On July 16, Bishop Oscar Ojea of San Isidro delivered hosts made by women at the San Martin Penitentiary outside Buenos Aires.

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1 ARCHDIOCESE OF DUBUQUE Fall, 2013 Edition Vol. 25, No.3 OFFICE OF WORSHIP M. Peggy Lovrien M.A., Director Susan Black, Secretary ONE The Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, promulgated on December 4, 1963, was the first document of the Second Vatican Council and shaped the liturgy that we celebrate today. This year, we mark the 50th Anniversary of the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy. The parish can mark the anniversary and encourage Liturgy committee members, musicians, and parish councils to read a paragraph from the constitution at each meeting this year in order to review the Church s call to fully implement the full and conscious participation of all Catholics in the liturgy. (You can print a copy of the Constitution in English or Spanish - at For the coming 12 months, you can print these paragraphs in the parish bulletin in a section entitled, The Anniversary Of The Constitution On The Sacred Liturgy. In the introduction to the Constitution, Pope Paul VI said, This sacred Council has several aims in view: It desires to impart an ever increasing vigor to the Christian life of the faithful; to adapt more suitably to the needs of our own times those institutions which are subject to change; to foster whatever can promote union among all who believe in Christ; to strengthen whatever can help to call the whole of mankind into the household of the Church. The Council therefore sees particularly cogent reasons for undertaking the reform and promotion of the liturgy. Let us mark the Anniversary of the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy by becoming more familiar with it. Here is a recommended reading of paragraphs for your parish meetings and bulletin for the coming months: December: Introduction Chapter II, #62 January: Chapter 1 - # 5-7 February: Chapter I - # 8, 9, 10 March: Chapter I # 11, 12, 13 April: Chapter I # 14, 15, 16 May: Chapter I # June: Chapter I # 19, 20, 21 July: Chapter I # 26, 27, 28 August: Chapter I # 29 to 32 September: Chapter I # 33 to 36 October: Chapter I # 37 to 40 November: Chapter II - # 47 to 53 December: Chapter II # 54, 55, 56, 59 and 64 TWO Hosts made by women in an Argentine prison became the Body of Christ during daily Masses celebrated by Pope Francis in his residence over the summer. On July 16, Bishop Oscar Ojea of San Isidro delivered hosts made by women at the San Martin Penitentiary outside Buenos Aires. In gratitude, the pope sent a note to Gabriela Caballero, the inmate in charge of the host-making project, telling her how moving it was for him to use these hosts. 1 Father Jorge Garcia Cuerva, chaplain to Caballero and the other inmates of Unit 47 at St. Martin, noted that the host-making workshop started in a prison bathroom and the hosts were now being used at the center of the church because they become the Eucharist. For more, see CNS. THREE Have you taken inventory of your parish Liturgical Music repertoire recently? Before you start another cycle A year of liturgical music, it will be good to analyze the repertoire you are using. Would you like some help? In the FirstClass conference folder, there is an icon named, Worship. In it is a file for liturgical music planners. Whether you use Breaking Bread (OCP) or Worship/Gather (GIA), you will find the list helpful. This table is a sample from the St. Thomas Aquinas cluster of musicians in our Archdiocese who are analyzing their repertoire in order to consider a unified roster of

2 music. What a role model the musicians of Temple Hill, Garryowen, Filmore, and Cascade are as they work toward such a unifying effort! What is a unified roster of music? Aware that some parishioners of the cluster travel from church to church (two churches have Mass only once a month), the liturgical music leaders gathered together to talk about planning the same roster (list) of music for all the parishes to do on the same Sunday. Additionally, they are committed to using the same list of songs as their unified liturgical music repertoire. In the file, you will see that to organize their list, they made a table in Word and listed all the music they use. They found they were using 1300 pieces of music for entrance and recessional, 200 for communion procession, and 30 for the presentation of gifts. They had three Mass settings (Alleluia, Holy, Memorial Acclamation, Amen, Lamb of God), two sprinkling rite acclamations, and three Lord Have Mercy. Repetition for the assembly WORKS! In the conversation, the musicians noted that they would get bored repeating music and not doing new music. There is an answer! The music makers can do 2 preludes before Mass every time and 1 postlude and build their own music group repertoire of music that might be difficult for the assembly but challenging for the music group! Sometimes, these pieces can be used during the collection and presentation of gifts at Mass, too. FOUR Reminder for Liturgical Calendar for the Fall of 2013: Friday, November 1, All Saints Day is an