This book is the essential pastoral resource to help you prepare the liturgy each day of the liturgical year! If you are a priest or deacon, liturgist, music director, worship team member, religious educator, or simply interested in more information about Catholic liturgy, this publication will be an invaluable tool. Features include:
- Reflections on the Lectionary texts for Sunday Year A and Weekday Year I
- Notes on preparing the Mass, receiving the sacraments, and celebrating the Liturgy of the Hours
- Commentary about the third edition of The Roman Missal
- Ideas to enhance the choice of music and the liturgical environment and ways to bring the liturgy into your home
- Features on liturgical ministry, devotions and sacramentals, and blessings
- Helpful tips for homilies, catechesis, liturgy preparation, and other ideas for parishes and families
- Pastoral ideas for leading and preparing Children’s Liturgy of the Word
- Original Mass texts for the Prayer of the Faithful, dismissals for RCIA and Children’s Liturgy of the Word
- Introduction to Mass
- Reflections for liturgists, pastoral staffs, and liturgical ministers on Pope Francis’ apostolic exhortation, Evangelii Gaudium
