Sites of special interest:
Our former pastor, Blessed Father Francis X. Seelos, has a site dedicated to making him better known as his beatification nears!
St Alphonsus Parish was founded by the Redemptorist Congregation, of which our pastors, St John Neumann and Fr Seelos, were members. Much information on this Order can be found at The Redemptorist Heritage.
St Alphonsus Parish has been conducting, for many years, the Perpetual Novena in honor of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal; this is a wonderful site for this Novena and many beautiful prayers.
For Daily Prayer with the Church:
Fortunately we can access some of the riches of the Church's daily liturgical life--the daily Mass and daily prayers and readings from the Liturgy of the Hours on some internet sites.
For some of the prayers of the Liturgy of the Hours and some of the beautiful readings, visit and pray at Universalis.
For a lovely meditation on the daily Mass gospel reading of God's Word, visit and pray at Daily Gospel Reflections (and you can sign up to get these reflections sent to you in daily email!). The same daily reflection is on the CIN site.
Another site which follows the liturgical calendar with reflections on many of the feasts and saints remembered can be found at the rich and inspiring Catholic Information Network (CIN) which also offers many interesting and popular Mailing Lists for discussion and exchange.
General Catholic Links:
The Holy Bible--at the very sources of our faith!
The Catechism of Catholic Church--the faith of the ages for today and tomorrow!
Code of Canon Law, Latin Church--necessary regulations for a universal Church (the Code for the Eastern Catholic Churches is not yet available online).
How good to have the official site of our Catholic Church at The Holy See and the Vatican.
Mother Angelica's evangelization includes not only cable TV, radio, and books, but an exciting internet presence, too, at Eternal Word Television Network--resources a-plenty for faith and devotion and a huge library too!
Kevin Knight has put up a site with an incredible amount of pages, including a growing portion of the great work of Catholic scholarship, The Catholic Encyclopedia (1913) at New Advent Site.
A pioneering and immense site, with an abundance of great Catholic art, architecture, culture and innumerable links can be found at Christus Rex.
For a truly beautifully printed and delighted companion of prayer and reflections for the Mass of the day and Morning and Night Prayer, you may wish to subscribe to Magnificat (highly recommended!).
An amazing site for information on a huge numbers of the saints, put together by Kathy Rabenstein for her parish of St Patrick's in D.C.
A parishioner of St Alphonsus has a site dedicated to The Feast of All Saints--an oasis of prayer, poetry, and resources to grow in God's Love and Grace.
The Patron Saints Index--a tremendous amount on numerous saints, including biographies, prayers, images. A rich site!
Here's a site, put together by a Catholic Priest, with an incredible amount of materials for spiritual growth and our own Awakening To Prayer.
Here's a rather extensive and helpful collection of Catholic Prayers and links to a few other Prayer pages as well.
For an amazing assortment of links to Catholic doctrine and apologetics, and other areas of interest, Dave Armstrong maintains a growing site at Biblical Defense of Catholicism.
Jeff Mirus has a marvellous site with evaluations of Catholic websites and a terrific array of Catholic documents, some not easily found elsewhere and his site is fittingly called PetersNet.
William Klimon is putting together perhaps the most extensive website dedicated to "converts" to the Catholic Church, on his wonderful page At The Gates of Bliss.
A marvellous site dedicated to Catholic social teaching and "orthopraxis" (right living and righteousness) can be explored at Robert Waldrop's always updated JustPeace Frontpage.
A good site for resources--with links for daily updates for liturgy and news and more--is A Catholic Start Page.
Catholic News Links:
ZENIT: The World as Seen from Rome
Tridentine Mass Links:
(some of these links can also be found on Tridentine
Page of this site, which has other links as well)
The Gregorian Society of Baltimore--based here at St Alphonsus Church!
To see one reason why some cherish this rite and its beautiful prayers, read through The Tridentine Rite of Mass in Latin and English.
Sunday Propers in English, Missal of 1962.
For the Sunday readings of the Tridentine calendar and a weekly commentary (and on this site one can access the Sunday readings and a commentary for the Missal of Paul VI as well!): Meeting Christ in the Liturgy.
Bill Basile maintains a Tridentine site with many links at UNA VOCE.
While not exclusively dealing with the Tridentine Rite, this site has much helpful information on both the reformed liturgy and the classical Latin Liturgy--The Catholic Liturgical Library.
Some Online Journals
First Things--edited by priest-convert, Fr Richard John Neuhaus. His "Public Square" editorials are very popular!
Crisis--edited by Deal Hudson.
Inside the Vatican--edited by Robert Moynihan. But online edition lacks the magnificent photographs that make this interesting journal so stunningly beautiful.
New Oxford Review--edited by Dale Vree. A journal that began as Anglican and became Catholic.
Touchstone--a journal of "ecumenical orthodoxy."
Archdiocese of Baltimore Links:
A redesigned site that promises to be helpful and informative for The Archdiocese of Baltimore.
For a catch up on some local and universal Catholic news there's the Archdiocesan newspaper The Catholic Review.
The Basilica of the Assumption promises a website soon; already in place is a website for The Cathedral of Mary Our Queen.
For another beautiful church in the Baltimore Archdiocese, visit the Redemptorist staffed St Mary's Parish, Annapolis (and Fr Seelos, our pastor, served at this parish too).
Other Archdiocesan Parish websites:
St Benedict Parish--Wilkens Ave (I design/maintain this site--Gerard Serafin)
Our Lady Of Victory --with good materials!
St. Louis, Clarksville--excellent materials here too!
St John the Evangelist Parish, Westminster.
Holy Face Catholic Church--just a picture of church as far as I can determine!
Prince of Peace Parish in Edgewood
Our Lady of Grace in Parkton, MD
St. Jude Shrine, Baltimore
The Shrine of the Sacred Heart, Baltimore
St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, CroftoSaint John the Evangelist, Severna Park
Our Lady Of Sorrows, Owensville
St. Jane Frances Church--Riviera Beach/Pasadena
St. Mary and St. Francis of Assissi--Petersville, and Brunswick
Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Edgewater