Acutis library
The Library
Acutis library

Getting Started

Start here. These pages explain what the library is for and suggest a first path through it, whether you have never been inside a church or have been away for years.

  1. What This Library Is A quiet reading room for the Catholic faith: what it offers, what it cannot replace, and how to find your way around it.
  2. If You Are New For anyone who is not Catholic, or knows little: a gentle first path through belief, Sunday Mass and prayer, and how adults become Catholic.
  3. If You Are Returning For anyone who has been away from the Church: you are welcome back, and the way home is simpler than you may fear.

Awaiting review The articles in this library are awaiting review by a priest. Until then, read them alongside the Catechism paragraphs they cite, and take questions to your parish.

Acutis library

A library for deepening the Catholic faith, named for St Carlo Acutis (1991–2006), who used the web to show people the Eucharist.

Scripture quotations are from the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, Catholic Edition.

Excerpts from the English translation of the Catechism of the Catholic Church for use in the United States of America copyright © 1994, United States Catholic Conference, Inc.–Libreria Editrice Vaticana. English translation of the Catechism of the Catholic Church: Modifications from the Editio Typica copyright © 1997, United States Catholic Conference, Inc.–Libreria Editrice Vaticana.

Excerpts from the English translation of The Roman Missal © 2010, International Commission on English in the Liturgy Corporation. All rights reserved.

The illustrations in The Mass are those of the book it is set from, Rahasia Indah Dibalik Misa.

Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church © 2005 Libreria Editrice Vaticana. Kompendium Katekismus Gereja Katolik © 2009 Konferensi Waligereja Indonesia and Penerbit Kanisius, translated by Harry Susanto, SJ.

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