Pastoral Liturgy Formation and Resources for Lectionary-Based Worship Ordinary Time June 2018 – November 2018 Year B Vol 48, 3 Founding Editor – Russell Hardiman Editors – Angela McCarthy, Vincent Glynn Pastoral Liturgy A Publication of the School of Philosophy & Theology, The University of Notre Dame Australia. Pastoral Liturgy is published three times per year in January, June and October. Essays are refereed by members of the International Peer Review Committee according to their respective disciplines. Accredited as a Refereed Journal by the Department of Education, Science & Training Canberra, ACT Australia ISSN 1446-0661 International Peer Review Committee Very Revd Andrew McGowan Dean and President, Berkeley Divinity School, Yale Divinity School, 409 Prospect Street, New Haven CT 06511 USA Assoc Prof Gerard Moore School of Theology, Charles Sturt University, Uniting College Campus, 16 Mason Drive, North Parramatta NSW 2151 Rev Fr Eugene Trainer 83 Stearns Road, 2 Brookline, MA 02446 USA Rev Dr Tom Ryan SM Marist Community, 2 Mary Street, Hunters Hill, NSW Editorial Board Dr Angela McCarthy, Editor The University of Notre Dame Australia, Fremantle Campus, WA Fr Vincent Glynn, Editor The University of Notre Dame Australia, Fremantle Campus, WA Prof Peter Black The University of Notre Dame Australia, Fremantle Campus, WA Sr Clare Scieinski The University of Notre Dame Australia, Fremantle Campus, WA Founding Editor Rev Dr Russell Hardiman Editors Dr Angela McCarthy and Fr Vincent Glynn Assistant to the Editors Liz Roff – 08 9433 0138 Logo “The Mustard Seed” designed by Iris Rossen (architect) Contents 4-5 From the Editors 76-77 Musicians’ Appendix: Abbreviations and Explanations 74 Our Contributors Formation 6-7 Mercy in Ordinary Time 8-12 A Snapshot of the Doctors of the Church Book Review 13 Madonnas and Miracles. Reviewed by Angela McCarthy Resources for Lectionary Worship Year B, 2018 Table in Sundays and Feasts 14 Tenth Sunday in Ordinary Time 10 June 16 Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time 17 June 18 The Nativity of St John the Baptist 24 June 20 Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time 1 July 22 Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time 8 July 24 Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time 15 July 26 Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time 22 July 28 Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time 29 July 30 Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time 5 August 32 Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time 12 August 35 The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary 15 August 37 Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time 19 August 39 Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time 26 August 41 Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time 2 September 44 Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time 9 September 46 Twenty-Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time 16 September 48 Twenty-Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time 23 September 51 Twenty-Six Sunday in Ordinary Time 30 September 53 Twenty-Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time 7 October 55 Twenty-Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time 14 October 57 Twenty-Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time 21 October 59 Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time 28 October 61 Solemnity of All Saints 1 November 63 All Souls Day (The Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed) 2 November 66 Thirty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time 4 November 68 Thirty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time 11 November 70 Thirty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time 18 November 72 Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe 25 November Pastoral Liturgy Vol 48, 3 | June 2018 – November 2018 | Page 3 From the Editors Dr Angela McCarthy and Fr Vincent Glynn Editor: Fr Vincent Glynn Editor: Dr Angela McCarthy Once again we move into the Sundays of the Ordinary Time As this is being prepared for print I will be in Jerusalem in our liturgical year. I hope that your experience and journey for Easter/Passover. Once again it will be a real privilege as an individual, a parish or as a community member to celebrate such major feasts in the place where the through the penitential Season of Lent was good preparation events happened in that special time in history and to for the joyful feast of the resurrection of Christ I also hope find our spiritual expression through the liturgy of the the Lent/Easter edition of Pastoral Liturgy was a help to Triduum. This year Easter and Passover are within the you personally and communally in the preparation and same two week period so it will be a busy time but a celebration of Lent and Easter. While the Easter season may wonderful spiritual, academic and religious experience now seem to be behind us, it in fact never really