Publisher's Description:
"Sourcebook for Sundays, Seasons, and Weekdays: The Almanac for Pastoral Liturgy is the essential and trusted resource to help you prepare the liturgy for all seasons of the liturgical year, each Sunday, solemnity, feast, memorial, optional memorial, and seasonal weekday! If you are a priest or deacon, liturgist or worship team member, religious educator or looking for more information about Catholic liturgy, this publication will be an invaluable tool!

This year¿s book is for Year A, Weekday Year I. It begins with November 28, 2010 the First Sunday of Advent, and continues through November 26, 2011, the last day of Ordinary Time.

Sourcebook for Sundays, Seasons, and Weekdays is organized in two user-friendly sections: The Season and The Calendar. General material relevant to the whole period is included in the Season section. You will learn more about the meaning of the season, the saints who are honored, the liturgical books, the liturgical environment, the liturgical music, and how to bring the liturgy into your homes! Specific to this year are notes on the Gospel according to Matthew, the primary evangelist for Year A. The Calendar section is a straightforward almanac, and the only resource, which consistently provides pastoral reflections and ideas for each day of the liturgical year. You can look up any day of the liturgical year and find basic liturgical information as well as ideas for how to celebrate the liturgy.

There are multiple authors for this year¿s edition of Sourcebook. Each author brings a wealth of pastoral experience and liturgical expertise to their sections. Well-known authors such as:
Corinna Laughlin (primary author for the rites and scripture commentaries)
Jill Maria Murdy (Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults, Liturgical Music)
Therese Brown (school liturgy)
Mary Patricia Storms (liturgical environment)
Michael R. Prendergast (liturgical music)
And introducing:
Ann E. Degenhard (The Parish and the Home)
Robert C. Rabe (saints/sanctoral cycle)

This book includes
Reflections on the Gospel for Year A
Notes on preparing for Mass, receiving sacraments, celebrating the Liturgy of the Hours
Ideas to enhance the choice of music and the liturgical environment
How to celebrate the liturgy in Catholic schools
Ways to bring the liturgy into your home
Features on liturgical ministry, devotions and sacramentals, and school liturgies
Reproducible music preparation sheet and server/sacristan Triduum checklists
Commentary useful for homilies, catechesis, and liturgy preparation
Abbreviations for Church documents
Original invitation to the Penitential Act (Penitential Rite)
Original invitation, response, and conclusion to the Prayer of the Faithful
Original dismissal texts for RCIA and children's Liturgy of the Word
The Proclamations for the Nativity and Epiphany of the Lord
The Rite for the Reception of the Holy Oils

If you are a priest or deacon, liturgist or worship team member, religious educator or looking for more information about Catholic liturgy, this publication will be an invaluable tool!

Paperback, 8 5/8 x 11 1/4"

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