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For your own spiritual development:
  • The Word Made Clear is an Archdiocesan ministry with comprehensive online Bible  studies.
  • Pray As You Go - an excellent podcast for daily prayer. Download or listen online.
  • The Liturgy of the Hours is available at  Divine Office. Also available at iBreviary.
  • A guide to  Lectio Divina - Sacred Reading 
    • Find the daily mass readings here if you would like to use these for lectio
  • Using Ignatian Meditation   to pray the Scriptures.
  • Sacred Space from the Irish Jesuits.
  • Three Minute Retreat    from Loyola Press.
  • The  daily Examen  of consciousness/conscience
  • Joining with Catholics around the world praying for the Pope's intentions with the  Apostleship of Prayer.
  • OSV has a nice app that supports the prayer of catechists.
  • The Elements of the Catholic Mass from the Liturgical Institute at Mundelein