• Coronavirus COVID-19 Information and Resources

March 5, 2021

• Assessing the Morality of COVID-19 Vaccines Developed with Abortion-Derived Tissue: A Register Guide (NCR). Which vaccines appear to be most acceptable, in light of the U.S. bishops’ new guidance regarding vaccines that utilized abortion-derived tissues in their development and testing?

March 4, 2021

• ALLESL: A team of ESL teachers from Japan, South Korea and China who built this website to provide students and teachers the basics for English language learning and teaching. This includes: Geography, Grammar, Pronunciation, Speaking, Teaching, Vocabulary, Writing, Worksheets.
• MS Excel Tutorial (Compute Expert): A collection of tutorials which should help you use MS Excel more optimally! Covers topics like Excel Calculations, Excel Formulas, Excel Tips & Tricks.
• Sunday to Sunday, the Preaching Journey. Our Emmy winning television series profiles great preachers is hosted by Father Mike Russo. Explore how to listen to the gospel and to hear the deeply felt reflections of its witnesses. Ours is a commitment to the preaching ministry and to those who inspire us.
  • “Inside” Sunday to Sunday podcasts — Zoom Recordings
• Ultimate Guide to Mental Health in the Workplace (Mental Health Services in Southern California). “The workplace is a great place to host activities that improve adult wellbeing…Wellness programs can identify employees at risk for mental health disorders and help connect them to proper treatment and support. Employers can benefit from addressing mental health issues, reducing healthcare costs for the business and employees.”

March 3, 2021

• How a Changing Virus Is Reshaping Scientists’ Views on COVID-19: March 3 (Reuters) — Chris Murray, a University of Washington disease expert…is changing his assumptions about the course of the pandemic.…But in the last month, data from a vaccine trial in South Africa showed not only that a rapidly-spreading coronavirus variant could dampen the effect of the vaccine, it could also evade natural immunity in people who had been previously infected.
• New Rapid Expert Consultation Offers Strategies for Navigating Disaster Response, Evacuation, and Sheltering Complicated by COVID-19 (National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine)
• Money Fit Academy: Free Online courses to help you build your financial capability.
• Free Budget and Financial Calculators to Improve Your Finances

March 2, 2021

• Small Business Resources: 35 useful small business resources (2021 edition).
• 12 Tips To Consider When Choosing A Backup Generator: Power outages are always a present threat to many consumers. Generators can come to the rescue when you lose power. Modern home backup generators can sense a power outage and turn on automatically, delivering seamless electricity.

February 22, 2021

• “Spiritual Direction & Scrupulosity” by Fr. Thomas M. Santa, CssR, Scrupulous Anonymous, 02/01/2021
• An Ignatian Prayer Adventure. This is an adapted version from the longer retreat in The Ignatian Adventure by Kevin O’Brien, SJ. The eight-week schedule makes it perfectly timed as a Lent and Easter retreat, but the adventure can be started at any time, on your schedule.
  • Before You Begin | Week 1: Love, Freedom, and Purpose | Week 2: Finding God in All Things | Week 3: Something’s Broken | Week 4: Knowing Jesus | Week 5: What Do I Really Want? | Week 6: The Public Ministry of Jesus | Week 7: The Suffering Jesus | Week 8: God’s Love and Our Response

February 20, 2021

• Conservation Biology for All: Download FREE, Full Text
• Beginner's Guide to the Vegan Diet

February 18, 2021

• Lent 2021: A Collection of Resources and Inspiration for Lent (Franciscan University)
  • Lent 2021: Finding Intimacy With Jesus. Asking the deeper questions, praying in the stillness and quiet of our hearts, can help us encounter Jesus and experience the real transformation in holiness we desire during Lent, says Father Dave Pivonka, TOR, president of Franciscan University of Steubenville.
  • Franciscan40: A Lenten Journey (Franciscan University)

February 15, 2021

• What Is Lent and Why Is it Celebrated? (EWTN): Reflections, Resources, Devotions
• Guide to Lent 2021: Living the Penitential Season Well (NCR). Discover prayerful tips for these 40 days.
• Welcome, Lent by Amy Ekeh (Franciscan Media)
• Frequently Asked Questions about Lent and Easter (Franciscan Media)
• 40 Days at the Foot of the Cross (MyCatholicLife): A Gaze of Love from the Heart of Our Blessed Mother
• Recipes for Mardi Gras & Fat Tuesday and Lent

February 11, 2021

• “A Personal Ecological Conversion” by Fr. Brian Cavanaugh, TOR. The time is now for each of us to develop a personal ecological conversion; to develop a profound respect for and deep sense of personal responsibility for the whole created order.

February 10, 2021

• CDC Updates Coronavirus Face Mask Guidance, Endorses 'Double Masking': The CDC updated its mask guidance on Wednesday to include data from a lab experiment using simulated respiratory breaths that found placing a cloth mask over a medical procedure mask or using a medical procedure mask with knotted ear loops and tucked in sides decreased exposure to potentially infectious aerosols by about 95%.
• StoryArts by Heather Forest: Storytelling in the Classroom, Lesson Plans & Activities, Articles and more.
• Grammica: Our grammar checker provides you free spelling and sentence check service. It provides free online grammar check, paraphrasing, proofreading services.

February 3, 2021

• I’ve Had My Covid-19 Vaccine — Now What Can I Safely Do? Sandee LaMotte, CNN Health | February 3, 2021. Read on for answers from the experts on top questions such as when can you stop wearing a mask, eat inside a restaurant, travel, go to sporting events and concerts, and freely visit friends and family.
• Taste of Home: Recipes, Dinner, Baking
  • 70 Classic Homemade Soup Recipes: Simmer up one of these homemade soup recipes on a cool day. Check out our favorite recipes for chicken noodle, French onion, split pea and more!

