Visit the Jesuit Retreat Center of Los Altos. The JRC offers retreats of all kinds, including online retreats and Ignatian Spirituality resources. There are so many ways to encounter God at The Jesuit Retreat Center – during prayer in the beautiful chapel; along the wooded paths that look out onto breathtaking mountain vistas; while slowly waking the Labyrinth and then visiting the nearby brook; or discovering a new author in the bookstore.

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FORMED is the premier Catholic streaming service that is FREE for our parishioners! The first time you visit the site, sign up using “St. Nicholas Church” as your parish and follow the prompts. Then sign-in for the very best Catholic content including thousands of movies, children’s programs, ebooks, audio, and studies.

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Bishop Robert Barron’s Word On Fire is a 
global Catholic ministry that draws people into their faith using the tremendous resources of the Roman Catholic tradition – art, architecture, poetry, philosophy, theology and lives of the saints.

Our parish subscribes to Word On Fire as a service to our parishioners. Follow these instructions to setup your access to this amazing resource!

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Lectio Divina or “sacred reading” is an ancient method of praying with scripture that dates to the fourth century. The basic idea is to spend time listening deeply and intently to what God might have to say to you through the text. Lectio divina is traditionally divided into four steps: lectio (reading), meditatio (meditation), oratio (prayer), and contemplatio (contemplation). There are many books and online resources that you can use to explore this practice more deeply.

Lectio Divina for families

Universalis is a digitial resource for the Liturgies and Devotions of the Catholic Church. The Liturgy of the Hours is available on their web site, as apps, downloads, and e-books. The Mass is also available: both the readings at Mass and the unique "Mass Today" page which combines the Order of Mass with the prayers and readings in one continuous stream. Visitors to the Universalis web site include priests, laity, the young, and the old. 

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About Today - Biographies and reflections; Saints and Feasts of the Day from all over the world.

Readings at Mass - For the day and week ahead. 

See the next column for links for praying the Liturgy of the Hours (Divine Office).
 

The Liturgy of the Hours (also known as the Divine Office) is the richest single prayer resource of the Catholic Church. It provides prayers, psalms and meditation for every hour of every day. It has existed from the earliest times, to fulfill the Lord's command to pray without ceasing.  All over the world, hundreds of thousands of priests and religious have vowed to pray the Liturgy of the Hours daily, and all over the world they do, in public and in private, in tin shacks and cathedrals, in palaces and in prison camps.

The Liturgy of the Hours provides the means for the whole world, united, to pray together and sanctify every hour of every day of every year. The complete books (6,000 pages known as the Breviary) include the four-week cycle of psalms, saint celebrations, and prayer. The Breviary is expensive to buy, heavy to carry, and complex to use. Universalis provides this material digitaly to encourage anyone to join in praying the Liturgy of the Hours:

Office of Readings with Invitatory and without Invitatory

Lauds (Morning Prayer) with Invitatory and without Invitatory

Terce (Mid-Morning Prayer)

Sext (Midday Prayer)

None (Afternoon Prayer)

Vespers (Evening Prayer)

Compline (Night Prayer)