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Spiritual Resources
As we continue to work together to find our way through the changes and challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, here are resources to help you stay connected to your faith.
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act of spiritual communion
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When, for any reason, we cannot participate in Mass, the Church invites us to unite with Christ through this prayer of Spiritual Communion. Praying this prayer is a beautiful way to unite our hearts to Christ's when we cannot receive him physically in the Eucharist.
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radio programming
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- We Are One Body (WAOB) Catholic Radio (broadcasts daily Masses)
- WAOB-AM 860
- WAOB-FM 106.7
- WPGR-AM 1510.
- Catholic Education Plus, hosted by Father Tom Burke on Sundays at 6:30 am on KDKA-AM 1020
- WJPA-1450 in Washington County carries Mass from Immaculate Conception Parish at 10:35 am every Sunday.
- “Amplify,” hosted by Msgr. Ron Lengwin on Sundays at 9:00 pm on KDKA-AM 1020.
- We Are One Body (WAOB) Catholic Radio (broadcasts daily Masses)
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Stream services from parishes
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Archangel Gabriel Parish, Sundays at 10 am
Butler Area Catholic Parishes
Cranberry/Ellwood City/Zelienople
Christ the Divine Shepherd
Most Precious Blood of Jesus, Brighton Heights
The Pittsburgh Oratory
Saint Isidore the Farmer Parish
Saint Joan of Arc & Saint Louise de Marillac, South Hills
Saints John and Paul, Franklin Park on YouTube or Facebook
Saint Matthias Parish
Saints Simon and Jude, Greentree
Saint Teresa of Kolkata Parish
Shrines of Pittsburgh on Facebook or Vimeo
Masses, prayers, and reflections in Spanish.
Misas, oraciones y reflexiones en español.
Mass is also broadcast daily from St. Paul Church in Butler on Armstrong Channel 10.
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prayer, scripture, and additional resources
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- Read daily Mass readings and additional prayers through Magnificat for free here.
- The free Laudate app hosts Catholic prayer, devotions, daily Scripture readings, and prayers amid the coronavirus. Multiple languages are available.
- Pray the Divine Mercy Chapet, available here.
- Prayers for the sick, the elderly, and the dying
- Catholic prayers for death and dying
- Prayers for Protection against the Pandemic
- Prayer to the Holy Cross for an End to the Plague
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prayer for racial healing
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God of justice, In your wisdom you create all people in your image, without exception.
Through your goodness, open our eyes to see the dignity, beauty, and worth of every human being.
Open our minds to understand that all your children are brothers and sisters in the same human family.
Open our hearts to repent of racist attitudes, behaviors, and speech which demean others.
Open our ears to hear the cries of those wounded by racial discrimination, and their passionate appeals for change.
Strengthen our resolve to make amends for past injustices and to right the wrongs of history.
And fill us with courage that we might seek to heal wounds, build bridges, forgive and be forgiven, and establish peace and equality for all in our communities.
In Jesus’ name we pray.
Amen.
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pope francis' prayer to our lady, imploring her protection amid the coronavirus
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O Mary, you shine continuously on our journey as a sign of salvation and hope.
We entrust ourselves to you, Health of the Sick.
At the foot of the Cross you participated in Jesus’ pain, with steadfast faith.
You, Salvation of the Roman People, know what we need.
We are certain that you will provide, so that, as you did at Cana of Galilee, joy and feasting might return after this moment of trial.
Help us, Mother of Divine Love, to conform ourselves to the Father’s will and to do what Jesus tells us:
He who took our sufferings upon Himself, and bore our sorrows to bring us, through the Cross, to the joy of the Resurrection. Amen.
We seek refuge under your protection, O Holy Mother of God.
Do not despise our pleas – we who are put to the test – and deliver us from every danger, O glorious and blessed Virgin.
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Pittsburgh connection: Blessed Francis Seelos
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When serious illness strikes, Blessed Francis Seelos (1819-1867), a missionary priest from the Redemptorist order, is especially close to the Diocese of Pittsburgh. Father Seelos served the immigrant community in and around Pittsburgh from 1845 to 1854. He founded an orphanage in Troy Hill and gave his own shoes and gloves to people on the street who had none.
He later died in New Orleans of yellow fever he caught while caring for victims of a yellow fever epidemic. Stories of miraculous healing through his intercession began almost immediately after his death and continue. One of the best known occurred in the Pittsburgh neighborhood of Lawrenceville, where a dying toddler was reported healed of measles, meningitis and pneumonia in 1872, after his grandmother prayed in Saint Augustine Church for the intercession of Father Seelos. He was beatified in 2000.
Prayer to Blessed Seelos:
Divine Physician, you infused Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos with the gift of Your healing. By the help of his prayers, sustain in me the grace to know Your will and the strength to overcome my afflictions. For love of You, make me whole. May I learn from the example of Father Seelos and gain comfort from his patient endurance. Amen.
-Composed by Byron Miller, C.S.S.R.
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