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Here is a resource to help you pray with the Sunday Gospel:

• Reflection on the Gospel for the Sixth Week of Easter : This resource presents a reflection on the Sunday Gospel with questions to ponder .

Here are a few other resources for feasts and special days this month of May:

• Prayers for Mothers this Mother’s Day: this resources provides several prayers for moms
• The Story of Fatima and Links to Resources: this resource from the website mycatholic.life tells the story of Mary’s apparitions and links to resources to help you pray and reflect
• Pope Leo’s Message for the World Day of Social Communications: this resource from the Holy See is an important message inviting us to reflect on the power of Social Communications, including AI, and how we respond and live with our various screens.

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Here are two resources to help you pray with the Sunday Gospel:

• Reflection on the Gospel for the Fifth Week of Easter : This resource presents a reflection on the Sunday Gospel with questions to ponder .

Here are a few other resources: a prayer for peace and ones to help you continue to celebrate the Easter season:

• Stations of the Resurrection: this resource from the Catholic Archdiocese of Adelaide presents the Via Lucis – the Way of Light which invites you to meditate on the resurrection of Jesus and some of the post-resurrection events recorded in the New Testament
• The Appearances of Jesus: this resource article from Thinking Faith Jesuit website examines the Gospel accounts of the appearances of the risen Jesus
• Prayer for Peace: this resource is a prayer for peace written by Pope Francis

Here are two resources to help you pray with the Sunday Gospel:

• Reflection on the Gospel for the Fourth Week of Easter : This resource presents a reflection on the Sunday Gospel with questions to ponder .
• How to Pray with an Icon and Icons of Jesus the Good Shepherd: This resource presents the way one can pray with an icon and several different icons to pray with on this Good Shepherd Sunday

Here are a few other resources:  World Day of Prayer for Vocations, teaching on Just War and remembering Pope Francis:

• Just War Teaching from the Catechism: this resource from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops summarizes our teaching on Just War
• A Rosary for Vocations: this resource from the diocese of Manchester in England presents a way to link praying the rosary with a prayer for vocations
• Prayer Service on the Anniversary of Pope Francis’ Entering Eternal Life: this resource from Loyola Press presents a prayer service for home or school that remembers Pope Francis

Here is a resource to help you pray with the Sunday Gospel (3rd Sunday of Easter)

• Reflection on the Gospel for the Third Week of Easter : This resource presents a reflection on the Sunday Gospel with questions to ponder .

Here are a few resources to help you celebrate Earth Day, April 22:

• A Prayer Service for Earth Day: this resources is from the Center of Concern
• Care for Creation: Earth Day Prayer Service: this resource is from the Center of Concern

Here are a few resources in this time of war:

• Prayers for Peace: this resource provides three prayers for peace to be prayed.
• Litany of Light and Peace: this resource is from Education for Justice
• Urbi et Orbi – Pope Leo’s Easter Message: this resource presents Pope Leo’s Easter message which called for an end to war and a move to peace.