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Part of the Mass |
Recommended Introduction Date |
Gloria |
September 4th and 5th (Labor Day Weekend) |
September 24th and 25th |
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Sanctus |
October 15th and 16th |
Memorial Acclamation and the Great Amen |
November 5th and 6th |
Agnus Dei |
November 26th and 27th |
The Roman Missal in Spanish
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops is currently in the process of developing a new Spanish language missal for the United States of America. This work is not yet complete, and so no changes are expected to the celebration of the mass in Spanish when the new English translation goes into effect.
Currently, any approved Spanish-language missal may be used within the United States and the Archdiocese of Atlanta. Archbishop Gregory recommends the use of the Spanish language missal prepared by the Mexican episcopal conference. Once the official Spanish language missal for the United States of America has been approved and enters into effect, it will be the only Spanish language missal permitted for use in the United States. All other versions will no longer be permitted.
While various changes in language will be introduced in other Spanish speaking episcopal conferences, celebrants should not anticipate those changes by altering the printed text in the missal on their own initiative. Rather, the printed text of an approved Spanish-language missal should be used as it is written.
The following list includes the annual lineup of workshops from your Office for Divine Worship. These workshops are designed to help parish leaders, both clergy and lay, prepare for their roles in liturgical ministry. They provide pastoral insight as well as opportunities for networking and the presentation of local and universal norms. I would like to ask you to share the enclosed fliers with the appropriate members of your parish leadership so that they may make use of these opportunities.
The programs and workshops that we are offering include the following:
Treasures of the Triduum (January 21) is a workshop for DREs and RCIA / OCI Coordinators and Team Members. The workshop will explore the spirituality of Holy Week. The day will be facilitated by Fr. Douglas Martis, director of The Liturgical Institute at the University of St. Mary of the Lake, and by Mr. Christopher Carstens, director of the Office of Sacred Worship for the Diocese or LaCrosse.
Cantar es Vivir (March 3) is a workshop for Hispanics within the Music Ministry. This year’s workshop will feature Lourdes Montgomery and will focus on music for the Triduum.
Formation Workshop for Coordinators of Ministers to the Homebound(September 17 – English or October 1-Spanish) will help coordinators of ministers to the homebound learn the skills needed for their many-faceted ministry.
Forming Better Altar Servers (November 12 – English or October 29 – Spanish) will offer suggestions on how any parish might improve the way it coordinates its Altar Server Program, and how it trains its Altar Servers in general.
Proclaim the Word! (April 21 – English or March 17 – Spanish) This workshop will help leadership teams for the ministry of the word learn the skills that they need to more effectively train and manage their lector communities.
Formation Workshops for Coordinators of Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion (May 5 – English or May 12 – Spanish) provide the certification required to train Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion. The workshop focuses on the theology behind their service and presents the current Archdiocesan Manual.
The Southeastern Liturgical Music Symposium (August 24-25) will bring some of the best national level speakers on the liturgy to Atlanta to focus on the impact of the translation of the 3rd Edition of the Roman Missal on liturgical music.
New Compiled Norms for the Archdiocese of Atlanta
The Archdiocesan Liturgical Commission has recently authorized a new edition of the compiled liturgical norms for the Archdiocese of Atlanta. This document makes all of the liturgical norms for the Archdiocese accessible. It does not replace any prior norms, nor does it add any new norms. The norms can be accessed on-line at: www.archatl.com/offices/odw/norms/norms.html
Liturgical Celebrations in Honor of Blessed John Paul II
In conjunction with the beatification of Blessed John Paul II on May 1st, the Congregation for Divine Worship and Discipline of the Sacraments issued a decree permitting diocesan bishops to authorize a special mass in honor of the new Blessed. In response to the devotion to Blessed John Paul II in the Archdiocese of Atlanta, Archbishop Gregory has designated Friday, October 21st, 2011, as a day in honor of Blessed John Paul II.
As October 21st is the vigil of the liturgical memorial of Blessed John Paul II, parishes may wish to celebrate an evening mass of thanksgiving on that day. The memorial of Blessed John Paul II is not, however, observed in the dioceses of the United States of America.
The following liturgical texts may be used in the celebration of the mass:
Collect:
O God, who are rich in mercy
and who willed that the Blessed John Paul the Second
should preside as Pope over your universal Church,
grant, we pray, that instructed by his teaching,
we may open our hearts to the saving grace of Christ,
the sole Redeemer of mankind.
Who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, for ever and ever.
Readings: (From the Common of Pastors)
1st Reading: Isaiah 52:7-10 (no. 719.5)
Responsorial Psalm: Ps. 96:1-2a, 2b-3, 7-8a, 10 (no. 721.5)
Alleluia Verse: John 10:14 (no. 723.5)
Gospel: John 21:15-17 (no. 724.12)
For more information, please contact the Office for Divine Worship.
