Virtual Resources for a Real Faith

Vatican News Live Streaming Pope Francis’ Masses   

Catholic TV Mass  

Catholic Faith Network Masses

Chaldean Diocese of St. Thomas the Apostle

The Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception

University of Notre Dame Masses  

St. Patrick’s Cathedral New York 

Adorecast – Live Perpetual Adoration 

San Fernando Cathedral San Antonio – Mass in Spanish

The Face of Prayer (with Bp. Frank Caggiano) 

Word On Fire Daily Masses 

• Establish your new family schedule– allow kids to have a real impact on what their days are going to look like. be intentional about things like screen time, getting outside, and physical activity.
• It’s a great time to teach everyone in the family to cook! There are great things like homemade pasta that you probably never have time to make.
• Have a family dance party!
• Have a kid that hasn’t learned to ride a bike yet? This is the perfect time.
• With the library closed, take advantage of their free services like Hoopla and Overdrive to have access to eBooks and audiobooks.
• Nature hiking.
• Start indoor seeds (Now is a great time! Get some native wildflower seeds or vegetable seeds and start them inside and they will be ready to plant in May!)
• Spring cleaning! Work on fixing up or organizing an area of the house.
• Painting (outside if it’s nice).
• Have the kids prepare a play to perform in the evening.
• Using a platform like Nextdoor, organize people to place something in their windows so that families can go walking around the neighborhood and count how many they can find.
• Build a fort!
• Have a formal tea party one afternoon.
• Do an elaborate baking project and share it on social media.
• Use up all of those art and craft kits that have collected from your kids’ birthdays!
• Play 1 board game as a family each week
• Look up 1 new card game each week and play it.

• Call or email (or socially network with) your parents and grandparents, relatives, and any friends who may feel isolated, living alone, or who may be susceptible to the Coronavirus to provide a kind word, to see what help they need, or to provide your love and support in these challenging days.
• Offer to get groceries or other necessities for those who cannot go out.
• Check on friends who live alone to see if they need anything
• Have compassion for those most at risk and advocate for vulnerable populations in society (the elderly, those in poverty, homeless persons, persons with disabilities, those already sick or hospitalized, those with compromised immune systems, among others)