my name is Brother Johnny. My job in the order »Brothers of Mercy of Our Lady of Perpetual Help« is the maintanance and administration of the Web-Site. I will accompany you through the Web-Site and help you if you have any questions. But I am also pleased if you have any suggestions: Just write to me! I would like to introduce our order, tell you something about navigating on the following pages and the selection of the web-browser. But first of all I would like to introduce our order: We are a ordered community of Catholic religious which lives according to the Rule of St. Augustine. In addition, we have our own rules by which we orient our communal life. Our form of life, also called Rule, gives us help and direction for our lives. It contains valuable and binding advice for each Brother of Mercy. In 1850, on 21 June, our order was founded. The poverty and great social needs of this time were the main factors for the founding of the order. We call ourselves »brothers«, because Christ has called us to be a community of brothers. »Brothers of Mercy«, because of the works of mercy which we perform for suffering people. »Brothers of Mercy of Our Lady of Perpetual Help« because devotion to Mary was the expressed desire and will our founder Peter Friedhofen. He was born on 25 February 1819 in Weitersburg near Koblenz/Germany. His home gave him a solid religious formation: especially his devotion to Mary has its roots here. But you will find all these information in our web-Site. As to navigating in our web-site we hope it is not too difficult for you. At the top - on the left side - you find the sign of our order. If you click there you came back to the homepage. If you are using a JAVA-enabled browser, you have allready noticed that an arrow appears, which tells you »Back to the homepage«. And now you notice that you already missing something without a JAVA-enabled browser . You can even see more with such a browser. You can have a look on our order at any hour, you can accompany three brothers in their daily work and much more. You can download a JAVA-enabled browser at Netscape and Microsoft for free. If you would like to see the videos of our order you also have to download the VDO-Video-Player. You will find it on this web-site, with all information for installing and using. Well, there's something I have forgotten .... hmmmmm ... yes, it's really worth turning up your music-speaker, if you have a multimedia-computer. Here and there we prepared the pages with background-musik. I think that' it. If I have something forgotten I will catch it up on your next visit - for sure. But now I hope you enjoy yourself on our web-site. See you on some pages. Bye Bye! Yours Brother Johnny