Public Resources

Liturgical Planning Aids

Liturgy Preparation Aid for the Seasons of Advent and Christmas, Year C (2018): ENGLISH | ESPAÑOL

a full presider text for a Rite of Reconciliation of Several Penitents with Individual Confession and Absolution
Readings
Alternate Readings
Sample Penances
Music Suggestions
A list of Lectionary citations for Sundays and Solemnities
A Liturgical Calendar Advisory for Advent and Christmas
The Christmas Proclamation
The Announcement of the Dates of Easter and the Movable Feasts (to be proclaimed on Epiphany)

"In Every Age, O Lord, You Have Been Our Refuge" - Liturgies and Prayers in Response to Recent Events (August 2018): ENGLISH | ESPAÑOL

Lent / The Paschal Triduum / Easter Preparation Aid, Year B (2018): ENGLISH | ESPAÑOL

Liturgy Preparation Aid for the Seasons of Advent and Christmas, Year B (2017): ENGLISH

Planning Sheets

Morning Prayer

Morning Prayer and a Eucharistic Liturgy

Mid-Day Prayer

Evening Prayer and a Eucharistic Liturgy

Preparation of Mass

The Order of Mass

Liturgical Ministers

A Celebration of the Word

A Penance Service for Advent 2013

A Liturgy Preparation Aid for the Seasons of Advent and Christmas 2014

A Liturgy Preparation Aid for Lent, The Sacred Paschal Triduum, and the Easter Season 2014

A Liturgy Preparation Aid for Lent, The Sacred Paschal Triduum, and the Easter Season 2015

Service of the Light/Lucernarium

Prayer Services and Intercessions

For Immigrants, Migrants, and National Unity

The Season of Lent, the Sacred Paschal Triduum and Easter Time

The season of Lent began on Wednesday, March 1, 2017 with the celebration of Ash Wednesday and the FDLC is pleased to provide a preparation aid for the seasons of Lent, the Sacred Paschal Triduum, and Easter Time to assist diocesan and parish personnel. Please click here for the preparation aid in Spanish. It contains:

a) A Lenten Message from Pope Francis

b) A complete presider’s text for the Rite of Reconciliation of Several Penitents with Individual Confession and Absolution

o Readings

o Alternate Readings

o Sample Penances

o Music Suggestions

c) Frequently-asked Questions and their answers

d) A Liturgical Calendar Advisory for Lent, Triduum, and the Easter Season

e) Lectionary for Mass – Year A (citations for the Sundays and Solemnities)

f) Preparation Worksheets for the Sacred Paschal Triduum

g) Evening Prayer for Easter Sunday

h) Links to additional Examinations of Conscience from the USCCB

Feel free to distribute this to your parishes and schools within your dioceses. This is a gift from the Federation of Diocesan Liturgical Commissions.

We remain grateful to the Confraternity for Christian Doctrine (CCD), the International Commission on English in the Liturgy (ICEL), and the Editrice Libreria Vaticana for their kind permission to include their copyrighted material.

Mystagogical Reflections on the Texts of the Roman Missal, Third Edition

Welcome! This free service is from the Federation of Diocesan Liturgical Commissions (FDLC). It established an Ad Hoc Committee for Mystagogical Reflection of the texts and implementation of the Roman Missal, Third Edition following the national meeting of 2010. The first project offered reflections in a mystagogical style on the Collects for the Sundays and Holydays of the Liturgical Year of Grace 2013. In this current year 2013-2014, the focus is on the Prayer after Communion as well as completing the rest of the Collects that may occur on a Sunday or Holyday or other Solemnity.

The FDLC hopes both member and non-member diocesan offices and commissions will post these weekly one-page reflections on diocesan websites as well as make them available for parishes and institutions to post or print in local sites and publications. Although these reflections include copyrighted texts of ICEL (used with permission of the USCCB Committee for Divine Worship) and are the copyrighted work of the FDLC, you are free to share and to reproduce them as long as they are not bought or sold.

We welcome your comments and suggestions on this project. Please send them to the FDLC ad hoc Committee on Mystagogy, care of Sr. Sharon Marie Stola, OSB, chair, at sstola@dioceseofjoliet.org or FAX to (815) 838-8129.