Evangelization and Catechesis Conference 2012Workshop CL2012001

Cindee Case Diocese of Youngstown, Director,Office of Youth & Young Adult Ministry

•Workshop Description:

• Are you aware of the numerous websites, applications and resources available to deepen YOUR spirituality with technology? Share some of your favorites as we explore new options. Discover how the web can help become a spiritual companion. Find resources to use in your classroom, youth ministry sessions, retreats and non-gathered ministries. Catholic Social Networking? There’s an App for that! (Sound good?)

SUGGESTED AGENDA

• Starting points• Opening Prayer• Ways to pray• Sharing apps/websites that help with

prayer• Share online-retreat sites• Share websites that help with daily

reminders, guiding thoughts (Prayer Prompts)

• Share smart phone apps• Other ideas• Closing Prayer

WHY use online prayer tools?(i.e. why this workshop?)

• Morning Prayer/ Night Prayer• Lunchtime mini-retreats• Daily Scripture• Utilize time for prayer while waiting for the

cashier, DMV staff, waiting for a plane/bus, etc.

• Use to start a class, YM gathering, meeting• Post on website, FB, Tweet• (Share other ideas…)

OPENING PRAYER – YOUTUBE VIDEO

• Open “Be Still” -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C01lLxEo3xM&feature=related

•What are we working with here?

How do YOU like to pray?

• Music• Meditation• Traditional Forms• Spiritual Reading

• We can find an app/site/resource for that.

Daily Readings for Mass – www.usccb.org

Responsorial Psalm Ps 8:2-3ab, 4-5, 6-7

R. (7) You have given your Son rule over the works of your hands.O LORD, our LORD,how glorious is your name over all the earth!You have exalted your majesty above the heavens.Out of the mouths of babes and sucklingsyou have fashioned praise because of your foes. R.

When I behold your heavens, the work of your fingers,the moon and the stars which you set in place?What is man that you should be mindful of him,or the son of man that you should care for him? R.

You have made him little less than the angels,and crowned him with glory and honor.You have given him rule over the works of your hands,putting all things under his feet. R.

SCRIPTURAL REFLECTIONS

The Center for Liturgy at St. Louis University http://liturgy.slu.edu/

Pick a Sunday, then check out the resources:

Praying Toward Sunday Reading I: Isaiah 53:10-11Responsorial Psalm: 33:4-5, 18-19, 20, 22

Reading II: Hebrews 4:14-16Gospel: Mark 10:35-45 or 10:42-45

I ask the grace to see God's infinite love.  

Spirituality for Sunday 

Get to know the Readings 

Music of Sunday’s Mass 

SACRED SPACE - HTTP://WWW.SACREDSPACE.IE/

Daily Prayer online produced by the Irish Jesuits: • “We invite you to make a 'Sacred Space' in your

day, and spend ten minutes, praying here and now, as you sit at your computer, with the help

of on-screen guidance and scripture chosen specially every day.”

• Prayer, scripture, reflection questions, intercessions – click through screen by screen

as you are ready.

CAN EVEN USE FOR MEETINGS

• If you are part of any Church group in which you may need to lead prayer….some of these online resources are perfect…let’s try using one of the Loyola 3-minute retreats here as a group…

• Loyola 3 Minutes Retreats (I have emailed) • http://www.loyolapress.com/3-Minute-Retreat-making-room.htm?

updatedate=10/17/2012%206:30:06%20AM&utm_campaign=3-minute-retreat-daily-email&utm_medium=email&utm_source=3min-linkenglish

CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY RESOURCES

HTTP://WWW.CREIGHTON.EDU/COLLABORATIVEMINISTRY/ONLINE.HTML

• Online Ignatian Retreat• Daily reflections from/for college students

• Stations of the Cross• Audio retreats

THE ROSARY

• Online Rosary from the Cathedral of Mary Our QueenThe pictures you'll see in this online Rosary are scenes from the stained glass windows of the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen (CMOQ) in Baltimore.http://cathedralofmary.org/parish/spiritual/Marian/Rosary

• Scriptural Rosary Online http://www.scripturalrosary.org/BeginningPrayers.html

PRAYER CARDS

• Don’t want to carry and pull out traditional prayer cards? Then use the online version at the University of Notre Dame

• http://pray.nd.edu/assets/11440/irishprayer.pdf

• Designed to print out, but you do not have to!

• Example on next slide…

Irish Prayer

May the strength of God pilot us.

May the power of God preserve us.

May the wisdom of God instruct us.

May the hand of God protect us.

May the way of God direct us.

May the shield of God defend us.

Saint Patrick

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Daily Advent Reading, December 2~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Merton's Voice: For all God's gifts there must be in us a response of thanksgiving and happiness and joy: but here we thank Him less by words than by the serene happiness of silent acceptance.

Thomas Merton. Seeds of Contemplation. (Norfolk, CT: New Directions Books, 1949) p. 150

Prayer: O give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; his steadfast love endures forever! (NRSV Psalm: 118: 1.)~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

The Merton Institute for Contemplative Livingmertoninstitute.org

THE WORD AMONG US

• JUST added this year– online Lenten Bible Study –• six sessions, one for each week of Lent, on PRAYER. • Kevin Perrotta, an award-winning Catholic writer and

editor, will be leading the online discussion.

• Each session will have a five-minute video, • and there will be a question or topic for discussion for each

day of the week. • All materials (videos, questions, and online discussion) will

be available for free our Facebook page facebook.com/lentbiblestudy.

• “Join us this Lent as we journey together as an online community of Scripture readers. To find out more information go to wau.org/lentbiblestudy “

LITURGY OF THE HOURS

• Liturgy of the Hours Apostolate

• http://www.liturgyhours.org/ (skip)• This website offers daily Liturgy of the Hours Night Prayer in various

languages. The prayers are offered in Adobe Acrobat formats that print as booklets, display on PCs and mobile devices, and 'Read Out Loud' on PCs.

