Note From the Editor: Covid -19, this edition of 'Liturgy' magazine is being sent out as a PDF. Printed magazines willIn bethis sent unusual to subscribers time when when the world circumstances has stopped permit. to fight Liturgy A magzine to support liturgical life in parishes, schools and other faith communities. Produced by the Catholic Diocese of Auckland, Liturgy Centre We pray that Uncle Michael will be a good Bishop ... and that he will still have time to visit us... ... Lord hear us! Volume 45 Number 1 March 2020 Liturgy Vol 45.1 March 2020 1 Liturgy The Liturgy Centre - Te Kawe Ritenga Tapu The quarterly magazine of the Liturgy Centre, Catholic Diocese of Auckland Mission Statement To resource and energize our faith communities to March 2020 participate fully, consciously and actively in the liturgy and so take up Christ's Mission. Contents From the Editor .. .. .. .. .. .. 2 Imagining Pentecost: Celebrating women in the Church .. 6 National Office Professional Standards. .. .. .. 11 Sounds Rite - Lift up their Voices .. .. .. .. 12 Coffee with Mons .. .. .. .. .. .. 16 The RCIA .. .. .. .. .. 18 Silence - Towards a more contemplative Eucharist .. .. 21 Above: Participants at 'Lift up THEIR Voices' making new friends. Laudato Si' Week .... .. .. .. 24 Savouring Silence .. .. ... .. .. 28 Guidelines for hygiene at Mass .. .. .. .. 30 Cover image : Prayer of faithful at the Episcopal Ordination of Michael Gielen. Photo ACYM Contributions are welcome: Postal address: Private Bag 47 904, Ponsonby, The Editor, Liturgy Centre, Auckland, 1144, Aotearoa - New Zealand Catholic Diocese of Auckland. © Catholic Diocese of Auckland. Email: [email protected] All rights reserved. See back cover for subscription information. Ph: 09 360 3061 Registered Magazine ISSN 1170-4314 Visit our website at www.aucklandcatholic.org.nz/liturgy/ 2 Liturgy Vol 45.1 March 2020 Liturgy Vol 45.1 March 2020 1 for the richness and wonder of life. you might like to discuss something From the Editor COLLECT: This is when we bring to from the readings. 5 minutes perhaps. _____________________________________________________________________________________________ mind all the things we want to pray for. INTERCESSORY PRAYER: It is always _____________________________________________________________________________________________ We do this in silence. Once you have had important to pray for the needs of time to bring these things to mind, say a others. If you are not sure what to pray Christianity is a gathering religion. encounter with Jesus, the incarnate prayer aloud asking God to accept your for, have a look at Prayer of the Faithful Where two or three are gathered in my one, the Paschal Mystery. But mostly of prayers and the prayers of others with suggestions on the Liturgy Centre name, there am I amongst them. The course, we gather because Jesus said, you. website or ask yourself, 'what do people Catholic Liturgy is a gathering activity. 'do this.' READING 1: Read aloud (even if you are need?' The Church calls her people to gather PEACE: Offer peace in Christ to others each Sunday, the Lord's Day. We are called to be responsible citizens and to the world. Remember, Jesus said, of our community, our nation and our timeby yourself) of silence the (2 first minutes). reading of the day. 'peace be with you.' With Covid-19 upon us, we are facing a world. As health authorities struggle PSALM:When the You reading could issing, finished, chant allowor read a SONG: If you want to, you could end new way of doing things - temporarily to contain the spread of infection, we the Pslam of the day. with a song. we hope. must act responsibly and this means READING 2: If it is a Sunday - again, Visit the Liturgy Centre website to see songs participation at Sunday Eucharist is not follow the reading with silence. suggested for any given Sunday. Before we forge new ways of praying currently possible. What are we to do? GOSPEL: Again follow this with silence. For daily readings, visit USCCB.org on Sunday and of being Church, it is DISCUSS: if you are with other people or, Universalis.com important to recall some of the reasons We know Christ is present in the Judith Courtney we gather. Eucharistic elements, in the Priest, in The liturgy, especially Sunday Eucharist the assembly and in the Word. Even if - gives us an experience of church We say farewell and best - is a meeting place available to us, Christ is fully present in wishes to Marcelles Amiatu. the first of these three presences are not Haere Rā Marcel - leads us to grow in faith the Word and there is much to be gained For the past three years, - brings us to a place of encounter from celebrating in our home a Liturgy Marcel has worked in - is transformative. Our