Table of Contents

• Navigation—Getting Around on this Web Site
• Image Links & the Common Navigation Menu Buttons
• Text Links
• Bulletin Board Post-It Notes
• General Post-It Notes
• On Line References
• Word Look Up
• Books of the Bible
• Documents, Organizations, etc,
• Reference Notes (on this site)
• Abbreviations
• Books of the Bible – table formats available: PDF   DOC
• Documents, Organizations, etc, – table formats available: PDF   DOC
• Using PDF & DOC Data Files

The content of this web site is organized within similar groups. Because there are many content items with direct and indirect relationships, links among the items are established to move from one to another. These links take the form of images, color-underlined text and a group of buttons as a Common Button Menu.

Links can take you to a completely different web site, another document page on this web site or another document location on the same page.

Often it is convenient to use browser utilites like the vertical scroll bar or the keyboard arrow and pagination keys to move up or down within a document. At times, it is more convienent to use the BACK control of the browser vs. moving vertically within a document to find a link.

When moving your mouse over some images, the mouse pointer will change its displayed form to identify the image is a link. This "mouse-over" method of linking is used on the Common Button Menu and selected images throughout the web site.

Embedded Image & Icon Navigation

Graphic images can contain links. There are two embedded icon links within the parish title image on the Home Page. These two links take you to external web sites.

1. This link will take you to the Vatican—The Holy See web site.
2. This link will take you to the web site of Diocese of Scranton.

Images can also be embedded within text paragraphs. On the Catechesis document page, there is an image link, , within the text. This link takes you to a different document page on this web site where you will find a document about the sacraments.

There are also images posted alongside the left or right of text paragraphs throughout the site that link to other locations. When the mouse pointer moves over an image associated with a link, the pointer changes shape. This example of an graphic icon navigation link to the Eternal Word Television Network web site can be found to the right of this paragraph and to the left side of a paragraph on the Catholic www Links document page.

Common Navigation Menu Buttons

This Common Navigation Menu appears on major pages of this web site. If it does not display on a document, use the browser BACK control to move onto a document page with the Common Navigation Menu display.

The traditional way to link within hypertext documents, such as this web site, is to use colored, underlind text. On this site dark blue is used for both text links and most paragraph headings. Text links are color and underlined. Blue text, including headings with no underline are not links. Text that is not colored is not a link, even if underlined. Example text links are New American Bible and Catechism of the Catholic Church, which you will encounter at various locations throughout this web site.

The post-it note at left will appear left of the navigation buttons on the Home Page to call attention to news updates available on the Bulletin Board. Scheduled events and important, current news is typical of matters you can expect to see posted on the Bulletin Board.

Some times the Next and Previous navigation buttons shown at right will appear near the top left of the display providing links between each Bulletin Board.

Use the Navigation Menu Buttons at left on the display to return to other documents.

Post-it notes can appear on numerous documents throughout the web site. On the Bulletin Board, they are in a fixed position on the cork surface. On other document pages, their location can block a portion of the document from view. In case you want to view the document content behind any post-it note, resize you browser window horizontally until the content behind the note is in view.

A post-it note may or may not have an associated link to another document. The link feature is dependent upon the context of the note information.

Online Reference Dictionary, Encyclopedia, Literature, etc. Word: Look in: Dictionary & thesaurus Medical Dictionary Legal Dictionary Financial Dictionary Acronyms Idioms Encyclopedia Wikipedia Periodicals Literature Other languages: Spanish Dictionary German Dictionary French Dictionary Italian Dictionary Chinese Dictionary Portuguese Dictionary Dutch Dictionary Norwegian Dictionary Greek Dictionary Russian Dictionary by: WordStarts with Ends withMentions

Look Up Instructions Enter the word you want to look up into the box just right of the label "Word:" Dictionary & thesaurus is the default look up reference. If you want a different reference, click on the to select other reference documents. You can also select languages other than English. Word (the default), Starts with, Ends with or Mentions can be used to further qualify the look up criteria. Use the pick list box just right of the "by:" label. Click on the button to perform the look up.

Throughout this site you will find some prose with a reference to external documents. The reference is the smaller (75% of normal size) text immediately following the prose. It typically takes the form of a document name and location within the named document.

The abbreviation cf. is used for the word confer. It means to compare or consult. Thus cf. is often used by authors in the text of their article or book to refer to other material which may provide auxiliary information or arguments to the understanding of theirs.

Paragraphs quoted from a particular Church document begin with a number on the left margin which is the reference of the paragraph within the document. Most quoted text on this web site is from the Catechism of the Catholic Church. Numbered paragraphs from other sources will be identifed by the document name and may include section symbol marker "§" preceeding the paragraph number.

The following is paragraph fourteen from Sacrosanctum concilium and has an embedded reference to the New Testament, First Letter of Peter, chapter two, verse nine and another reference to 1 Peter, chapter two, verses four through five.

Some portions of content on this web site are quoted from various sources; consequently, abbreviations used throughout this web site may vary. For example, in the Catechism of the Catholic Church the book of Micah of the Old Testament is abbreviated "Mic" and the book of Zechariah is abbreviated "Zech". In the Saint Joseph Edition of The New American Bible, Micah is abbreviated "Mi" and Zachariah is "Zec".

Books of the Bible

The following abbreviations are used for the books of the Bible as defined within the Saint Joseph Edition of The New American Bible:

Documents on this site can be viewed using Adobe PDF document file format or Microsoft Word document DOC file format. If you need a program utility to view and download a document use this link.

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