Helpful resources for faith during this time with COVID-19
Online resources:
As Bishop Mark Brennan has noted there are many online websites and mobile apps to enrich our spirit during this time.
We are all God’s children. Receive His love through daily readings, prayer and reflections.
Here is a list of resources for you and your loved ones. In addition to our diocesan website, the United States Catholic Conference of Bishops’ website, usccb.org, has a plethora of resources presented in text, audio, and video formats.
- Daily Readings written http://usccb.org/bible/readings
- Daily Readings audio http://usccb.org/bible/readings-audio.cfm
- Video Reflection http://usccb.org/bible/reflections/index.cfm
The usccb.org site will also give you tutorials on how to pray the Rosary, the Divine Chaplet, and other prayers and devotions. - Daily Reflection from The Word Among Us can be accessed at https://wau.org/meditations/
- EWTN Catholic Radio Daily Schedule https://www.ewtn.com/radio/schedule
- Access The Magnificat free online at https://www.osvnews.com
- Liturgical Press is providing free access to a digital file for Give Us This Day, which includes the daily Mass texts: https://giveusthisday.org/Digital
- National Catholic Register has Catholic news, stories, blogs, etc. at ncregister.com
- Discover a saint special to you at Catholic News Service’s Patron Saints page: https://www.catholicnews.com/patron-saints.cfm
- Catholic enrichment site for children: Catholicsprouts.com
- For teens and twenty-somethings: lifeteen.com
- For Catholic headline news: catholicnewsagency.com
- Daily Living with Fr. Chapin: mydailyliving.com
A message from Most Rev. Mark Brennan, Bishop of Wheeling-Charleston.
Dispensation from the obligation to attend Mass:
“While no member of the Faithful is bound to attend Mass where impossibility arises, West Virginia borders a number of dioceses in which Masses are still being publicly celebrated, and many of our Faithful are easily able to attend those Masses. Owing to the grave nature of the current public health crisis, and not wishing that any of our flock be compelled to place themselves unnecessarily at risk, I hereby dispense all those who reside within the territory of the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston from their obligation to attend Mass. The intention of this dispensation, along with the suspension of public liturgies in the Diocese, is to encourage the Faithful to practice ‘social distancing’ and ‘self-quarantine’ to the extent that their state of life permits, by which we hope to contribute to the containment and end of the current pandemic.”
—Most Rev. Mark Brennan