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Resources for Faith Sharing Communities 2008 - Websites
800. www.sccc.org
Small Christian Community Connection (originally known as Buena Vista) is a Catholic network of people whose vision is a church made up of many diverse communities each reflecting the ecclesial characteristics of community/mutuality, service/prayer/ritual and scripture-based witness.
801. www.spiritofchrist.org
This website originates from Spirit of Christ, one of the earliest SCCs in the country and, which subsequently founded Buena Vista, the grass-roots organization for Small Christian Communities cited above. Buena Vista has changed its name to Small Christian Community Connection.
802. www.saintfrancis.net/links.htm
This Catholic Website Directory offers a comprehensive listing of Catholic links with several of particular relevance to the needs of SCCs.
803. www.vatican.va
The official website of the Vatican can provide many, if not most of your needs, on the Church and her teachings.
804. www.catholic-church.org/cid/
The Catholic Internet Directory (1999) is a broad-based listing of links to Catholic websites with some relevance to SCCs. A copy of the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia is available.
805. www.personal.psu.edu/
users/d/d/ddz/faith.htm
The information is dated but does provide abundant referrels to SCC issues, organizations and training. This is not a Catholic website.
806. www.goodgroundpress.com
Good Ground Press is one of many publishers offering resources pertinent to the needs of SCCs.
807. www.google.com
Enter Christian Faith-Sharing or Small Groups or Small Christian Community at the search bar and you will bring up many websites. You will discover many more in the process.
808. www.renewintl.org
RENEW International is a leader in SCCs and offers publications, resources and training as well as links directly related to SCCs.
809. www.smallgroups.com
This is not a Catholic site, but abounds in information and issues about SCCs. A newsletter is also available. Much is available free-of-charge but membership is open to all and is inexpensive.
810. www.shc.edu/theolibrary/bible.htm
A bible website that offers under the title of Theology Library: Sacred Scripture, The Bible On-Line, The Bible, Hebrew Scriptures, and Directories.
811. www.jesuit.ie/prayer/index.htm
Take a break at this inspirational website. Pray alone or adapt for a community and be led into a refreshing prayerful experience before God.
812. www.udayton.edu/~vlc/
This website is focused on the interests of religious educators but has some excellent resources of interest to SCCs.
813. www.liturgy.slu.edu
The Center for Liturgy at St. Louis University offers a weekly in-depth experience to the Sunday liturgy under the topics of Praying Toward Sunday; Spirituality for Sunday; Get to Know the Readings; Music of Sunday/s Mass and Student Reflections for College/High School. The section of greatest relevance for SCCs and faith-sharing groups is Spirituality for Sunday which includes each of the three readings. Most impressive! Check it out!
814. www.OnceCatholic.org
The mission of OnceCatholic.org is to put inactive Catholics back in touch with face-to-face communities of Catholics. Along the way, OnceCatholic.org wants to walk with each person as he or she sorts through their issues with the Church. This is a ministry of the Franciscan Friars of St. John the Baptist Province of Cincinnati, Ohio.
815. www.pncea.org
The Paulist Fathers Office for Evangelization offers evangelization resources, training institutes and projects such as Share the Word, Disciples in Action, and Take Another Look, etc.
816. www.americancatholic.org/
Messenger/Jun2001/Editorial.asp
An excellent article covering the nine most common reasons Catholics become inactive and some concrete ways that we can reach out to them.
817. www.usccb.org/evangelization/index.htm
A USCCB site with resources and publications on Catholic evangelization as well as a calendar of conferences and events and an on-line newsletter called Evangelization Express.
818. www.paulistpress.com
Here is an outstanding publisher of Catholic books with many resources for SCCs and faith-sharing groups.
819. www.litpress.org
The website of yet another outstanding Catholic book publisher, the Liturgical Press.
820. www.wau.org
The website of The Word Among Us offers an excellent variety of resources for individuals and faith-sharing groups.
821. www.celebratingtheword.com
Celebrating the Word offers a user-friendly process to help people break open Sunday's liturgy as a faith-sharing experience.
822. www.rcnet.net
This site offers many services as well as links to Catholic websites and publications.
823. www.zenit.org
ZENIT provides free daily dispatches and weekly news reports of events, documents and issues emanating from or concerning the Catholic Church.
824. www.stepnd@nd.edu
Here you will find online courses on Catholic doctrine, scripture, liturgy, and other subjects pertinent to our Catholic faith.
825. www.liturgyhours.org
This website offers daily printouts of the Liturgy of the Hours Morning, Evening and Night Prayer in Adobe Acrobat format, plus Night Prayer in Spanish, French, Italian, and Portuguese. These prayers are sometimes referred to as the Divine Office, Breviary, Lauds, Vespers, and Compline.
826. www.rc.net
RCNet is a leading Catholic Portal to the Internet. They host Catholic content, provide directories and links to many helpful websites and organizations, and host home pages and domains for parishes and organizations. The site also offers free web pages for Catholic parishes and approved organizations. Also found here are resources and links: daily Mass; Lauds, Vespers; The Office of Readings; Daily Meditations, Catechism: The Catholic Encyclopedia, The World Seen from Rome (Zenit News Agency); Vatican News Service and The Holy See. Telephone: 734-930-7290
827. www.salvationhistory.com
St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology: Reading the Bible from the Heart of the Church provides a broad and rich spectrum of scriptural related materials – courses, studies, articles. Here is a virtual library to browse, take courses or download research of Catholic documents, etc. Dr. Scott Hand founded the Center.
828. www.tcld.net
Totally Catholic Link Director is rich in resources and may still be under reconstruction.
829. www.ewtn.org
Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN) – explore the site. Many resources are available in their regular programming as well as through publications, DVD, VHR, and links. Among its many offerings is their bible search organized to take your directly to the chapter and verse in the Revised Standard Version (RSV) you are seeking.
830. www.goodshepherd.org
Good Shepherd On Line posts faith-sharing questions for the Sundays of the year and is a virtual library of information on small Christian communities.
831. www.wordonfire.org
A program of Catholic evangelical preaching and teaching is what you will find on this every contemporary website with available downloads of sermons as well as Podcasts and MP3 capabilities. Books and DVDs are also available.
Word on Fire is a program of Catholic evangelical preaching. It is evangelical in the measure that it proclaims Jesus Christ boldly in the hopes of bringing men and women to conversion and new life in Him. It is Catholic inasmuch as it utilizes the tremendous resources of the Roman Catholic tradition – art, architecture, poetry, philosophy, theology, and the lives of the saints – in order to explain and interpret the event of Jesus Christ. It is my hope that this outreach can draw people into the body of Christ, which is the Church, and thereby give them access to all the gifts that Jesus wants his people to enjoy. -Fr. Robert Barron.
832. www.bibliaclerus.org is a new website launched by the Vatican Congregation for the Clergy and allows researchers Bible verses with exegesis from Doctors of the Chuch or cross-reference liturgical tests with commentaries from Church Fathers. This site offers six categories in nine languages. It also gives the option of downloading the site's content. The nine translations of the Bible, including Hebrew and Greek, can be read side by side, as can the Eastern and Latin Codes of Canon Law. This is a "dazzling" resource.
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Office of Parish Life
Small Christian Community Ministry
Coordinator: Bob Bursley
609-406-7400 ext. 5623
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