Resources
Everything here is open to anyone. There is no account to make, nothing to pay, and nobody to talk to unless you want to.
Prayers
The prayers of the Catholic tradition in English, searchable by name, by another name for the same prayer, or by what you are actually facing. Each one carries a note saying what it is and when people pray it, and every text names the published source it was taken from.
Saint Profiles
Who the saints were, what they are patron of, when their feast falls, and what each one has to offer someone praying now. Written from authoritative Catholic sources and cited line by line, so you can check anything you read.
Preparing for Confession
What actually happens in the sacrament of Penance, step by step: the examination of conscience, contrition, the confession itself, absolution, and the penance. Written for someone who has been away a long time and is not sure how it goes any more.
Understanding the Mass
A walk through the Mass in order — what each part is, why it is there, and when the congregation stands, sits and kneels. Includes what changes across the seasons and holy days, and how the Ordinary Form and the older Latin Mass differ.
Liturgical Calendar
The Church’s year for the dioceses of the United States: every Sunday, solemnity, feast and memorial, with its rank, its liturgical color, and whether it is a holy day of obligation. Three years, on a calendar you can look a date up in.
About these pages
These pages are written from authoritative Catholic sources — the Catechism, the Code of Canon Law, the General Instruction of the Roman Missal and the documents of the Holy See — and every claim is cited to the place you can check it.
They do not reproduce the texts of the liturgy. The English translation of the Roman Missal belongs to the International Commission on English in the Liturgy and the Lectionary readings to the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, and we are not licensed to publish either. Where you need the words themselves, these pages say where to find them.
GraceBook is not a publisher of liturgical books, and nothing here is the text to be used in the liturgy. If you find an error, tell us and we will correct it.