Living Liturgy - by Brian Schmisek & Diana Macalintal & Katy Beedle Rice (Paperback)

About the Book

Living Liturgy(TM) is your comprehensive go-to guide for preparing Sunday liturgy. The 2020 edition provides completely new content from an engaging team of expert authors. What you get is practical, sound, and inspiring preparation for your parish ministry.

This best-selling annual resource is ideal for parish ministers, liturgists, pastors, planning committees, and RCIA programs. It offers the week's Sunday readings, plus insightful reflections and background for parish ministers of all types. Engaging new art by three remarkable artists complements the text. Written completely fresh each liturgical year, Living Liturgy(TM) gives your team members the spiritual preparation they need to become true ministers of the liturgy.

Living Liturgy(TM) integrates daily living, prayer, and study in one inviting and easy-to-use resource. It is an indispensable guide that deepens and strengthens the worship experience for the whole parish. It includes featured liturgical texts, supports for ministry, and utility features. Consider it an essential resource to connecting the liturgy to leadership so that celebrating the liturgy and living a liturgical spirituality become the focus of each ministry.

Featured Liturgical Texts

- Collect

- Gospel Acclamation

- Gospel

- Responsorial Psalm

- First Reading

- Second Reading

Supports for Ministry

- Reflecting on the Gospel

- Living the Paschal Mystery

- Focusing the Gospel, First Reading, Responsorial Psalm, Second Reading

- About Liturgy

- About Liturgical Music

- About Initiation

- Prompts for Homilists, Catechists, and RCIA Teams

- Model Penitential Act

- Homily Points

- Model Universal Prayer (Prayer of the Faithful)

- Engaging art drawn from the gospel message

Utility Features

- How to use this resource guide

- Pronunciation guide

- Calendar-dated

- Perfect-bound

- Readings in sense lines

This book is one book of a four book comprehensive guide for your parish. The complementary books include:

• Living Liturgy Sunday Missal 2020

• Living Liturgy for Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion

• Living Liturgy for Music Ministers

Book Synopsis

Living Liturgy(TM) is your comprehensive go-to guide for preparing Sunday liturgy. The 2020 edition provides completely new content from an engaging team of expert authors. What you get is practical, sound, and inspiring preparation for your parish ministry.

This best-selling annual resource is ideal for parish ministers, liturgists, pastors, planning committees, and RCIA programs. It offers the week's Sunday readings, plus insightful reflections and background for parish ministers of all types. Engaging new art by three remarkable artists complements the text. Written completely fresh each liturgical year, Living Liturgy(TM) gives your team members the spiritual preparation they need to become true ministers of the liturgy.

Living Liturgy(TM) integrates daily living, prayer, and study in one inviting and easy-to-use resource. It is an indispensable guide that deepens and strengthens the worship experience for the whole parish. It includes featured liturgical texts, supports for ministry, and utility features. Consider it an essential resource to connecting the liturgy to leadership so that celebrating the liturgy and living a liturgical spirituality become the focus of each ministry.

This book is one book of a four book comprehensive guide for your parish. The complementary books include:

• Living Liturgy Sunday Missal 2020
• Living Liturgy for Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion
• Living Liturgy for Music Ministers

Review Quotes

The three authors of this resource have provided fresh insights for each Sunday's liturgy, as well as holy days, Paschal Triduum, Thanksgiving Day, and other occasions. Taking just a little time to focus on their insights and suggestions, you can easily make the material your own, giving you a stronger sense of confidence as these liturgies unfold. Living Liturgy integrates daily living, prayer, and study in one easy-to-use resource.Pastoral Music

"This is a well-deserved update that I will find helpful in beginning homily and liturgy preparation each week, and I highly recommend that it be added to the pastoral team's materials for the Eucharist."
Emmanuel

I keep Living Liturgy on my desk at the parish almost all of the time. It has become invaluable in my liturgy planning process. I also use this resource for lectio divina, both personally and to begin parish meetings.Marc Stockert, Pastoral Associate, St. Katharine Drexel Parish, Ramsey, MN

I purchased copies of Living Liturgy for Music Ministers for all our parish musicians and they love it! I also purchased copies of the version containing spirituality and catechesis for our pastor, deacons, DRE, and myself. I feel that the addition of this resource has completely changed our liturgies and our parish for the better.Anthony Gallina, Music and Liturgy Director, St. Wendelin Parish, Fostoria, OH