participation of the Word. in it leads to change in us – you are the Pompallier Diocesan Centre potter, I am the clay. The format below might help you asthe a LiturgyLiturgy Advisor. Office He has of the - helps us understand who we are celebrate such a liturgy. recently taken up a position in - helps express and answer our deep Apia, working for Archbishop human needs – to be connected, to love, SONG: begin with singing, something Alapati Lui Mataeliga in a to be loved, to forgive and be forgiven, familiar that you know well. newly established National to give thanks, to praise SIGN OF THE CROSS: make the sign of - offers us an encounter with goodness, the cross and warmly welcome anyone task will be be translating - offers us an encounter with mercy else who is there with you. theLiturgy Roman Office. Missal The andmain Pictured: Grandfather Amiatu Amiatu, Marcel and wife Aniva, with - offers us an encounter with truth REJOICE IN GOD"S MERCY: This could Sacramental books into children (l-r) Maselusi, Tueni, Lamar, Fu’a, Feata, and Lelepa. - offers us an encounter with beauty be the Lord have mercy, it could be a - ‘rights’ my relationship with God and familiar prayer you know, or you could Thank you Marcel for your contribution to the Liturgy Centre over the past three with my neighbour and with my world. make up your own prayer. don't make it years.Samoan We wishfrom you andEnglish. your familyMarcel the veryis bestfluent as you takein upboth your newEnglish position and Samoan. - brings us to a place of life changing too long. Then offer a prayer of thanks in Samoa. 2 Liturgy Vol 45.1 March 2020 Liturgy Vol 45.1 March 2020 3 Tēnā Koe e Pā 4 Liturgy Vol 45.1 March 2020 Liturgy Vol 45.1 March 2020 5 Imagining Pentecost that while there they held an election to they do not appear. In these images we bring that core group, The Twelve,’ back just have ‘the apostles’ upon whom the Celebrating Women in the up to strength after Judas Iscariot’s Church is founded and Mary who is its Church departure. So the extra men could model, no more and no less. Thomas O’Loughlin be Matthias and Joseph Barsabbas who was not chosen. But what about Our images in mosaic and oil, on walls imagining some other women there, and canvas, by great artists decorating Thomas O'Loughlin is a priest of the Diocese of Arundel and Brighton, and Professor of Historical Theology at Nottingham University alongside Mary? Do you think some church walls with fresco and by children women should be included? And, if doing likewise with markers, paper and Running in the back of our minds as we of an envelope or list what you see in you think that some women should be pray, preach, and think are the great your memory. allowed into that momentous scene – one woman should be seen in the image images that we share in common. These the beginning of the life of the Church ofblu-tack the Spirit all affirm empowering a single image:the Church only are so common in fact that for most of I suspect that the image looks something within Luke’s preaching –should they at Pentecost. Let them be banished us, most of the time, they are invisible like this. There is a room with lots of forthwith from our icons. The very idea – yet these great images are potent people. Mary, probably in blue, in the is just more ‘soppy’ inclusiveness of because they can both open up a world middle, surrounded by the apostles Clearly,be shown the withanswer tongues to these of questions fire? in liberals who want to placate feminists for us or they can lock us into narrow (usually with a certain symmetry: six (at least that was one priest’s answer ways. on one side and six on the other), and when I posed the question at a day on Themost women imaginations simply is were a firm: not ‘No’: there: these in preaching the Year of Luke recently)! Imagination is the great liberator coming down from a dove further up thefigures millions should of not depictions intrude on of thePentecost scene. (therefore dictators dislike the free- inover the each picture. of the I remember heads a tongue seeing ofthis fire Sed contra: the ‘facts’ behind the image spirit of artists) and it can be a gaoler in a big coloured picture on a school Running in the back of are slightly more awkward than the our minds as we pray, way we commonly imagine it! art to spread their message). We as in a picture in a catechism, and I saw it preach, and think are (and hence tyrants want an official Christians have many common images: corridor when I was five years old, then the great images that glass window. Can you think of anything Jesus continued to celebrate a festival and, thanks to Luke’s great word picture ormost anyone recently else? in a magnificent stained we share in common.