• Also subscriptions services to be automatically sent to your phone.

• English language prayers:

www.ebreviary.com offers daily Morning, Daytime, Evening and Night Prayer, plus the Office of Readings.

MORE LITURGY OF THE HOURS

• Universalis Publishing was started in 1995 with the aim of harnessing computer technology to help in enriching the spiritual life of Christians, specifically by making the liturgical and devotional resources of the Catholic Church available on the new electronic media.

http://www.universalis.com/cgi-bin/display/-600/index.htm

HTTP://WWW.SHRINESF.ORG/PRAYER_MENU.HTM

• The Angelus• The Chaplet of The Divine • MercyThe Chaplet of Saint Rita• The Exposition of the Blessed

Sacrament• Franciscan Prayers• Stations of the Cross (Via Crucis)• Vespers (Evening Prayer)

PRAYING WITH THE SAINTS

• St. Anthony Messenger offers history, a quote, and helpful information about the saint of each day. http://www.americancatholic.org/Features/SaintofDay/default.aspx

• uCatholic offers usually a longer history on the saint’s feast day. http://www.ucatholic.com/category/saints/

PRAYING WITH IMAGES, MUSIC

• Not all prayer is “left brained” needing to think and reflect logically…. We also need to be in touch with God through art, senses and images

• Use online images• Icons: Online catalogs – enlarge one

of the images• Sacred Art – on sites for museums,

Cathedrals, Shrines• ND Vision Bonus features – Models

of Faith - B&W images (http://vision.nd.edu/Welcome_to_Notre_Dame_Vision/Models_of_Faith.html)

• Picturing God – another feature on the Loyola Press website

• http://picturinggod.ignatianspirituality.com/

• Praying with Music

• iTunes (search by artist)• CatholicMusicNetwork.com ($.99)• SpiritandSong.com (some free)• MyCatholicVoice.com

• Videos that incorporate images and music• YouTube (as we started this session)• World Library Publications channel --

http://www.youtube.com/wlpjsp

• BTW – you know the Vatican is on YouTube, right?• http://www.youtube.com/user/vatican• As is USCCB http://www.youtube.com/user/usccb

Here are just a few of the top Catholic Apps for

iPhones, Androids, and Blackberries:

iPhones-

1. Catholic Calendar Universalis (free version)

The free version gives you a great liturgical calendar, the Liturgy of Hours and the Daily Mass reading.

2. Mass Times - Catholic Church Finder (free)

By teaming up with CatholicWeb.com and TheCatholicDirectory.com database, Mass Times helps you find the closest parish along with Mass times (and Confession times).

New! Saint of the Day—now available on the iPhone.

• For iPhone and Androids, by Cantcha Inc. • Full calendar of liturgical seasons,• Mass readings• Audio readings• Daily Bible verse• List of popular prayers• Connects to CatholicTV of Boston

4. Answers for Catholics ($1.99)

Use this application to quickly access a Biblical verse or subject when someone questions the reason you believe in a certain Catholic Doctrine, Discipline or World View.

3. IMISSAL ($4.99)

Androids- Catholic Mass Daily Readings (free)

This app is great! You can read any of the daily Mass readings or listen to them on podcast, it also has a reflection. This app also features the Liturgy of the Hours, a Rosary, the Stations of the Cross, and a list of Catholic Prayers.

BlackBerries- Catholic Prayer Book ($2.99)

The classics of Catholic devotional prayer offline and ready for easy study or daily meditations. All major prayers meticulously displayed in single screens. One button shuffle to a new one. Perfect for study on the go or a quiet moment when waiting in line. The prayers are entirely rendered offline, requiring no network connection or added data charges.

• Daily prayer for MP3 players, by the Jesuit Media Initiatives, London, England

• DL songs, prayers, reflections• Stations of the Cross, here, too• Mixes world music & perspectives with scripture===================TAIZE PRAYER• http://www.taize.fr/en_article681.html• MPS/podcasts from Taize prayers

PRAY AS YOU GOHTTP://WWW.PRAY-AS-YOU-GO.ORG/

Minute Meditations – obviously, short reflections – from St. Anthony Messenger

http://www.americancatholic.org/Features/Minute/default.aspx

Saint of the Day – can have it emailed to you

St. Jude weekly devotionals – one or more phrases with focus comments – from The Claretians and National Shrine of St. Jude in Chicago

http://blog.shrineofstjude.org/category/weekly-scriptures/weekly_devotions/

PRAYER PROMPTS/QUICKIES

• "I appeal to you: • bear witness to your faith • through the digital world!

• Employ these new technologies • to make the Gospel known, • so that the Good News • of God's infinite love for all people, • will resound in new ways • across our increasingly technological

world!“

-- Pope Benedict XVI, May 20, 2009 General Audience

A thought from the Holy Father:

• Working with Children• Our Sunday Visitor has reviewed some sites to

share• http://www.osv.com/OSV4MeNav/

TeacingCatholicKids/TeachingLinks/tabid/221/Default.aspx

• Catechist Café - Carla in DOY- ORE• Weekly email with link to a video or site • http://catechistcafe.weebly.com/

• Write down your suggestions, along with your email address, and then look for an email from ccase@youngstowndiocese.org in two weeks for the ideas shared here today.

• Closing Prayer –

• Taize is a special prayer form to me, and I LOVED experiencing it in France several years ago… since I cannot get there often enough, I can check into YouTube for some images and chants to give me a Taize break any time I am near a computer with internet! Enjoy with me as you leave today – and thanks for your participation!

• (Play “Bless the Lord”)• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4Svh-9ohg4