obligatory holy day. November 2, All Souls Day, is never a holy day of obligation. The feast of the Immaculate Conception of Mary, December 8, falls on Sunday, the Second Sunday of Advent, The ordo informs us that the Church will mark the Immaculate Conception of Mary on Monday, December 9, but the celebration will not be a holy day of obligation. FIVE In the November/December issue of Pastoral Liturgy Magazine (LTP), Father Thomas Scirghi wrote an article entitled, Encouraging the Assembly to Full Participation. To prepare to write the article, he met with other priests to discuss the issue. He wrote, it occurred to me that most of the conversations I hear around the topic of active participation begin with concern for the laity s level of participation... However, in rereading Sacrosanctum Concilium [Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy], it becomes clear that the discussion of active participation begins not with the laity but with the clergy. The vision of the Second Vatican Council was to enable all the baptized to see themselves as holy: But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people of his own, so that you may announce the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. (I Pt. 2: 9) He goes on to say that the vision of the Second Vatican Council was meant to do more than change the texts and rubrics and focus more on life-long formation of all in the assembly through the liturgy. So we might ask how well we are doing with on-going spiritual conversion of people in the assembly. Do they see themselves as a holy nation? SIX The Worship Office worked with Amy Dolan, the new director of music at Resurrection parish, Dubuque to cosponsor a LITURGICAL MUSICIAN NETWORK meeting at Resurrection parish last month. Music leaders in the area played music for one another and talked about what they use for preludes 2 and postludes (when there is no choir or instrumental group) They also talked about the way they use psalms in the liturgy. Two highlights of the meeting were Jack Hostager, Cassie Koetz, and Michael Banwarth. Jack, a teen from Holy Spirit parish, Dubuque, played a prelude on cello with Cassie Koetz, a young adult and director of music at the parish accompanied him on the piano. Michael Banwarth played and sang a prelude, In Every Age O God. See him at this link cantoring with other teen leaders at Co-sponsor a session, like Amy did, in your area. the Worship Office! We will help invite others. DBQCWH@arch.pvt.k12.ia.us or call x SEVEN The next NPM convention will be quite close for us in the Archdiocese. The National Association of Pastoral Musicians 37th Annual Convention will be July 14 18, 2014 in St. Louis, Missouri!! This is a great time to bring the young people of your parish to see what fun it can be to make music to help Catholics sing the Mass. Go to for more information. Plan ahead!! There will be Performances in Great Spaces for: Young Organists St. Louis Archdiocesan Choir Music She Wrote Hymn Festival Revival Organ and Brass concerts Acoustic Guitar concerts Jazz Contemporary

3 There will be liturgies, exhibits, workshops, and classes on how to sing and play. NPM also has a special division for YOUTH. Steve Angrisano and Curtis Stephan will do the FOR YOUTH ONLY workshop on liturgical music and will take time to pray and reflect in Word, silence, and song on how our lives as young music ministers can help the entire Body of Christ live Jesus more clearly. Pre-registration fee: $30. On-site registration, based on availability, for a fee of $50. (You can see why you will want to plan ahead.) Also, Rachelle Kramer, from East Dubuque, is the chairperson of NPM Youth. Hear Rachelle talk about her experience studying at St. John s University: PQz7DajE&feature=youtu.be" ww.youtube.com/watch?v=gejpqz7d aje&feature=youtube EIGHT Church design, restoration, renovation, or new structures often highlight the different impressions parishioners have about the appropriate design of a church. The Archdiocese of Dubuque has a commission that considers plans parish communities might propose for the building or renovation of a Church. The CDRC Church Design and Renovation Commission, sends trained liturgical leaders to parishes considering painting, putting new flooring in the church, or even building a new church. Call the Worship Office for more information. NINE Do you have a young liturgical music leader in your parish that you would like to feature? Send the Worship Office a note, picture, and description for publication in the next Liturgy and Life. TEN Check out new resources for leaders of INTIATION (RCIA) on the FirstClass application conference folder marked RCIA. If you do not have access to FirstClass, the Archdiocesan s Outlook app, please talk with your pastor or parish staff representative about viewing the resources with their help. We all know that the Rite of Acceptance into the order of the Catechumenate can be celebrated after the person has been meeting weekly for faith sharing sessions and is ready to commit to participating every Sunday in the Liturgy of the Word at Mass. Commitment to these basic "Catholic habits" shows us that the person is serious