Online Texts & Media on Forgiveness of Sins outside Confession

See these online texts and media on the forgiveness of sins, especially mortal sins, outside the Sacrament of Reconciliation:

List of websites that live-stream Holy Mass

INTRODUCTION

This special post of the Catholic eBooks Project provides:

1. A partial list of websites that live-stream or upload videos of the Holy Mass or Holy Qurbono/Qurbana or Divine Liturgy, alphabetically grouped under the several Rites the one true Church;
2. Suggestions on other means of accessing Holy Mass online; and
3. Resources on exceptional means of observing the Sunday obligation.

This index of resources is offered for the benefit of the faithful who live in areas where authorities have suspended public celebration of the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass due to the current pandemic, or who have themselves been quarantined, or who are otherwise unable to hear Holy Mass in person for just and grave reasons.

Online ebook: The Saint Andrew Hymnal, for Use in Scottish Dioceses

See this online ebook:

• The Saint Andrew Hymnal, Authorized by the Archbishops and Bishops of Scotland for Use in the Scottish Dioceses (Glasgow: John S. Burns & Sons, 1964). Digitized by Colin Edwin Jackson, F.S.C.O., May 2015. Available in pdf format through the post “PDF • Scottish Catholic Hymnal (453 Pages)”, by Jeff Ostrowski, 27 August 2018 at Corpus Christi Watershed.

On the Feast of Saint Andrew the Apostle in the one true and Catholic Church. For other texts and ebooks on various subjects, you may access the List of Free eBooks (Arranged by Title), the List of Free eBooks (Grouped by Subject), the List of Worth-It Catholic Books & eBooks, and the main page of the Catholic eBooks Project.

Free ebook: “The Liturgical Year: Advent”, by Abbot Prosper Guéranger

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• The Liturgical Year: Advent, 2nd edition, by the Very Rev. Dom Prosper Guéranger, Abbot of Solesmes, translated by Dom Laurence Shepherd (Dublin, London: James Duffy, 1870). With an Introduction by Henry Edward Manning (later Cardinal Manning), Archbishop of Westminster. This work is the first volume of Abbot Guéranger’s monumental 15-volume series, The Liturgical Year.
  • The ebook may be read online on this page and available for email subscription through this page of St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church. It may also be read online on this page of Sensus Fidelium, with an incomplete text online on this page of the The Liturgia Latina Project. It is also available at Google Books, and in pdf, mobi, epub, and other formats, at Internet Archive, with a second copy at Internet Archive.
  • The audio of some portions of the work are provided on the following videos on Youtube: “Dom Prosper Gueranger: The History and Mystery of Advent” and “Dom Prosper Gueranger: The Practice of Advent”.
  • The work was republished with the Jubilee Year 2000 Limited Edition of the 15-volume The Liturgical Year (Fitzwilliam, NH: Loreto Publications, 2000). The printed book may be purchased, singly or as part of the series, on this page of Loreto Publications, and at Angelus Press.

See also the videos in the playlists “About: Advent Season” and “Music: Advent and Christmas” on the Catholic Videos Project; and the following related texts and media:

Online ebook: “Tota Pulchra es Maria: Prayer Book”

See this online ebook:

• Tota Pulchra es Maria: Prayer Book (Singapore: Kolbe Publications, 2017). Available in pdf format at Militia Immaculatae.

On the Feast of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal. See also these related texts and media:

Worth-it ebook: The Hidden Treasure of Holy Mass, by Saint Leonard of Port Maurice

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• The Hidden Treasure: Holy Mass, by Saint Leonard of Port Maurice (Charlotte, NC: TAN Books, 2012). With Imprimatur. Complete and unabridged from the American edition (Fresno, CA: Academic Library Guild, 1952). The ebook and the printed book are available for worth-it prices on this page of TAN Books and on Amazon.

For the support of faithful Catholic publishers, we ask all readers of material means to purchase the book or ebook from TAN Books. (Note that the Project, which is offered ut in omnibus Deus honorificetur, receives no advertising revenue or commission from such purchases.) Nonetheless, for the benefit of those without ample temporal wealth, we post the following links to legally free or online copies of the ebook–with the request that, if they read it to their edification, they purchase the text from faithful Catholic publishers when they gain the means to do so:

Online text: “Mulieris Dignitatem, Ephesians 5, and Domestic Violence”, by Joseph Isanga

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• “Mulieris Dignitatem, Ephesians 5, and Domestic Violence: Grounding International Women’s Human Rights”, by Joseph Isanga (January 7, 2010), Ave Maria Law Review, Vol. 8, No. 2, 2010): pp. 405-429. Available in pdf format Social Science Research Network (SSRN).

On the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. For other texts and ebooks on various sobjects, you may access the List of Free eBooks (Arranged by Title), the List of Free eBooks (Grouped by Subject), the List of Worth-It Catholic Books & eBooks, and the main page of the Catholic eBooks Project.

Online text: “Philosophical and Theological Aspects of Evolution” (Scientia et Fides Vol. 8.2)

See this online journal:

• Scientia et Fides, Vol 8, No 2 (2020): Philosophical and Theological Aspects of Evolution. The individual articles are available in pdf format at the Table of Contents of Vol. 8, No. 2 at the Scientia et Fides Archives page.
• The articles in the issue include:
  • “Is Evolution a Chance Process?” by Denis Alexander;
  • “Catholicism and Evolution: Polygenism and Original Sin Part I” by James R. Hofmann;
  • “God, Evolution, and the Body of Adam” by Kenneth W. Kemp;
  • “Anthropogenesis and the Soul”, by Terrence Ehrman, C.S.C.;
  • “Could There Have Been Human Families Where Parents Came from Different Populations: Denisovans, Neanderthals or Sapiens?” by Marcin Edward Uhlik;
  • “Created Co-creator, a Theory of Human Becoming in an Era of Science and Technology by Ahenkora Siaw Kwakye;
  • “Machine or Melody? Joseph Ratzinger on Divine Causality in Evolutionary Creation” by Matthew J. Ramage;
  • “Scientific and Theological Responses for Evolution and Biological Complexity” by Andrii Kadykalo;
  • “Is Intelligent Design the Answer to Darwinism? Marcos Eberlin’s Foresight and the Limits of Irreducible Complexity as Scientific Paradigm” by Jason Michael Morgan.

