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Rules For Celebrating Mass
Fr Geoffrey Steel- St. Augustine's Carlisle
The Bishops of England and Wales have released the revised edition of the General Instruction of the Roman Missal together with their own commentary, Celebrating the Mass. In these final months of the Year of the Eucharist, these new documents offer our parishes an excellent opportunity to evaluate how we celebrate the Mass, and how we might do it better.
Various publications have been prepared to help our study and reflection on these two documents:
- With Hearts and Minds is a resource for parish groups to use for a six week process of study, prayer, and reflection.
- In Communion with Christ is a whole-parish formation tool based on Sunday preaching on the liturgy and take-home sheets (one set for general use and one specifically for parents of young children). There are also additional resources to assist with liturgical preaching.
These two resources have the same general themes and are designed to be complementary and run alongside each other.
- A range of leaflets has been prepared for parish ministers, e.g. ministers of the Word and ministers of Holy Communion. These provide descriptions of particular ministries and hints on preparing and exercising them. These will help begin a process of formation with key people with little additional effort.
The General Instruction, Celebrating the Mass, and With Hearts and Minds are all published by CTS, www.cts-online.org.uk..
In Communion with Christ and additional resources for With Hearts and Minds can be downloaded from Liturgy Office website www.liturgyoffice.org.uk.
Also available from the Liturgy Office website is an abbreviated form of With Hearts and Minds, designed for use by priests and principal co-workers over a series of three deanery meetings.
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