about practicing the Catholic faith and this outward sign indicates readiness for the Catechumenate. The Rite of Acceptance can be celebrated at any time although less often during Advent-Christmas season or Lent to allow attention to those unique liturgies. RCIA paragraph 55 says that there is freedom to use other appropriate acclamations or refrains for sung acclamations in the Rite. In a bilingual assembly, "Digo Si Senor" works, for example, for the Signing of the Senses. Other well known refrains of psalms and songs can work, too. Plan to lead your staff through the introduction of the Rite of Acceptance - RCIA, 48 to 74 - at your next staff meeting and use the outline of rite in your RCIA study edition. You are the on-site teacher helping others understand the way the RCIA can 3 enrich the spiritual life of the whole parish. When the presider, the staff, and the people in charge of parish hospitality read the text and rite, and then talk about it, it is easier to celebrate the rite. By the way, the Rite of Election and Call to Continuing Conversion (CCC) always takes place on the first Sunday in Lent. Next March 9th, 2014, 2:30 pm we will celebrate it in three places, the Cathedral in Dubuque will be one of the three. In the SW part of the Archdiocese, we will be at St. Henry, Marshalltown. We are talking with a parish for the northern part of the Archdiocese. And, as we all know, if the candidate is already a baptized Christian, we celebrate the Rite of Welcome - RCIA,411 to (into "this community of believers") instead of the Rite of Acceptance (which is into the Catechumenate). May God, who constantly works in every individual's life, move the unbaptized and uncatechizedbaptized to join us on our journey of faith. Everyone needs the message of hope our Gospels proclaim! EVENTS AND GROUPS The Archdiocesan Chorale is a liturgical choir that enables the People of God to sing the liturgy. The Chorale sings at the Rite of Election, Chrism Mass, and Ordinations. Rehearsals are once a month at the Cathedral in Dubuque, the second Tuesday of each month. Sr. LaDonna Manternach, BVM, DMA, chair of the Clarke University Music Department, is the director of the Archdiocesan Chorale. Singers enjoy learning liturgical music and how to use their voices better. Join the Archdiocesan Chorale and check us out on facebook at Dubuque Archdiocesan Chorale.

4 MAILBOX Q. We noticed the file in the FirstClass Worship folder entitled Hymn books cheaper than missalettes. Can you elaborate on that idea? Our Parish Council is interested in saving money. A. The file helps parish groups outlines how much money we throw into the re-cycle bin every year when we use missalettes. In one parish, for example, 500 disposable books from OCP this past year cost $ and the shipping (one time) was $ The parish budgets $ for the disposable hymnals, accompaniment book updates, and guitar book updates. When we do the math, for this sample parish, over five years, the parish is spending $18, and throwing away the books (due to copyright laws on the books). In ten years, the parish spends $36, on paper hymnals. The same music can be purchased via hard cover hymnal through OCP. For 500 copies, there is a one time cost of $ a saving, over ten years, of $28, now who would not want to save the parish almost $30,000 dollars! Besides OCP s hymnal at $14.50 per book, GIA publications has hymnals for the same price. We find that the GIA hymnals have more resources for the liturgical planner with 12 indexes listing the hymns for the Church Year, scripture passages related to hymns/songs, index of first lines and titles, and much more. Some parishioners argue that replacing a paper hymnal and missalette pair (see the extra $$$) with a hardback hymnal means the readings are not available to the person in the pew to read along. Our Lectionary introduction tells us, In the hearing of God s word the church is built up and grows... (LI, 7). The Church tells us, The word of God, constantly proclaimed in the Liturgy is always, then, a living and effective word (Hebrews 4:12) through the power of the Holy Spirit. It expresses the Father s love that never fails in its effectiveness toward us. (LI,4) The first value is that the Word of God is proclaimed well. It is not our mission to send someone into the Ambo to mumble the scripture while the people, who cannot make out what the lector says, read along in a booklet. It is our mission to train lectors to proclaim the Word of God clearly, slowly, prayerful, and with an understanding of what he/she proclaims. As the Lectionary introduction tells us, When God communicates his word, he expects a response, one, that is, of listening and adoring in Spirit and in truth (John 4:23). (LI,6) It continues, Accordingly, the participation of the faithful in the Liturgy increases to the degree that, as they listen to the Word of God proclaimed in the Liturgy, they strive harder to commit themselves to the Word of God incarnate in Christ. Thus, they endeavor to confirm their way of life to what they celebrate in the Liturgy, and then in turn, bring to the celebration of the Liturgy all that they do in life. (LI, 6). In the 1970s, Catholics read along as the scripture was read. We needed time to train our lectors to proclaim well. Today, we have many effective and well-trained lectors who proclaim instead of read the scriptures. (If not, we need to regroup and train our lectors again.) Although every hard cover hymnal is sold with the readings included, it is best to pass up that option and 4 encourage the People of God to listen to the proclamation of the Word, allowing every word to soak into their memory and their hearts. For those who are hearingimpaired, we provide options such as hearing apparatuses for use during the Liturgy as a whole. OCP and GIA also provide booklets with readings only. When it comes to a music resource for a parish, consider saving the parish money with a hardcover hymnal. We can all use the parish budget with thoughtful stewardship. WEB RESOURCES and APPS The ordo is available as an app! Go to your APP store and type in ordo. You want the Ordo Paulist Press. You can pray morning prayer, mid day prayer, and evening prayer with others throughout the world! In the APP store, type in Liturgy of the Hours and you will have a couple of options from which to choose. You can get the GIA hymnal on your Ipad and carry that from liturgy to liturgy instead of the big accompaniment books. Check out GIA s web page. PIPE ORGANS GEMS FROM OUR ANCESTORS Bonnie O Brien plays the Lyon and Healy Pipe Organ in her parish. Established in 1864, the Lyon & Healy company was the leading maker of concert harps in the world. In addition to harps, they built pianos, player pianos, organs, and many other types of musical instruments

5 for several decades. Lyon & Healy pianos and organs were of superior quality and the company enjoyed a stellar reputation. This two manual tracker has a 30 note straight pedal board and 7 ranks. Parishioners believe that it was built around 1900, and, although it was originally pumped by hand, it has been adapted with an electrical pump or blower to make the pipes sound. The company quit making organs and pianos in the Great Depression. Today, they continue to make harps widelyplayed by professional musicians. They are one of the few makers of harps for orchestral use which are known as concert harps or pedal harps. Lyon & Healy also makes smaller folk harps or lever harps, (based on traditional Irish and Scottish instruments) that use levers to change string pitch instead of pedals. Last year, Bonnie and parish musicians invited the organ builder, Lynn Dobson Organ company from Nov. 10, Liturgy 1:00 p.m. St. Elizabeth Ann Seton,Closing of Year of Faith, Archbishop Jackels Nov. 22: Feast of St. Cecilia. Bless your parish musicians at Mass with blessing from the Book of Blessings Nov. 24, Feast of Christ the King last Sunday of Liturgical Year C Nov. 30: First Sunday of Advent, Year A Dec. 8: Second Sunday of Advent Dec. 9: The Dec. 8 Feast of Immaculate Conception of Mary moved to Monday (not holy day of Iowa City, to tune and service the organ. They now use their gem their pipe organ, on Sundays. LITURGICAL MUSICIAN SPOTLIGHT Marlene Jeys has played the Wurlitzer organ at Blessed Sacrament Church in Waterloo since 1955 (58 years). Marlene, married with 5 children, remained a faithful and devoted liturgical organist all her life. There were times in the history of Blessed Sacrament when she was the only liturgical keyboard musician the parish had, so she would play for two or three Masses on the weekend. Marlene learned music from her third grade teacher, Sister Anthony, at St. Patrick s grade school in Cedar Falls. She began to play at children s liturgies when she was in the fifth grade (using a pump organ). By the time she was in obligation) Dec. 15: Third Sunday of Advent Dec. 22: Fourth Sunday of Advent Dec. 25: Christmas, holy day of obligation Dec. 28: Feast of Holy Innocents, Martyrs (Saturday morning) Dec. 29: Sunday, Feast of Holy Family Jan. 1: Holyday, Mary Mother of the Church Jan. 5: Epiphany Jan. 12: Baptism of the Lord. End of Christmas season. March 5: Ash Wednesday March 9: Lent I Rite of Election in 3 places April 15: Chrism Mass, Independence, IA, 2:00 pm April 17: Triduum begins, Holy Thursday April 20: Easter June 28: Ordination of Priests, Cathedral 5 High School, she was playing for the SATB choir at St. Patrick s. When she married Jerry Jeys in 1954, they moved to the Blessed Sacrament neighborhood. As they raised their family, she played the organ every Sunday and taught piano and organ in their home. Marlene believes that playing to help the assembly sing the Mass is a very rewarding experience and a wonderful way to pray. Marlene has blessed the Church with her gracious generosity and prayerful ministry. Thank you, Marlene. (Submitted by Deacon Herman, Director of Music. To highlight your liturgical musician, DBQCWH@arch.pvt.k12.ia.us with your story and a picture of your musician.) June 8: Pentecost The Lectionary cycles for Sunday: +Sunday Cycle YEAR C December, 2012 to November 24, Sunday Cycle YEAR A December 1, 2013 to November 23, Sunday Cycle YEAR B will start the first Sunday of Advent, 2014 and continue through 2015.

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