Places to Pray Online

The Monastery of Christ in the Desert. The Benedictine monks at the Monastery of Christ in the Desert offer online visitors a place to request a prayer, an opportunity to listen to audio clips of the monks chanting their prayers, and a brief history of St. Benedict and the Benedictine order. This is a wonderful site to explore with your students as you introduce them to the Catholic monastic experience.

Lord, Teach Us How to Pray. This Web site (one of several run by the Passionist Missionaries) offers a well-chosen selection of prayers for all occasions, a series of short essays and meditations on individual prayers and on prayer in general, a short "virtual retreat" to take online, an introduction to the prayers of the Church for very young children, and a page of links to other prayer resources on the Web.

Sacred Space The Irish Jesuits invite interested adults to a daily online meditation to deepen one’s experience with the sacred in his or her life. The site languages are English, Gaelic, Spanish, Portuguese, and Japanese, and many more. Here is an e-space where one can quiet the mind and nurture the soul.