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Practical Considerations To: Confirmation Planners From: Office of Liturgy Subject: Confirmation Mass with Archbishop The visit of the Archbishop for the celebration of Confirmation is a noteworthy event that deserves attention to detail. To assist you in planning the upcoming Confirmation Liturgy, we have made a list of elements which help enhance the parish community’s experience of this great gift of the Holy Spirit. This letter comprises practical and liturgical preference of the Archbishop and is presented to you to help promote a reverent and joyful celebration. For pastors, if liturgies are in the evening, the Archbishop would like to have a light meal with the pastor and parish priests either before the liturgy or after. These arrangements can be made through the Archbishop’s Priest Secretary. Practical Considerations: The preferred seating arrangement for Confirmation is to have the Confirmandi sitting on one side of the aisle with the sponsors on the other side of the aisle. This lends itself for a smooth flow during the administration of the Sacrament. Reserve a parking space for the Master of Ceremonies who will generally be bringing the Archbishop to your parish and communicate its location to the Liturgy Office. Please note that the Archbishop is happy to meet with the Confirmandi about 20 minutes prior to the Confirmation Mass. Plan to have the Confirmandi gathered in a room with a microphone, preferably not podium mounted, so that the main celebrant may move around the room and interact with the Confirmandi. The Confirmandi are to be in proper Sunday dress. Special graduation-style robes may be used. Stoles should never be worn. “The distinction between the universal priesthood of all the baptized and the ministerial priesthood of the ordained is blurred when the distinctive garb of ordained ministers is used at Confirmation. Therefore, the use of a stole for the Confirmandi should be avoided” (BCL Newsletter, Vol. XX, December, 1984). The color of the liturgical vestments will be determined by the Mass being celebrated: o If the confirmation is being celebrated on a Sunday in Ordinary Time, the vestment color is green. o During weekdays and Sundays of Lent and Advent, purple vestments are used. o On Sundays and on weekdays of the season of Easter and Christmas, the vestment color is white. o Red vestments are worn on Pentecost, Palm Sunday, Obligatory Memorials of Martyrs, Feasts of the Apostles and Evangelists, and when the Ritual Mass of Confirmation is used on ferial weekdays of Ordinary Time. Music should reflect the liturgical season or the Ritual Mass when permitted. Archbishop Aquila is available for individual photos at the reception. The Archbishop will also be available for group photos only if there is a designated photographer. Archbishop Aquila’s Executive Assistant is Sharon Doerflinger 303-715-3129 To schedule the Archbishop for a meal with the pastor call Father Scott Bailey 303-715-3210 Questions on the Liturgy? John Miller 303-715-3162 1 Liturgical Considerations: Have your servers arrive 30 minutes prior to the start of the liturgy so the Master of Ceremonies (MC) may practice elements that are unique to serving Mass with the main celebrant. While the planning sheet asks whether incense will be used, its use is optional. However, if you do use incense, it must be used at the entrance, the Gospel and offertory. If your servers do not regularly use the thurible and are not comfortable with it, it is better not to use it for this liturgy. The liturgical procession for the Mass includes, thurible, cross, candles, deacon(s), priest(s) and main celebrant. If you desire that the Confirmandi process into the church, their place is before (ahead of) the liturgical procession. Since the Confirmation Mass has a renewal of Baptismal Promises, the Sprinkling Rite is not to be used so as to avoid a duplication of these elements of the Mass. The Readings of the day are always to be used. This includes the Responsorial Psalm. The text, including the response and verses, should conform to the Lectionary. On Ferial Days, the 2nd Reading may be taken from the Reading of the Confirmation Ritual Mass. Please call the Office of Liturgy to discuss this option before you send in the planning sheets. The Responsorial Psalm is the sung proclamation of the Word. As part of the Liturgy of the Word … “The psalmist…sings the verses of the psalm from the ambo or other suitable place” (GIRM, 61). If the choir will be singing the verses, the cantor is present at the ambo to lead the response of the assembly. Soft volume instrumental music during the anointing is permissible as long as the congregation can still hear the dialogue between Archbishop Aquila and the confirmandi. The Gloria is permitted to be sung only when called for in the Ordo or when Confirmation is celebrated in a Ritual Mass. Use the Universal Prayer from the Rite of Confirmation. If there is not a deacon to proclaim the intercessions, have one person read all of them. Have a cut lemon in half so that Archbishop can put his thumb in it, and some bread ready (bread should not be cut into small pieces) for the Archbishop to remove the Sacred Chrism from his hands. Communion should be offered under both kinds. Plan a sufficient amount of the Body and Blood of Christ. Abundance is a gracious sign of hospitality. Always try to avoid offering hosts reserved in the tabernacle (GIRM, 85). If the Confirmandi are to process out of the church as a group, they will process out after the liturgical procession. The Archbishop requests a missal stand for use at the altar. The center corporal should only have the celebrant’s chalice and paten/ciborium, and all other vessels should be on corporals on the left or right. This is the Archbishop’s preference and not required for other liturgical celebrations in your parish. Deacons receive the Body and Blood of Christ on the Archbishop’s right at the altar. Please move into place when Archbishop Aquila communicates from the chalice. The Office of Liturgy and the Master of Ceremonies assigned to your liturgy are more than willing to assist you if you have any questions or concerns. (Revised August 29, 2014) 2 .
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