See also the various Featured Essays in English y Español on the website Thomistic Evolution, as well as the following related texts and media:

Online text: “The Bishops of History and the Catholic Faith” by Bryan Cross

See this online text:

• “The Bishops of History and the Catholic Faith: A Reply to Brandon Addison” by Bryan Cross, June 8, 2014. May be read online and available in pdf format at Called to Communion. 168 pages with footnotes.
  • [N.B., This is a very thorough essay on the hierarchy of the primitive Church that refutes non-Catholic arguments rejecting her historical monoepiscopate in favor of theories of presbyterial governance.]

On the Feast of Pope St. Clement I in the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite. For other texts and ebooks, you may access the List of Free eBooks (Arranged by Title), the List of Free eBooks (Grouped by Subject), the List of Worth-It Catholic Books & eBooks, and the main page of the Catholic eBooks Project.

“It is within the power of all… to contemplate clearly the tradition of the apostles manifested throughout the whole world; and… to reckon up those who were by the apostles instituted bishops in the Churches, and… the succession of these men to our own times… whom also they were leaving behind as their successors, delivering up their own place of government to these men; which men, if they discharged their functions honestly, would be a great boon… but if they should fall away, the direst calamity.

“[W]e do put to confusion all those who… assemble in unauthorized meetings… by indicating that tradition derived from the apostles, of the very great, the very ancient, and universally known Church founded and organized at Rome by the two most glorious apostles, Peter and Paul; as also the faith preached to men, which comes down to our time by means of the successions of the bishops…

“The blessed apostles, then, having founded and built up the Church, committed into the hands of Linus the office of the episcopate… To him succeeded Anacletus… Clement… Evaristus. Alexander… Sixtus… Telephorus… Hyginus… Pius… Anicetus. Soter… Eleutherius does now, in the twelfth place from the apostles, hold the inheritance of the episcopate.

“In this order, and by this succession, the ecclesiastical tradition from the apostles, and the preaching of the truth, have come down to us. And this is most abundant proof that there is one and the same vivifying faith, which has been preserved in the Church from the apostles until now, and handed down in truth.” (Bishop St. Irenaeus of Lyon, Against Heresies, III, iii, ca. 180 AD)

Free audiobook & ebook: “The City of God”, by Saint Augustine

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• The City of God, by Aurelius Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, translated [from Saint Augustine’s De Civitate Dei contra Paganos] by the Rev. Marcus Dods, M.A., with Books IV, XVII, and XVIII translated by the Rev. George Wilson and Books V, VI, VII, and VIII translated by the Rev. J. J. Smith. (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 38, George Street, 1871). Part of The Works of Aurelius Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, A New Translation, edited by the Rev. Marcus Dods, M.A.
  • The text is available online in pdf, epub, kindle, and other formats. Volume I is available at Project Gutenberg and Internet Archive, with another edition (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1913) available at Internet Archive. Volume II is available at Project Gutenberg and Internet Archive.
  • The audiobook of the entire work, read by Darren L. Slider, is available at LibriVox, and is reproduced in 4 parts on the Youtube channel Classic Catholic Audiobooks: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4.
  • The text of the Dods translation was republished in Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series, Vol. 2, edited by Philip Schaff (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1887), which may be read, less footnotes, on this page of Catholic Culture.org. The said republished text, as revised and edited by Kevin Knight, may be read online at on this page of New Advent and is available in pdf format on this page of Documenta Catholica Omnia. It is also included in the app iPieta available on the Google Play Store and the Apple App Store.
    • Note: The Schaff edition as printed is also available for qualified readers (i.e., those with sufficient theological formation) at the Online Library of Liberty, among other online sources. However, the non-Catholic editors inserted unscholarly interpretative notes among the otherwise valuable footnotes, by which, for the sake of their diabolical Protestant heresies, they attempt to blunt the Catholic witness of Saint Augustine. For this reason general readers (i.e., those without sufficient theological formation) are advised to avoid the original Schaff edition as printed.

See also some texts on, or based on, St. Augustine’s classic work:

Livre gratuit: “Vie de la Tres-Sainte Vierge”, par Sainte Anne-Catherine Emmerich

Voir ce e-livre gratuit:

• Vie de la Tres-Sainte Vierge, par Soeur [Sainte] Anne-Catherine Emmerich, recueillies par Clemens Brentano (Paris, Tournai: H. Casterman, 1860). Disponible sur Internet Archive.

Pour la fête de la Présentation de la Vierge Marie au Temple. Pour plus de livres gratuits, vous pouvez accéder à la liste des eBooks gratuits (par titres) et la liste des eBooks gratuits (regroupées par sujet).

Worth-it ebook: “A Catholic Vision of Male Spirituality”, by Deacon Harold Burke-Sivers

See this worth-it ebook and book:

• Behold the Man: A Catholic Vision of Male Spirituality, by Deacon Harold Burke-Sivers (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2015). The ebook (epub) and printed book may be purchased on this page of Ignatius Press and at Amazon. The printed book may be purchased at on this page of the EWTN Religious Catalogue.  

See also the various talks of Deacon Burke-Sivers on Youtube; and these related texts and media: