Liturgical Press

Orientaciones litúrgicopastorales de la Comisión Episcopal de Pastoral Litúrgica. Celebraciones penitenciales para Cauresma, Adviento y Tiempo Ordinario. Celebraciones penitenciales especiales para niños, para jóvenes y para enfermos. Guías para el examen de conciencia: generales, para niños, para jóvenes. Leccionario completo para las celebraciones penitenciales con la traducción oficial del Episcopado Mexicano. Liturgical/pastoral guidance from the Bishops Commission on Liturgical Ministry...

Features: a rich, durable deep-red cloth cover embellished with Christ enthroned, rendered in a distinguished, bold style and foil stamped in gold and copper; interior adorned with eighteen beautiful and original illustrations, specially commissioned for this book, by the liturgical illustrator and artist Emanuel Franco-Gmez, OCarm.; prayer texts set in easy-to-proclaim type on natural ivory quality paper; five sturdy grosgrain ribbon bookmarks and a full complement of beautiful tabs to...

The reverent act of processing The Book of the Gospels from gathering to altar and from altar to ambo is an important part of the liturgical celebration. As the most visible book to the assembly, The Book of the Gospels is meant to convey the power of the word of God to our communities. Using traditional Roman design, our Book of the Gospels emphasizes the glory of the word through the use of beautiful gold- and silver-stamped liturgical art. The cover art includes an enhanced version of the...

The full-sized Ritual Edition and the smaller Chapel Edition of the Roman Missal feature: A rich, durable deep-red cloth cover embellished with Christ enthroned, rendered in a distinguished, bold style and foil stamped in gold and copper. Interior adorned with fifteen beautiful illustrations by renowned liturgical illustrator and cover artist Br. Martin Erspamer, OSB. Prayer texts set in readable, easy-to-proclaim type on natural ivory quality paper. Five sturdy grosgrain ribbon bookmarks and...

Sacraments are at the heart of our lives as Catholics, the way we celebrate together our continuing conversion and encounter with God. Sacramental preparation is essential if we are to experience the fullness of our life in community and in Christ. Ever conscious of the complex history of the church and its dynamic relationship to ritual, Father Lawrence Mick provides these booklets based on his popular Understanding the Sacraments Today’as a companion to the ongoing and repeated practices...

Features: a rich, durable deep-red cloth cover embellished with Christ enthroned, rendered in a distinguished, bold style and foil stamped in gold and copper; interior adorned with eighteen beautiful and original illustrations, specially commissioned for this book, by the liturgical illustrator and artist Emanuel Franco-Gmez, OCarm.; prayer texts set in easy-to-proclaim type on natural ivory quality paper; five sturdy grosgrain ribbon bookmarks and a full complement of beautiful tabs to...

AVAILABLE APRIL 2017 | RESERVE YOUR COPY TODAY!Since the publication of the current English-language Lectionary for Mass (a process completed in 2002), a variety of liturgical changes have expanded the possibilities for the Scripture readings that the church provides for proclamation on various occasions. These include, among many others,an expanded Vigil Mass for Pentecost; celebrations of new saints, such as Junpero Serra, Juan Diego, John XXIII, and John Paul II; new Votive Masses, such as...

The Order of Baptism of Children Second Edition, HardcoverDetails: 192 pgs , 7 1/4 x 10 1/2Publication Date: 01/06/2020 A handsomely bound, gold and silver-stamped book, The Order of Baptism of Children, Second Edition, contains the texts for the new, revised order plus the optional rites including the Order of Baptism within Mass. It features the official ritual for several children and one child; parts clearly marked for the celebrant, parents, and godparents; an explanation of the...

by Anthony J. Gittins, Foreword by Gerald A. Arbuckle Our globalized world increasingly brings together people of many different cultures, though not always harmoniously. In recent decades, multinational companies have sought more efficient strategies for authentic intercultural collaboration. But in today's multicultural world-church, faith communities too—from local parishes to international religious communities—are faced with the challenge of intercultural living. The social sciences have...

Give Us This Day Daily Prayer, Monthly Publication Give Us This Day is an invitation to pray daily. Whether you have five minutes or a half hour, Give Us This Day supports your desire to pray with: Daily inspiration from the lives of saintly witnessesInsightful, relevant reflections on ScriptureSimplified daily prayer for morning and evening Give Us This Day is a monthly publication centered on the Word of God. Drawing inspiration from a multitude of voices, it provides a relevant and...

Inspired by her daily contemplation and meditation on the Scriptures, Carmelite Sister Mary Grace Melcher offers this book of deeply meaningful prayers of the faithful for every day of the year. Cycles A, B, and C for Sundays and the two-year cycle for weekdays are all included. These beautiful intercessions echo the grace of the day indicated by the Scripture readings and have been prayed in her monastic community for years. Enrich your community's liturgy with these beautiful and inspiring...

Taken together, these three volumes represent a basic English-language reference book of patristic works. Volume 1 ends circa 382; Volume 2 concludes with Julian of Eclanum (d. 454); Volume 3 ends with St. John of Damascene (d. 749).

