Paul Turner - Let Us Pray: A Guide to the Rubrics of Sunday Mass

Paul Turner

Let Us Pray

A Guide to the Rubrics of Sunday Mass Updated to Conform with the
Revised English Translation of
The Roman Missal

A PUEBLO BOOK

Liturgical Press Collegeville, Minnesota

A Pueblo Book published by Liturgical Press

Cover layout by David Manahan, O.S.B.

Cover illustration by Frank Kacmarcik, OBL.S.B.

Excerpts from the English translation of the Introduction to Lectionary for Mass 1969, 1981, 1997, International Commission on English in the Liturgy Corporation (ICEL); excerpts from the English translation of Sacrosanctum Concilium and Directory for Masses with Children from Documents on the Liturgy, 1963-1979: Conciliar, Papal and Curial Texts 1982, ICEL; excerpts from the English translation of Book of Blessings 1988, ICEL; excerpt from the English translation of Ceremonial of Bishops 1989, ICEL; excerpts from the English translation of The Roman Missal 2010, ICEL. All rights reserved.

Excerpts from Built of Living Stones: Art, Architecture and Worship 2000, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB); excerpts from Norms for the Distribution and Reception of Holy Communion under Both Kinds 2002, USCCB; excerpts from the Missale Romanum Typis Vaticanis, 2002; excerpts from the Ordo Missae 2002, Typis Vaticanis.

2012 by Order of Saint Benedict, Collegeville, Minnesota. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, by print, microfilm, microfiche, mechanical recording, photocopying, translation, or by any other means, known or yet unknown, for any purpose except brief quotations in reviews, without the previous written permission of Liturgical Press, Saint Johns Abbey, P.O. Box 7500, Collegeville, MN 56321-7500. Printed in the United States of America.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Turner, Paul, 1953

Let us pray : a guide to the rubrics of Sunday Mass / Paul Turner.

pages cm

A Pueblo Book.

Updated to Conform with the Revised English Translation of the Roman Missal.

ISBN 978-0-8146-6270-0 ISBN 978-0-8146-6295-3 (e-book)

1. MassHandbooks, manuals, etc. 2. Catholic ChurchLiturgyHandbooks, manuals, etc. I. Title.

BX2230.3.T87 2012

264.02036dc23

2012016855

Dedication

AD MEMORIAM

ROBERTI J. THOMPSON

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SEMINARIORVM IN SCHOLIS

TEMPLISQVE PARCIARVM

DICESIVM ETIAM IN OFFICIIS

DE RE LITVRGICA CVM POPVLO

EST OPERATVS

QVI

LOQVENDO DOCENDO SCRIBENDO

MVLTITVDINES PERMOVIT

ET QVI

AVCTOREM IPSVM ACCEPIT IN AMICVM

EXCOLENDO ILLIVS AMORE

FIDELIS CVLTVS AC PLANE PASTORALIS

IN SPIRITV ET VERITATE

Contents

Making judgmentsThe documentsLocal variationsLiturgical theologyHistorical precedentScriptural influenceCultural sensitivityCourtesy and common senseVariety and constancy in the MassBefore MassThe gathering of the peopleThe assemblyArrivingSeatingSittingSeating for ministersFurnitureSanctuaryAltarAmboChairOther featuresBooksVestureVesselsClothsCredence tableCrossCandlesFlowersTabernacleOther objectsEntrance chantThe songLeading the songOther mattersProcessionOrder of processionReverencing the altarBows and genuflectionsPlacement of objectsKissing the altarIncensing the cross and the altarGoing to seatsSign of the crossGreetingIntroductionContentMinisterLocationPenitential actBlessing and sprinkling of water Glory to God Changes to the Introductory RitesCollectChoice of readingsIntroduction to the Liturgy of the WordReaderGoing to the amboProclaiming the readingsHearing the readingsConcluding the readingsFirst readingResponsorial psalmSecond readingSequenceGospel acclamationActions during the gospel acclamationProcessionGospelHomilyDismissal of catechumensCreedUniversal PrayerPurpose and natureMinistriesLocationIntentionsResponseConcluding prayerPreliminariesOffertory chantCollectionPreparing the altarProcession of the giftsGiftsBreadAppearanceHostsSizeQuantity and vesselsWineProcessionPreparation of the giftsReceiving the giftsTaking the breadAdding waterTaking the cupPrivate prayerIncensing the giftsWashing handsInvitation and responsePrayer over the offeringsEucharistic PrayerMeaningIntroductionChoice of prayerSingingStructureDialoguePreface Holy, Holy, Holy Transition: Prayer I from the Holy, Holy, Holy to the institution narrativeTransition: Other Eucharistic Prayers from the Holy, Holy, Holy to the institution narrativeInstitution narrative and consecrationMemorial acclamationAnamnesis and oblationIntercessionsFinal doxologyCommunion riteLords PrayerRite of peacePrayer to ChristGreeting of peaceSign of peaceBreaking BreadFraction Lamb of God Communion from the tabernaclePostureThe priests CommunionPreparationBehold the Lamb of GodImmediate preparation and the Body of ChristImmediate preparation and the Blood of ChristCommunion chantDeacons CommunionExtraordinary ministers of Holy CommunionCommunion of the faithfulBoth kindsProcessionThe Body of ChristThe Blood of ChristIntinction, tube, spoonBlessingsReturning to seatsAfter CommunionCommunion to the sick and homeboundConsuming the remainsRepositionPurificationThanksgivingPrayer after CommunionAnnouncementsBlessingDismissalRecessionSome specific issuesShadows of the previous MissalOffertory and preparation of the giftsStanding for the Eucharistic PrayerSign of peaceCommunion under both kindsExtraordinary ministers of Holy CommunionPreparing for liturgySome general mattersAbusesThe nature of rubrics

Acknowledgments

I wish to thank

Gabe Huck, who planted

litnetwk@listserv.nd.edu, which posted

Paul Ford, who juxtaposed

Sandra Dooley, Steve Janco, and James Field, who watered

Ken Martin, who furrowed

John Thomas, who farmed

Mark Twomey, who harvested

Jesus, who gave thanks

P. T.

Abbreviations

BB	Book of Blessings (Vatican City, 1984; U.S., 1989)
BLS	Built of Living Stones: Art, Architecture and Worship (Washington, D.C., 2000)
CB	Ceremonial of Bishops (Vatican City, 1984; U.S., 1989)
CDWDS	Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments
DMC	Directory for Masses with Children (Vatican City, 1973; U.S., 1974)
GIRM	The General Instruction of the Roman Missal (Vatican City, 2002; U.S., 2003)
IOM	Introduction to the Order of Mass: A Pastoral Resource of the Bishops Committee on the Liturgy (Washington, D.C., 2003)
LG	Lumen Gentium (Vatican II, Dogmatic Constitution on the Church)
LM	Introduction to the Lectionary for Mass (Vatican City, 1981; U.S., 1998)
LMC	Introduction, Lectionary for Masses with Children (U.S., 1993)
NDR	Norms for the Distribution and Reception of Holy Communion under Both Kinds in the Dioceses of the United States of America (Washington, D.C., 2002)
OM	The Order of Mass (Ordo Missae) (Vatican City, 2002)
PCS	Pastoral Care of the Sick: Rites of Anointing and Viaticum (Vatican City, 1972; U.S., 1983)
RCIA	Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (Vatican City, 1972; U.S., 1988)
RM	Roman Missal ( Missale Romanum ) (Vatican City, 2002)
RS

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