Calendar Notes
The liturgical calendar for the Archdiocese of Atlanta is available on-line at: www.archatl.com/offices/odw/cal/litcal.html. Some highlights of upcoming feasts include:
- All Saints Day falls on Tuesday, November 1st, and is a Holy Day of Obligation.
- 1st Sunday of Adventfalls on Sunday, November 27, 2011. This is the day when the new translation of the Roman Missal goes into effect.
- The patronal feast of the United States of America, the feast of the Immaculate Conception, falls on Thursday, December 8, 2011, and is a Holy Day of Obligation.
Pope's Letter to the Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music
(Translation courtesy of Zenit)
To the Venerable Brother
Cardinal Zenon Grocholewski
Grand Chancellor of the Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music
One hundred years have gone by since my holy predecessor Pius X founded the Higher School of Sacred Music, elevated to Pontifical Institute after twenty years by Pope Pius XI. This important event is a reason for joy for all the cultivators of sacred music, but more in general for all those, beginning of course with the pastors of the Church, who give weight to the importance of the Liturgy, of which sacred singing is an integral part (cf. Ecumenical Vatican Council II, Constitution "Sacrosanctum Concilium," No. 112). Hence, I am particularly happy to express my sincere congratulations for this event and to formulate to you, venerable brother, to the director and to all the community of the Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music my cordial wishes.
This institute, which depends on the Holy See, forms part of the singular academic reality constituted by the Pontifical Roman Universities. In a special way, it is linked to the St. Anselm Athenaeum and to the Benedictine Order, as attested also by the fact that its didactic headquarters are located, since 1983, in the abbey of St. Jerome in Urbe, whereas the legal and historical headquarters continue to be in Sant'Apollinare. On celebrating the centenary, my thought goes to all those -- and only the Lord knows them perfectly -- who cooperated in some way in the activity of the Higher School, before and after the Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music: from the Superiors who succeeded one another in its direction, to the illustrious professors, to the generations of pupils. Added to the thanksgiving to God for the many gifts granted is the recognition of all that each one has given the Church, cultivating musical art at the service of divine worship.
To understand clearly the identity and mission of the Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music, it is opportune to recall that Pope Saint Pius X founded it eight years after having issued the Motu Proprio Tra le sollecitudini, of Nov. 22, 1903, with which he carried out a profound reform in the field of sacred music, returning to the great tradition of the Church against the influences exercised by profane music, especially operatic. This masterful intervention needed, for its realization in the universal Church, a center of study and teaching that could transmit, in a faithful and qualified way, the lines indicated by the Supreme Pontiff, in keeping with the authentic and glorious tradition that goes back to St. Gregory the Great. Hence, in the span of the last one hundred years, this institution has assimilated, elaborated and transmitted the doctrinal and pastoral contents of the Pontifical Documents, as well as of Vatican Council II, concerning sacred music, so that they can illumine and guide the work of composers, of chapel maestros, of liturgists, of musicians and of all formators in this field.
In this connection, I wish to highlight a fundamental aspect that is particularly dear to me: how the essential continuity of the teaching on sacred music in the Liturgy has been perceived since St. Pius X up til today, despite the natural evolution. In particular, the Pontiffs Paul VI and John Paul II, in the light of the conciliar constitution "Sacrosanctum Concilium," wished to reaffirm the end of sacred music, namely, "the glory of God and the sanctification of the faithful" (No. 112), and the fundamental criteria of Tradition, which I limit myself to recall: the sense of prayer, of dignity and of beauty; the full adherence to the texts and to the liturgical gestures; the involvement of the assembly and, finally, the legitimate adaptation to the local culture, preserving at the same time the universality of the language; the primacy of Gregorian chant, as supreme model of sacred music, and the wise appreciation of the other expressive forms which form part of the historical-liturgical patrimony of the Church, especially but not only, polyphony; the importance of the "schola cantorum," in particular in the cathedral churches. They are important criteria, which must be considered carefully also today.
At times, in fact, these elements, which are found in "Sacrosanctum Concilium," such as, in fact, the value of the great ecclesial patrimony of sacred music or the universality that is characteristic of Gregorian chant, were considered expressions of a conception that responded to a past to be overcome and neglected, because it limited the liberty and creativity of the individual and the communities. However, we must always ask ourselves again: Who is the authentic subject of the liturgy? The answer is simple: the Church. Not the individual or the group that celebrates the liturgy, it is first of all the action of God through the Church, which has her history, her rich tradition and her creativity.
The liturgy, and consequently sacred music, "lives from a correct and constant relation between healthy 'traditio' and legitimate 'progressio,'" keeping very present that these two concepts -- that the conciliar Fathers clearly underscore -- integrate mutually because "tradition is a living reality that, because of this, includes in itself the principle of development, of progress" (Address to the Pontifical Liturgical Institute, May 6, 2011).
