Worship Meeting Agenda (Editor’S Note: Ese Agenda Items Provide a Listing of Possible Topics • Distribute the Article “E Altar of Repose,” from This Issue

Worship Meeting Agenda (Editor’s note: ese agenda items provide a listing of possible topics • Distribute the article “e Altar of Repose,” from this issue. to consider at your next parish liturgy committee meeting. Select the Determine with the music director, pastor, and sta whether topics that will guide your planning for the liturgical season ahead.) the time of adoration on Holy ursday can be extended. Plan to catechize the parish early. PRAYING TOGETHER • Evaluate whether silences are missing from Mass and need to • Pray three Collects from the Proper of Saints and then spend be restored. Review “e Role of Silence in Lenten Liturgies” three minutes of mystagogical re ection on one of the Collects. (Pastoral Liturgy® vol. 38, no. 6), www.pastoralliturgy.org, and When prayer ends, ask, “What can this committee do to help make a new beginning during Lent. Remember to update the en esh the Collect at Sunday Mass?” parish on observing the silences, noting that they are not done “as penance.” Cite the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy (CSL), • Ask a member to present the section, “Our Experience of 30, and catechize the parish toward renewal. Ritual Time,” from the article, “Come To e Feast,” in this issue of Pastoral Liturgy®. DEVELOPING SEASONAL PREPARATIONS • As you stand around the Paschal candle, share a prayerful recitation of both the Nicene and the Apostles’ Creeds. • Provide a copy of the notes detailing preparation for Lent 2014 for each person on the committee. Use these as a template for EVALUATING CHRISTMAS PAST preparing the Lenten season. • Discuss date and time(s) for the parish Penance Service. • Encourage group wisdom on the Christmas season. Spend ten Consider planning two celebrations of this sacrament minutes listing Commendations and Recommendations for communally, so that people may attend at a convenient time. 2015. Did parishioners have an awareness of the season, or did Involve youth and young adults in creating gi baskets of joy diminish aer December 25? “prayer and promise” for priests who may assist your parish • Assign a member to develop a budget for replacement and during these services. Prepare lunch or dinner for the priests. refurbishing art and environment that is worn or possibly not • Select ve bulletin inserts from www.pastoralliturgy.org for worthy. Have suggestions ready for the early summer budget. spiritual renewal and to catechize on the season. • Consider a shrine for the Nativity scene for next Christmas. • Check the worship space for repairs and recruit helping hands Ask two members to research and brainstorm the topic and to clean for the Easter season. Encourage the environment team present their ndings in writing at the next meeting. Remember toward “noble simplicity” during Lent. that a shrine would be a devotional area, accessible to children as well as to those who are disabled in the parish. MOVING FORWARD • Review the downloadable article “O Antiphons,” by Darren • Discuss the practice of intercultural hospitality at the parish, Henson, archived at www.pastoralliturgy.org (volume 38, no. 5). especially in the music ministry, art and environment, and At the next meeting, decide on a date for an Advent morning or devotional life. Consider if those carrying out liturgical roles, evening of O Antiphons and/or lessons and carols in 2015. for example, are culturally representative of the parish. DETERMINING PRIORITIES CLOSING PRAYER • Plan for this Ash Wednesday to be a primary evangelizing time for the parish: in well-celebrated Masses, environment, • Turning to the prayers in “anksgiving aer Mass” in e proclamation of the Word, music, and hospitality. Train Roman Missal, select one of the following: recite with care the additional hospitality ministers for Ash Wednesday. Emphasize Prayer to the Most Holy Redeemer; pray the Universal Prayer the parish website and contact us information in printed attributed to Pope Clement XI, alternating men and women for materials. Determine the feasibility of a meal of soup and bread each paragraph; provide the music for “O Sanctissima” and sing aer the liturgy. Invite a parish group to make soup and as a closing hymn aer Prayers to the Blessed Virgin Mary. another to bring loaves of bread and rolls. PATRICIA J. HUGHES, DMIN, is the director of the Of ce of Worship for • Prior to Ash Wednesday, arrange for the most welcoming the Diocese of Dallas. signage possible at the parish entry. • Nominate a small group of parishioners to plan Lenten At www.PastoralLiturgy.org devotions with the parish musician(s). Schedule devotions at Find and share this article with parish sta and the liturgy times that meet the needs of parishioners. Consider that some committee at the following URL: http://www.pastoralliturgy. do not want to drive at night, and others have no child care. org/resources/PSLV046I01WorshipMeetingAgenda.pdf.

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