January 29, 2021

• The Dangers of Mixing Alcohol and Drugs: A Dangerous Combination.
• SeniorCare: A Senior Living and Senior Care Resource. A nationwide directory and a team of experts to do what they can to aid seniors and their families in their quest for a better life.
• Cost of Living Calculator (Money Geek): Compare City Costs and Salaries. Free cost of living calculator lets you compare costs and salaries between two cities. Determine what you need to make in a new city to maintain your current standard of living.

January 20, 2021

• "Ways to Protest Morally-tainted Vaccines-and Why" by Dr. Jeff Mirus, Jan 19, 2021
• "How to Object to an Abortion-Tainted COVID-19 Vaccine" by Stacy Trasancos, December 21, 2020. The Pontifical Academy for Life has said that Catholics may use, in a narrowly defined limit, vaccines prepared with cell lines derived from aborted children, but with strong warnings regarding our obligation to protest. Here's how to demand ethical options in biomedical research.

January 19, 2021

• Moral & Ethical Questions about the COVID-19 Vaccines

January 18, 2021

• The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity (International Version): Resources for throughout the year 2021. Jointly prepared by the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity and the Commission on Faith and Order of the World Council of Churches.
  • Week of Prayer for Christian Unity – Daily Biblical Reflections (Click on box).

January 16, 2021

• 2021 Week of Prayer for Christian Unity in Rome 18-25 January but with restrictions due to the pandemic (Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity). The theme of this year's Week of Prayer for Christian Unity is "Abide in my love…You shall bear much fruit" (John 15:1-17).
  • Week of Prayer for Christian Unity January 18-25 (USCCB): The theme of this year's Week of Prayer for Christian Unity is "Abide in my love…You shall bear much fruit" (John 15:1-17). Link contains resources for celebrating the Week for Christian Unity.

January 15, 2021

• Must Catholics Refuse a Covid-19 Vaccine Made with a Cell Line from an Abortion? The Catholic Spirit | Father Tadeusz Pacholczyk | December 10, 2020. In the wake of announcements from multiple pharmaceutical companies about safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines, many are expressing ethical doubts about whether it is OK to take these vaccines. Do Catholics have a moral duty to decline an inoculation if it was unethically produced using a cell line that came from an abortion? The short answer is "no."
• What You Need to Know about the COVID-19 Vaccines (Charlotte Lozier Institute (CLI)): David Prentice, Ph.D., Tara Sander Lee, Ph.D. | December 8, 2020. Charlotte Lozier Institute (CLI) has published a new chart detailing whether the eight leading COVID-19 vaccine candidates supported by Operation Warp Speed are produced or tested using cells derived from abortions. The vaccine candidates evaluated are those produced by Pfizer/BioNTech, Moderna, AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson, Novavax, Sanofi/GSK, Inovio, and Merck.

January 10, 2021

• "A Prayer for the Healing of Our Nation" Fr. Brian Cavanaugh, TOR

January 8, 2021

• Rules of Spiritual Discernment: a discussion of how we find our vocation and even choose our lesser missions, purposes, activities and goals as our lives unfold.
  • The First Rule of Discernment is to recognize and obey what the Lord tells us to do through the Church.
  • The Second Rule of Discernment is that every gift we have is to be used for God's glory.
  • The Third Rule of Discernment is prayer
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January 7, 2021

• USCCB: “End of Life” resources and articles.
• “The Writings of St. Francis of Assisi” tr. by Father Pascal Robinson. This short anthology of the writings of St. Francis includes a wide sampling of his writings.
• Those with Mild Coronavirus Experience Loss of Taste, Smell in 86% of Cases (Journal of Internal Medicine): "[Olfactory dysfunction] is more prevalent in mild COVID-19 forms than in moderate-to-critical forms," the researchers said in the study, noting that according to their research, 75% to 85% of people regained their ability to taste and smell two months after their infection, while 95% of patients regained their ability to taste and smell at six months.

January 6, 2021

• CDC: When Vaccine is Limited, Who Gets Vaccinated First? (1/5/2021): CDC recommends that initial supplies of COVID-19 vaccine be allocated in Phase 1A to healthcare personnel and long-term care facility residents. Phase 1B: Frontline essential workers such as fire fighters, police officers, corrections officers, food and agricultural workers, United States Postal Service workers, manufacturing workers, grocery store workers, public transit workers, and those who work in the educational sector (teachers, support staff, and daycare workers). And, people aged 75 years and older because they are at high risk of hospitalization, illness, and death from COVID-19. People aged 75 years and older who are also residents of long-term care facilities should be offered vaccination in Phase 1A. Phase 1C: People aged 65—74 years because they are at high risk of hospitalization, illness, and death from COVID-19. People aged 65—74 years who are also residents of long-term care facilities should be offered vaccination in Phase 1a. People aged 16—64 years with underlying medical conditions which increase the risk of serious, life-threatening complications from COVID-19. Other essential workers, such as people who work in transportation and logistics, food service, housing construction and finance, information technology, communications, energy, law, media, public safety, and public health.

January 5, 2021

• Helping College Students Kick Substance Abuse: Starting college is thrilling, especially for students who are new to living independently away from home. College is also a time for some students to experiment with drugs and alcohol, and some of them end up abusing these substances. With professional help, support from family and friends, and essential resources, college students can kick substance abuse.
• How COVID-19 Affects the Mental Health of Seniors: If you are in the 65 and up age group it has probably limited your social interaction even more than others. These extra precautions the elderly have to take has affected their mental health and feelings of loneliness more than usual.