A Ritual for Laypersons Rites for Holy Communion and the Pastoral Care of the Sick and Dying176 pgs , 4 1/2 x 6 3/4This book conveniently gathers in one place those rites at which a layperson may preside in the absence of a priest or deacon. Included are Holy Communion outside Mass; pastoral care of the sick; pastoral care of the dying; a selection of readings, responses, and verses from Sacred Scripture; and prayers for the dead and mourners. Now with changes to prayers as reflected in The...

Ministry Of Communion-Spanish 2nd Edition The Communion Ministry offers practical advice and vital theology for Eucharistic ministers. Updated with the latest liturgical laws and regulations, this book is an excellent guide for both people who serve God's people and those who help them prepare for ministry. Father and Doctor Michael Kwatera, OSB, a monk from St. JohnΓÇÖs Abbey, Collegeville, Minnesota, has been a graduate and university-level liturgy teacher and a liturgy practitioner in...

When Other Christians Become Catholic Paul Turner, STD Paperback, 184 pgs , 6 x 9 Each year, many adults who have never been baptized become Catholic. In the United States, these adults are outnumbered by baptized Christians of other denominations who seek to enter into the full communion of the Catholic Church. In the minds of many Catholics’indeed, in many parish preparation programs’there is little difference between the two groups. Baptized and catechized Christians are often placed in...

Bendiciones que se refieren directamente a las personas.Bendiciones que atañen a las diversas actividades de los cristianos.las cosas que en las iglesias se destinan al uso litúrgico o a las prácticas de devoción.Bendición de ciertos objetos de devoción del pueblo cristiano.Bendiciones para diversas circunstancias. Blessings that refer directly to people.Blessings that pertain to the diverse activities of Catholics.Blessings of things in churches destined for liturgical use or devotional...

Un ritual es un libro que contiene la forma en que han de celebrarse los ritos de los distintos sacramentos. Se llama "ritos" a los gestos y textos que expresan y forman una acción litúrgica. El Ritual breve no es un nuevo ritual, porque no se refiere a un rito "nuevo". Es una pequeúa selección de los rituales oficiales actualizados. Especialmente de aquellas celebraciones que puede presidir el presbítero. Está pensando en las necesidades de los presbíteros que en su ministerio pastoral tienen...

Beyond the dramatic drop in seminarians and the declining numbers of priests, beyond the sexual misconduct scandals shaking the confidence and trust once readily given to priests, a spiritual deepening and maturing is renewing the spirit and confidence of the diocesan priest. In this collection of essays, twelve priests (including four bishops) reflect on the spirituality of the diocesan priest from their personal and pastoral experience. Have diocesan priests finally transcended the monastic...

The consolidation and closure of parishes across the United States has become a fact of contemporary Catholic life. Responding to such an event is often traumatic. How do lay leaders allow their parish to heal when an approved ritual format does not exist? Through the voice of experience and local diocesan offices, Michael Weldon, OFM, has created a guide to the reconciliation process and the rites of parish closures in A Struggle for Holy Ground. Composed of thirty-five interviews conducted...

In October 2014, Pope Francis told a group of evangelical Protestant leaders visiting him at the Vatican, "We each have in our churches excellent theologians. That's another way to walk together also. But we shouldn't wait for them to reach agreement!" One Hope: Re-Membering the Body of Christ is a resource to help local Christian communities walk together, recognizing and nourishing unity at a grass-roots level as we mark the five hundredth anniversary of the Reformation. The essays in One...

Women Deacons? Essays with Answers Edited by Phyllis Zagano The question of restoring women to the ordained diaconate surfaced during the Second Vatican Council and continued to resound in academic and pastoral circles well after the diaconate was restored as a permanent order in the church in the West. This volume contains twelve essays-five translated from Italian, three translated from French, and four in their original English-that answer the questions about the history and possible future...

Not a few figures—writers, poets, activists, teachers—have focused on the presence of the Holy One in the ordinary, on the many possibilities of worldly spirituality. In this book, pastor, teacher, and theologian Michael Plekon introduces us to several persons of faith from both the Western and Eastern Church traditions to illumine God's presence in everyday living: the world as sacrament. In this discovery of liturgy and life entwined, Plekon shows how these lives, and our own lives, are...

The Rule Of Benedict For Beginners Spirituality for Daily Life Wil Derkse; Martin Kessler, TranslatorBenedictine spirituality is simple and down to earth. Not only does the Benedictine lifestyle fit well within the walls of the monastery, its interpretation of life is also suitable to other forms of society. In The Rule of Benedict for Beginners, Wil Derkse reveals how elements from Benedictine spirituality and the Benedictine lifestyle may be fruitful outside the monastery to strengthen the...

This book provides a paragraph-by-paragraph commentary on the Catholic Church's Order of Celebrating Matrimony. Readers will learn about the history and theology of the elements of the rite and of the pertinent texts in the Roman Missal. Paul Turner provides translations of reports of the study group that revised the ceremony after the Second Vatican Council. The book also covers the Spanish translations used in the United States, Mexico, and Colombia, and variations permitted in Australia and...