All this, venerable Brother, forms, so to speak, the "daily bread" of the life and work of the Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music. On the basis of these solid and sure elements, to which are added an age-old experience, I encouraged you to carry on with renewed impetus and commitment your service in the professional formation of the students, so that they acquire a serious and profound competency in the different disciplines of sacred music. Thus, this Pontifical Institute will continue to offer a valid contribution for the formation, in this field, of the pastors and lay faithful in the different particular Churches, fostering also an adequate discernment of the quality of the musical compositions used in liturgical celebrations. For these important ends you can count on my constant solicitude, supported by a particular remembrance in prayer, which a entrust to the heavenly intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary and of Saint Cecilia, while wishing copious fruits from the centenary celebrations, I impart from my heart to you, to the director, to the professors, to the staff and to all the pupils of the Institute a special Apostolic Blessing.
In the Vatican, May 13, 2011
BENEDICTUS PP. XVI
Papal Message on Liturgy as Source of Catechesis
(Translation Courtesy of ZENIT)
To His Most Reverend Excellency
Monsignor Felice di Molfetta
Bishop of Cerignola-Ascoli Satirano
Most Reverend Excellency,
I am happy to transmit the Holy Father's cordial greeting to you and to the participants in the 62nd National Liturgical Week, which will be held from August 22-28 in Trieste. The theme of the meeting -- "God Educates His People: The Liturgy, Inexhaustible Source of Catechesis" -- comes in the context of the Pastoral Guidelines of the Church in Italy for the 2010-2020 decade, geared to addressing the present educational emergency, and it attempts to put "the primacy of God unequivocally in the light ... the first of all, God" (J. Ratzinger, Theology of the Liturgy, Opera Omnia, XI, p. 5), his absolute priority in the educational role of the liturgy.
The Church, especially when she celebrates the divine mysteries, recognizes and manifests herself as a reality that cannot be reduced to a solely earthly and organizational aspect. It must appear clearly in these mysteries that the beating heart of the community should be recognized beyond the narrow yet necessary limits of ritualism, because the liturgy is not what man does, but what God does with his admirable and gratuitous condescendence. This primacy of God in the liturgical action was highlighted by the Servant of God Paul VI at the closing of the second period of the Vatican Council, when he announced the proclamation of the Constitution Sacrosanctum Concilium: "In this event we observe that the correct order has been respected of the values and duties: thus we have recognized that the post of honor is reserved to God; that as first duty we are called to raise prayers to God; that the sacred Liturgy is the primary source of this divine exchange in which the life of God is communicated to us; it is the first school of our soul, it is the first gift that must be made by us to the Christian people." (Paul VI, Address for the Closing of the Second Period, December 4, 1963, AAS [1964], 34).
In addition to expressing the absolute priority of God, the liturgy manifests its being "God with us," since "being Christian is not the result of an ethical choice or a lofty idea, but the encounter with an event, a person, which gives life a new horizon and a decisive direction." (Benedict XVI, encyclical Deus Caritas Est, 1). In this connection, God is the great educator of his people, the loving, wise, tireless guide in an through the liturgy, the action of God in the today of the Church.
From this foundational aspect, the 62nd National Liturgical Week is called to reflect on the educational dimension of the liturgical action, in as much as it is a "permanent school of formation around the Risen Lord, educational and relative place in which the faith acquires form and is transmitted" (Italian Episcopal Conference, Educare alla Vita Buona del Vangelo, n. 390). For this purpose, it is necessary to reflect ever better on the relation between catechesis and liturgy, yet rejecting all undue instrumentalization of the liturgy with "catechetical" ends. In this regard, the living Patristic tradition of the Church teaches us that the liturgical celebration itself, without losing its specificity, always has an important catechetical dimension (cf. Sacrosanctum Concilium, 33). In fact, in as much as it is the "the primary and indispensable source from which the faithful are to derive the true Christian spirit" (ibid., 14), the liturgy can be called the permanent catechesis of the Church, the inexhaustible source of catechesis, precious catechesis in act (cf. Italian Episcopal Conference, Il Rinnovamento della catechesis, Feb. 7, 1970, 113). As an integrated experience of catechesis, celebration and life, it expresses in addition the maternal support of the Church, thus helping to develop the growth of the believer's Christian life and the maturation of his conscience.
The Holy Father Benedict XVI willingly assures his prayer so that the 62nd National Liturgical Week will be fruitful for the participants and for the Church that is in Italy. He hopes that this important conference, as well as the initiatives promoted by the Center of Liturgical Action, will be placed increasingly at the service of the genuine meaning of the liturgy, favoring a solid theological-pastoral formation in full consonance with the magisterium and the tradition of the Church. To this end, the Supreme Pontiff invokes upon all the participants the maternal protection of Mary Most Holy, and he imparts from his heart to Your Excellency, to the archbishop of Trieste, to the bishops and to the priests present, to the speakers and to all the congressmen a special Apostolic Blessing.
With fraternal greetings and good wishes, I take advantage of the circumstance to greet you.
Tarcisio Cardinal Bertone
Secretary of State of His Holiness
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