The Curé d'Ars Prayer Group

Documents and Articles

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

  ●   Catechism on Modernism according to the encyclical 'Pascendi dominici gregis' of his Holiness Pius X
  ●   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)
  ●   Adoration, reparation, spiritual motherhood for Priests (Congregation for the Clergy)
  ●   Letter for the sanctification of the Clergy (Congregation for the Clergy)

Priesthood - Articles

  ●   One Priest’s View on the Vocations Crisis
  ●   Why Priests Do Not Marry (Fr. Bertrand Conway, C.S.P.)
  ●   Vain Repetitions
  ●   "Send out laborers to the Harvest..."
  ●   Children of God; a summary of Catholic doctrine for busy people ( Fr. Mark Moeslein)
  ●   The Bipolar Priesthood (Father Jerry J. Pokorsky)
  ●   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. John Trigilio)
  ●   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)
  ●   Reapers of the Harvest (Rev. T.E. Bridgett, C.Ss.R.)
  ●   Cross Priests (Albert Doyle)

Vocation to the Priesthood

  ●   Decree On Priestly Training (Pope Paul VI)
  ●   To End the Vocations Crisis (Fr. Perricone)
  ●   A Modest Proposal to End the Vocations Crisis (Fr. Perricone)
  ●   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)
  ●   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)
  ●   Catholic Men Need Priests Who Will Lead(Matthew James Christoff)

Liturgy: Novus Ordo - Church Documents

  ●   General Diocesan Norms for the Celebration of the Sacred Liturgy of the Mass (Raleigh, August4, 2008)
  ●   Sacramental Guidelines for the Raleigh Diocese
  ●   Redemptionis Sacramentum
  ●   Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy(Vatican II)
  ●   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

Liturgy: Novus Ordo - Articles

  ●   Holy See: People May Kneel After They receive Communion
  ●   Holy See Affirms Customary Kneeling During Communion Rite
  ●   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 Church's Traditional Liturgy
  ●   Cardinal Ratzinger on the Old and the New Mass
  ●   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)
  ●   New liturgy document: Rome affirms right of laity to complain about abuses
  ●   The Jargon of Liturgists: Brain-Washing the Faithful (Calvert Shenk)
  ●   Altar Rails and Reverence

Liturgy: Novus Ordo - Of Special Concern

  ●   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)
  ●   Conservationism and Conservatives (Ben Harnwell)

Liturgy: Tridentine Rite - Church Documents

  ●   Traditiones Custodes ( Pope Francis)
  ●   Liturgy of the Mass
  ●   Summorum Pontificum (Pope Benedict XVI)

Liturgy: Tridentine Rite - Articles

  ●   On the Restoration and Promotion of the Traditional Mass (Christian Browne)
  ●   The Kids are Old Rite (Matthew Schmitz)
  ●   Not Authorized: The Untold Story of the Death of the Old Mass
  ●   Open Letter of Traditional Lay Faithful to the Catholic Faithful of the Whole World
  ●   On the Impressive Ceremonies of the Latin Mass (John Paul Sonnen)
  ●   Pope Pius V and the Mass (Voice of the Family Digest via Rorate Caeli)
  ●   North Carolina bishop restricts celebration of Latin Mass every Sunday to one diocesan parish
  ●   Bishop Zarama responds to Pope Francis' apostolic letter (Oct. 21, 2023)
  ●   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

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)
  ●   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)
  ●   Why Praise and Worship Music is Praise, But Not Worship ( Christopher Smith)

Church Architecture

  ●   What in the World Is a “Worship Space”? (Fr. John A. Perricone)
  ●   Charles Borromeo and Catholic Tradition
  ●   Ten Myths of Catholic Architecture

Resources - Books

  ●   Saint John Vianney: The Curé D'Ars Today by Father Rutler (Ignatius, 1988)
  ●   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 Priest of To- Day; His Ideals And Duties, by Rev. Thomas O’Donnell CM (1910, PDF)
  ●   Thoughts of the Cure d’Ars (Tan Books)
  ●   The Cure of Ars: Patron Saint of Parish Priests by Fr. Bartholomew J. O’Brien (Tan Books)
  ●   The Remarkable Cure of Ars; the life and achievements of St. John Mary Vianney by Michel de Saint Pierre (Doubleday, 1963)
  ●   Sermons of the Cure d'Ars: For the Sundays and Feasts of the Year (Mediatrix Press )
  ●   The Little Catechism of The Cure of Ars (Tan Books)
  ●   Blessed and poor; the spiritual odyssey of the Curé of Ars by Daniel Pezeril (Pantheon Books,1961)
  ●   A Shepherd and a King, by Anne Coyne (The Bruce Pub. Co, 1939)
  ●   Portrait of a parish priest : St. John Vianney, the curé d'Ars by Sheppard, Lancelot C. (Newman Press, 1958)
  ●   Saint Jean-Marie Vianney, curé of Ars by Margaret Trouncer, (Sheed & Ward, 1959)
  ●   The Curé of Ars by Kathleen O'Meara (1894)
  ●   The man who fought the Devil : the Curé of Ars by Eva K. Betz (Audiobook)
  ●   The Spirit of the Curé of Ars by Rev. Alfred Monnin (PDF, 1865 )