is. Every for the students from Notre Dame Australia (Sydney and Sunday, including the Sundays in Ordinary time are always Perth) that I am taking with me. a celebration of the resurrection of Christ Let us keep the joy that Christ is truly risen in our hearts each week. Recently there was a new resource released which you might find beneficial. Fr Frank Moloney has begun a This year Pope Francis at his weekly audience has been series of audio divina as a way to experience the Sunday giving a series of catechetical talks on the Mass. Each gospel and it will eventually be a full resource of the week, beginning with opening rites of the Mass, he has Years A, B and C. Fr Frank is one of our most prominent explained in very simple and yet comprehensible way the parts of the Mass. He has explained the meaning of Scriptural theologians and the material is excellent and various ritual actions, such as the striking of the breast in it is also very accessible to everyone. Here is the link: the Penitential Rite, the meaning and history behind the https://www.salesians.org.au/info/audiodivina presentation of the gifts by the people, the importance This edition is the largest issue for the year because and power of the Eucharistic Prayer and the theological of being ordinary time and there are two articles for understanding and expression of the Eucharist as a formation that we hope you find interesting. Gerard memorial action. He has encouraged singing as a way to Moore, a regular contributor to the gospel reflections, pray and the need for a silence that leads to deep personal has a short piece on ‘Mercy in Ordinary Time’. Gerard and communitarian prayer. I would encourage all those has a great deal of interest and expertise in liturgical involved in and with liturgical formation, particularly in a history and has made a special study of Collects. The parish setting, to read these talks. They could be a great history of these prayers is enlightening because it opens resource for education about the celebration of the Mass. up for us the development of the theology expressed in It is hoped that these catechetical talks will eventually be the prayers. Nothing happens in a vacuum and so the published in a small booklet in English. English summaries history enlivens our understanding. of the talks are available on line and the original talks are available on the Vatican website. Professor Tracy Rowland is a member of our Theology staff and this is from the second lecture that she has In March this year Pope Francis also established a new Marian Memorial Feast to be celebrated in the General given to staff in Fremantle. Again, it is a historical Roman Calendar. The Memorial of the Blessed Virgin perspective and gives us a snapshot of thirty six saints Mary, Mother of the Church, will be included into the who have been named Doctors of the Church. This is an Roman calendar to be celebrated on the Monday following exceptional title and the list now includes some women, Pentecost Sunday. The decree instituting this new two of them recently included. memorial reflects on the history of Marian theology in the This year in the West there are two major religious Church’s liturgical tradition and the writings of the Church art events. The University of Notre Dame Australia is Fathers. This decree issued by the Congregation for Divine about to embark on a year with the St John’s Bible. Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments is also This is a remarkable work of art that began when available on the Vatican website. I am sure this memorial Queen Elizabeth’s calligrapher, Donald Jackson, and will be included in the new liturgical calendar for 2018/19. a Benedictine monk from Minnesota, Fr Eric Hollas, God’s continued blessings. had a conversation about producing the first hand scribed and hand illuminated bible in 500 years. http:// Fr Vincent Glynn www.saintjohnsbible.org/ Part of the mission of the Page 4 | Pastoral Liturgy Vol 48, 3 | June 2018 – November 2018 monks is to give to each generation something that is The Festival of Religious Art at Notre Dame and the a major contribution to religious culture and this bible Mandorla Art Award are both contributing to the certainly exceeds all expectations. There are 1150 support of this special work of the Church. pages of vellum scribed on both sides and this original This issue is the last for this year and so you will be is in a purpose built gallery in St John’s University in aware that our renewal of subscriptions will be sent Minnesota. However, the monks also wanted to share out in the second part of the year. Please remember it with the world and so produced 299 heritage copies to use the code provided when making bank deposits that are extraordinary in their own right. Our University so that we can note your subscription payment. Some has on loan the volume of Gospel and Acts and we accounts are very difficult to trace if the correct code is are preparing to launch our Year with St John’s Bible not used.