Free Catholic Prayer Tools
13 pages that do a job rather than describe one: the Rosary and the Chaplet bead by bead, the Stations in order, an examination of conscience for confession, prayers for the dead, and a liturgical calendar you can paste into a parish site. No sign-up, no account, and most of them print as a plain sheet.
Upcoming · Sep 8
Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
See the full liturgical calendar — every feast this year, and an embed for your parish site.
Devotions, in full
The whole prayer or devotion on one page, in the order it is actually prayed. Each prints as a plain sheet.
- How to pray the RosaryA bead diagram, every prayer in full, and today’s mysteries.Prints
- Chaplet of Divine MercyOn ordinary rosary beads, in about eight minutes.Prints
- Stations of the CrossAll fourteen in order, with the prayers at each.Prints
- The MemorareThe full prayer, and the Flying Novena: nine in a row, plus one.Prints
- Litany of HumilityThe full prayer by Cardinal Merry del Val, with each response.Prints
- The Advent wreathWhich candle, which Sunday, and why the third one is rose.Prints
Before a sacrament, and after a death
The two things people most often come looking for at short notice.
- What to give up for LentTwelve with a reason and a cost, and the other two thirds of Lent.Prints
- How to become CatholicThe steps, how long it takes, and whether your past disqualifies you.Prints
- How to go to confessionThe words in order, how long it takes, and what if it has been years.Prints
- Examination of conscienceFor confession, by the Ten Commandments.Prints
- Prayers for the deadEternal Rest and others, for a graveside or an anniversary.Prints
Dates, worked out
Computed from the paschal moon rather than typed into a table, so they are still right in ten years. Both can be embedded on a parish site.
For parishes and catechists
Everything here can be printed and handed out, and the two date tools can be embedded in a parish website with one line of HTML. There is no key to request, no account to make, and nothing to keep updated: the movable dates are worked out from the paschal moon every time the page loads, so an embed placed this year is still right in ten.
A link back is appreciated rather than required. Liturgical dates are facts and the Church’s prayers are not ours to charge for.
And if it is the why rather than the how
These pages tell you what to do. Explained covers what things are: what holy water actually is and is not, the nine choirs of angels, the gifts and fruits of the Holy Spirit. And a novena is nine days rather than one sitting — all of them are here, with the feast day each one ends on.