING: The study, practice, and spirituality of Catholic social justice teachings may be hazardous to your hard-heartedness, complacency, skepticism, indifference, and hubris. "
serving the poor in 98 countries overseas through programs in emergency relief, HIV/AIDS, health, agriculture, education, microfinance, and peacebuilding.
Questions and Answers by Pope John Paul II
Good News Ministries' rich online resource of articles to do spiritual building workouts.
Youth Ministry Resources
This site contains a lot of help for teacher formation; some resources
The National Federation for Catholic Youth Ministry
Forum, Reading room, music, games, and wallpaper for phat teens and young adults.
This site contains pages for prayer and children's activities
Looking for games or lesson plans for teens?
Free skits here.
Retreat, prayer, activity and skit resources for teens
A large number of skits indexed by topic
Offers skits and plays for Teens, as well as a page on drama how-to's
Scripture based. If you don't use them as is, try borrowing ideas.
Online activities, coloring books, etc. geared to grade school age
Information about the Franciscan University of Steubenville Summer Youth Conferences
Resources for Youth Camps, games, Bible study, training etc.(Protestant, but fairly ecumenical.)
This site provides activities as well as links to other sites.
contains materials, links, etc for working with youth.
- Local Youth Group Websites from around the world
"The place for youth to talk about Catholicism."
Award winning Youth 2000 New York Regional website for teens
LIFE TEEN has much for teenagers.
This site contains some good activities for teens.
Links to resources on the web.
Links to some other good sites
Prayers and Meditations
click on the ticker below to view a meditation.
Prayers and Litanies provided by the Altar Servers of the parish of Our Lady of Perpetual Succour in Singapore.
This site contains many good links to other Prayer sites
Prayers for all occasions
Not just during Lent and Holy week it's good to visit this site.
This site requires registration.
A good meditation site - visit the home page while you are there.
a few prayers, some well-known
A somewhat confusing site nevertheless posts some Catholic prayers, pictures, etc.
Saints
Part of a network of Catholic sites with information about saints
large index of saints on the web
3,522 topics -==- 7,115 saints, beati and venerables
Lists and articles pertaining to Catholic saints as posted by various authors/sources
Large index by name,date, etc.
This site is devoted to Our Lady
Quotes and Inspirations
*Nice Stories*
On-line free stories from the series.
The index to the inspirational site.
Christian Stories, Poems and Thoughts indexed by topic
Cyber Quotations:Inspirational Quotations and Motivational Stories
"..it will help you develop positive thinking"
Stories indexed by topic.
This page has a meta-search engine to other on-line quote sites.
Good site to come up with an appropriate quote.
More than 13,000 quotes that inspire.
Paxton Related Sites
Town of Paxton departments, schedules, events.
Contains articles about the town and its past.
Paxton's Library maintains a well-done website with pages for the whole family.
features the Moll Art Center on campus.
Historical Sketch of the First Congregational Church Paxton MA
Compiled and printed September 1935 Transcribed by"Arline Larson"
Paxton Center School Department of Education Profile
EPodunk.com
Part of the Lost MA Areas site
A Directory Listing of all sorts of services, organizations
an article by Lois Breault and Denis Melican Paxton, MA
provided by AreaGuides.net
UNH DIMOND LIBRARY Documents Department & Data Center
Contains some neat historical advertisements online
Massachusetts' webpage on Paxton
Paxton sits in the middle of a watershed.
An interesting website about what to do in New England
This site was designed specifically for area residents, with all of your needs and interests in mind.
School calendar, contacts, budget, etc.
Art
All about the symbolism and history of Icons
Over 10,100 digital reproductions of European paintings and sculptures created between the years 1150 and 1800, many commented and biographies of the significant artists are given.
Part of the Christus Rex Project
Online tour of The National Gallery of Art and its Sculpture Garden, located on the National Mall.
Comprehensive site features 185 great artists through time.
Australian site features a growing online collection by artist, category, region.
AcademicInfo is an online education resource center containing online arts degree information and subject resources such as books, articles, and links.
Some of the most artistic free Christian web art on the internet..
Music
Online service of NPM for Musicians and Clergy.
The origins and development of liturgical worship and the music used in these worship forms over the past millennia.
Where you can hear, discuss, find Catholic music
Susan Bailey - Local musician performing familiar and original Christian music
Worship and Liturgical music
presenting the Good News of Jesus Christ and his Church, using the best in contemporary Catholic music, on the radio and online.
Dedicated to Liturgical renewal."
Christian Copyright Licensing International: independent composer's copyright licensing.
Resource of worship music, Christian guitar tabs, links to record label and band websites."
Contemporary Christian music guitar tabs
Contemporary Christian music mp3 files for listening
Where to buy CDs and tapes from up-and-coming Catholic musicians.
The webmaster belongs to this ministry, whose home is in the Diocese of Worcester MA
A recording artist shares some good advise to those involved in music ministry
Liturgical resources for planning from the University of St. Louis
Traditional Music for the Contemporary Church
General
Internet Portal to the Executive and other branches of Federal, State, and local government.
Visit the home of the Executive Branch
Congressional schedules, committees, contacts, etc.
Congressional schedules, committees, contacts, etc.
The three branches: Executive, Legislature, Judiciary, and other government sites
Find out how your elected officials vote and where they stand.
Home to the largest library in America.
Open Content public authored Encyclopedia
Free Online Literature with more than 2000 Classic Texts.
A window to some of the best sites on the Internet for general research.
Learn how everything works.
Links to population reference databases support a childrens book about if the world were made up of one hundred people.
One possible weather forecasting site.
simply visiting this site will help the poor
Lycos sponsored site offers rhymes, homonyms, synonyms, definition and antonyms to words you enter - good for prose and poetry!
U Fisher VA Electronic Library sponsors this research site.
Great Books Online
Working to protect human rights throughout the world.
Just For Fun
You know, Veggie Tales?
"the mother lode of unique outdoor games, toys for active play and innovative sporting goods."
Cookbooks Online boasts a 1M+ recipe database
fun and games and education
Enjoyment for everyone young at heart.
A pretty good site for recipes of all sorts.
download whole cookbooks, including my mother's Fanny Farmer cookbook - at a cost.
Science Museum on the web.
The Public Broadcasting System gives us Sesame Street, Julia Child and This Old House
The best of the web for kids.
Activities, crafts, home, garden, ecards, parenting, etc.
From Arthur to Zoom
Search Engines
"What you need to know" points to many helpful indices
- Art, Design, Architecture, Media Information Gateway
Developed by Hans Zell Publishing, Oxford for use by the book professions in Africa, and by African writers and scholars.
URL, picture, audio, video file search capabilities
One of the first, best search engines
- find photos and art on the www
- fine arts search engine
Originally from Digital-altavista: ask your question.
- Database of website resources for K-12 education.
- Directory of academic subject links
All things Canada
- Directory of databases and specialty engines
goes where search engines cannot - into specific databases.
Picks the top ten from several other search engines
The web as indexed by volunteer human beings.
- search directory of economics information
- search European websites
- Official website for searching for U.S. government documents
The Websearch Alliance Directory - is for sale!
- genealogy search engine
very good all round search engine uses DMOZ and other metasearches for information
- searches for governments sites and documents
- good engine
- meta engine for searching multiple human rights sites
This search engine has automated windowing tools for multi-tasking work.
- an economics gateway and search engine
- links from the WWW Virtual Library
public service organization at University of Michigan School of Information.
- select search type for your query
- The How-to Hunter
- a search engine/directory online legal information
- a subject directory
well-known search engine
- an image search engine
Good results from this "Meta-search" engine.
This site sets you up to choose from the best engines.
Microsoft Network Search
- searches medical databases - good for nursing and consumer information.
- a search engine for politics and polity
- a meta-search tool
- Searchable database of academic resource websites. Also browsable by Library of Congress Subject Classification.
- International Directory of Search Engines
- index to over 2000 subject specific engines and directories
- index of college, university and other educational sites
- Search engine/directory for computer science & mathematics
Delivers results from a broad range of sources: the visible and invisible Web, newsfeeds, and intranets.
- indexes on content authority
- a "find engine"