The Paulist Liturgy Planning Guide

A compact, easy-to-use, and comprehensive resource for all ministries involved in Sunday planning. Contains information and tips for musicians, lectors, Eucharistic ministers, liturgical planning committees, homilists, and celebrants--all in one volume.

This spiral-bound desk calendar contains lectionary readings and a calendar for celebrating the Eucharist. Features included are a guide for praying the Liturgy of the Hours, a "Bible Enrichment" suggestion and a mention of well-known people on the anniversary of their deaths.

The year of the COVID pandemic was a time like no other in modern history. A historical pandemic, a racial reckoning, a tense and bitterly divided political election, an insurrection at the capital, and the Texas record freeze created a year that will be long remembered. Preachers were charged with making some sense of what was happening and at the same time giving hope that the community would make it through this time together. Through a year of homilies based on the Catholic readings of Sundays and Feast days, Father David Garcia connects the stories of this historic year to the light of Scripture. The homilies weave human experiences with Hispanic culture and traditions as well as moral lessons and Catholic spirituality. Pandemic Preaching helps inspire all who have been through this difficult time with powerful stories and sound theological reflection. At the same time these writings challenge us to learn the lessons of this unique and difficult year for ourselves.

A complete introduction to the Bible aimed at high school and college students, as well as Bible study groups.

Liturgy and Music: Lifetime Learning is not only for pastoral music majors but also for professional pastoral musicians, pastors, and liturgical practitioners. This volume should help those involved with liturgy - especially its music - gain a basic knowledge of liturgy / worship and an introduction to the scope and role of liturgical music and musicians in various Christian denominations.

One of the most influential works in the debate over the concept and definitions of liturgical theology, Context and Text by Monsignor Kevin W. Irwin is now available in a completely rewritten, new edition. In light of the historical, theological, and pastoral mandates of the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, Context and Text is both a proposal for and an example of an investigation of the Church's liturgical praxis from a liturgical-theological perspective. This second edition, which includes an expanded introduction, covers: · new liturgical and ecclesial contexts resulting from newly promulgated liturgies · further research in methodfor liturgical studies · consideration for changes in the cultural contexts in which people celebrate the liturgy. Besides brand-new chapters on time and sacramentality, and additions to the chapter on the arts, this edition also considers the “ongoing ‘texts and contexts’ of the liturgy as always a new event in the life and ongoing discussion of liturgical theology within Christianity.

Catholic Marriage: A Pastoral and Liturgical Commentary is a collection of essays by scholars and practitioners on the rites, spirituality, history, theology, and pastoral practice surrounding the Sacrament of Matrimony in the Roman Catholic Church. Those who minister to engaged couples and teach the sacrament will appreciate the accessible approach to the meaning of Christian marriage and how that is and has been expressed in the rites of the Church and cultural customs.

"Designed to aid ministers and planners in acquiring a basic understanding of the structure and meaning of the Order of Mass."--Foreword. Includes bibliographical references.

The liturgy doesn' t have to be a spectator event. Learn how to bridge the gap between religious education

NOW AVAILABLE Awareness and acceptance of our mortality as experienced in aging, illness, and the death of others can bring a clarity and richness to the limited, precious moments of life, and helps us foster a special care for relationships and priorities in the time we are given.

"A how-to book for teaching Scripture that is paced with hundreds of exciting classroom ideas. It gets children "doing". From dramatization to creating scriptual art, from playing Bible games to motions in response to Scripture, from choral readings to scriptural prayer, all the activities described here are easy to carry out, involve the whole child, and nurture creativity as well as love for Scripture."--Back cover.

The author provides an in-depth look at eight diverse models of excellence, a directory of hundreds of great parishes throughout the country, and listings of those traits common to excellence that can be reproduced in parishes everywhere.

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