Ordinary Time 1 | May 30 – September 4, 2010 | Year C FROM THE EDITOR COMPOSER PROFILE 2 ElainE REndlER-McQuEEnEy 35 JACK MiFFlETON On ministry with children, music/religious DEO GRATIAS education, and more 4 Words of thanks from our readers 37 MUSIC FOR REVIEW 4 ASK THE LITURGIST JACK MiFFlETON Answers to your questions on liturgy “Holy Spirit, Breath of God,” a selection from Rise Up & Sing, Third Edition 5 ORA ET LABORA angEla BEndotti 38 PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER: A vocation found down under DIRECTING LITURGICAL ENSEMBLES cHRiSTOPHER WalKER BULLETIN NOTES An excerpt from Liturgical Ensemble Basics 6 Liturgical catechesis for assembly members 7 FULL, CONSCIOUS, 42 Most Holy Trinity AND ACTIVE PREPARATION 44 Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ Miscellaneous ministry tips 46 Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time 48 Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time 8 SACRAMENTAL REAL PRESENCE 50 Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Rodica STOICOIU 52 Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Celebrating Christ’s presence, 54 Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time living it out in our lives 56 Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time 12 EVER FORWARD—WITH AN EYE ON THE 58 Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time REARVIEW MIRROR 60 Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time JaMES HanSEn 62 Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Cantors as storytellers 64 Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary: Vigil 66 Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary: Day LOOKING AHEAD TO THE NEW 16 68 Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time ROMAN MISSAL: THE MYSTERY OF FAITH An overview of the new English translation 70 Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time 72 Abbreviations used in music suggestions 18 BASIC CHANTS FOR THE ASSEMBLY: PART 1 Cover: Mass in Watatulu tribal hut (Mwankale, Tanzania), coluMBa KELLY, oSB Maryknoll Father Dan Ohmann, presider. Photo © Sean Developing a core repertoire Sprague. Used with permission of Maryknoll/Sprague. www.spraguephoto.com 24 MAKING MULTIPLE-PARISH MINISTRY SING MaRK MogilKa Practical solutions for cluster and merged parishes CANTATE 28 angEla WEStHoFF-JoHnSon Choral music suggestions for the season RITUAL NOTES 32 PAUL COVino Help with planning ritual moments From the Editor dear Friends: as I was sitting in one of those seemingly in- practicing, he’s putting his knowledge of chant terminable meetings apparently necessary to the to work with a schola in his new home state of survival of all institutions, a poster of a lovely Virginia. See “Ever Forward—With an Eye on lotus flower on the wall mercifully caught my the Rearview Mirror” on page 12. The third au- dr. Elaine eye. Beneath the image was a haiku by the sev- thor-musician is Benedictine Father columba Rendler-McQueeney enteenth-century Japanese poet Matsuo Basho Kelly, who invites us to share his love of chant Editor; liturgical & Music Suggestions (1644–1694): “the temple bell stops. / But the with a very practical article on implementing sound keeps coming / out of the flowers.” chant into your music program (see p. 18). the haiku reminded me of the innumerable We’ll be hearing more from him in the next musicians, liturgists, and presbyters who have issue of Today’s Liturgy as well. christopher poured their energies into ringing out the Gos- Walker, whose music resounds internationally, pel message to a generation of worshippers focuses our attention on the ensemble director and how the effect of their work keeps echoing in a chapter excerpted from Liturgical Ensem- Wade among the flowers—the people of God. Struck ble Basics on p. 38. Wisler by the Holy Spirit at some point, these min- in this issue you will enjoy dr. Rodica Managing Editor isters have continued to proclaim a message Stoicoiu’s third installment of essays on the of hope and salvation to their communities Eucharist, “Sacramental Real Presence,” on through music and the word. I am referring, of pp. 8–11. Reaffirm your commitment to your course, to all of you. ministry by reading why coming together on a Buddhist temple bell doesn’t ring like Sunday is more than sharing a meal together. I our church bells. It has no clacker. It’s usually think you will agree that her thoughts will nour- ish both the academic and the pastoral reader. Eric made of bronze (it can weight tons), and makes Schumock a booming sound when struck with a massive there are two situations that can seriously Editorial Processes wooden log that is suspended horizontally. Be- disturb the terra firma of a worshipping commu- division director cause of its complex arrangement of overtones, nity: one is the merging of parishes; the other is it has a deep reverberating sound that fades the formation of parish clusters. Trends indicate away only after what can be quite a long time, that this will eventually affect half of all US par- depending on the bell. The response to the bell ishes. Mark Mogilka’s compelling essay “Mak- is to stand with hands folded as in prayer, eyes ing Multiple Parish Ministry Sing” (p. 24) takes closed until the vibrations of the sound pro- a look at the challenges, suggests direction, and duced in the body completely stop. offers us help to make a changing community of Bari colombari there are four musicians featured in this faith blossom again. Don’t miss it. Senior Research Editor issue of Today’s Liturgy whose call sound- north of the equator, we are transitioning ed early in life and whose overtones are still into the summer season, a season of Ordinary sounding with today’s assemblies. The first is time in the liturgical year if not ordinary in our our featured composer, Jack Miffleton, who lives. Many will take time for recreation and has spent most of his life making music and vacation. Take some time to reflect on and en- teaching our faith to children through music. joy your years of ministry and how your service He began composing popular liturgical songs continues to resonate in the life of your commu- angela in the early 60’s when his song “alle, Alle” be- nities—both in the moment and in the future. Westhoff-Johnson came an Easter favorite. Today he is still a se- For a vacation thought, i leave you with choral Suggestions riously committed music educator who works the words of Jesuit Father Anthony de Mello in a multicultural school and continues to edit from his Song of the Bird: “do you wish to ocP’s Today’s Liturgy with Children. hear temple bells? Listen to the sound of the one can hardly mention resonance without sea. Do you wish to catch a glimpse of God? thinking of master cantor Jim Hansen. We are look intently at creation” (new York: Image/ all indebted to him, especially for his develop- doubleday, 1984). ment of the ministry of the cantor. I first met Paul Jim years ago when he was cantor at the Ba- Feel the vibrations! covino silica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Ritual Suggestions conception in Washington, DC. Now, besides Elaine Rendler-McQueeney 2 Ordinary Time 1 2010 Today’s LITURGY TODAY’S LITURGY Do you want to Volume 32 Number 3 USPS 015-896 ISSN 1080-2452 ENGAGE, UNITE and INSPIRE is published quarterly by OCP your community? 5536 NE Hassalo Portland, OR 97213-3638 Periodical postage paid at Portland, OR Editor, Liturgical & Musical Suggestions Elaine Rendler-McQueeney, DMA OCP composers and authors will be leading the way Ritual Suggestions Paul Covino Managing Editor Wade Wisler at the 2010 NPM National Convention in Detroit. Editorial Assistance Bari Colombari, Katy Haerling, Melissa Schmidt, Nancy Wolf From keynotes and workshops to concerts and Publisher John J. Limb retreats, discover new ways to connect with your Director of Artist Relations and Product Development Tom Tomaszek parishioners and keep them coming back! 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Today’s LITURGY Ordinary Time 1 2010 3 Deo Gratias Deo gratias to Father Michael Broderick, who after i would like to thank Father Bob Valley for the mes- fourteen years of working with our music ministry still sages of love he gives us every weekend in his sermons. encourages our growth and is appreciative of the music He is really in touch with people and is able to bring god ministry’s hard work. He understands how the partnership to us through the love in his messages.