{"id":11600,"date":"2011-09-26T11:26:36","date_gmt":"2011-09-26T16:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=11600"},"modified":"2013-05-13T10:18:54","modified_gmt":"2013-05-13T16:18:54","slug":"liturgy-first-on-the-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2011\/09\/26\/liturgy-first-on-the-agenda\/","title":{"rendered":"Liturgy: First on the Agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"

American priests are forming a new national organization, NCR reported on 9\/15<\/a>. Reasons cited by the leaders of the group include:\u00a0priests\u2019 senates and councils not providing an adequate forum, isolation, and the pressures of increasing work load because of the priest shortage.<\/p>\n

These priests have taken a constructive step. They have decided to support one another. They also hope to exercise leadership. They want to \u201chave a voice\u201d on the national level.<\/p>\n

Their most highly-favored objective\u00a0was named in this way:<\/p>\n

Full implementation of the vision and teachings of the Second Vatican Council with special emphasis on the primacy of the individual conscience, the status and participation of all the baptized, and the task of establishing a church where all believers will be treated as equals.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

They have announced a plan which sounds promising\u2014to spend the next four years celebrating the Second Vatican Council. They also plan to host a \u201cmajor convocation\u201d to be held next June at St. Leo University in Tampa, Florida, in honor of the fiftieth anniversary of Sacrosanctum Concilium<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The subject of the convocation will be\u2014you guessed it\u2014the liturgy.<\/p>\n

No one has asked me for advice. But if they did, I\u2019d suggest that they consider using the seven \u201cessential themes\u201d of the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, which I developed in my book, Liturgy: Sacrosanctum Concilium<\/em> <\/a>(Paulist Press, 2007), as a framework. They are:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Paschal Mystery<\/li>\n
  2. Liturgy as \u201cSummit and Source\u201d of the Church\u2019s Life<\/li>\n
  3. Full, Active, Conscious Participation<\/li>\n
  4. Ecclesiology<\/li>\n
  5. Inculturation<\/li>\n
  6. Renewal of the Books, Music, Art, and Artifacts of the Liturgy<\/li>\n
  7. Education and Formation for Liturgy<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    In my experience, #3 and 5 are generally the source of the liveliest discussion today, with 6 being the focus of the most practical work and\u00a0painful\u00a0disagreements. The presence of Christ in the liturgy is\u00a0key to\u00a0#2. The theological items on\u00a0this list, #1 and 4, are very interesting in my view, but #4 is\u00a0frequently ignored in favor of other sources of commentary on the nature of the Church, specifically Lumen Gentium and Gaudium et Spes.\u00a0#1 is an oft-affirmed theme which nonetheless could benefit from deeper exploration. In a way, the move toward mystagogy in the area of catechesis on liturgy (or from liturgy) — part of #7 — nods to #1. But I think the centrality of the\u00a0paschal mystery to liturgy\u00a0is\u00a0a great topic. Education and formation issues are very important, and an area of considerable interest today I think.<\/p>\n

    What I really hope they won’t<\/em> do is to focus the whole gathering\u00a0around contentious issues. These focus attention, but they can also drain energy and prove discouraging. Some time spent focussing on problems and controversies is necessary and important, but the liturgy is more than the sum of its controversies.<\/p>\n

    If you could have input into the agenda, what would you suggest?<\/p>\n

    I wish them well\u2026 And I\u2019d love to be a fly on the wall for that\u00a0meeting!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    A new organization of priests in the US is planning a convocation for next June. The topic–liturgy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[1081,11,25,32],"tags":[2198],"class_list":["post-11600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-reform","category-conferences-workshops-meetings","category-ordained-ministry","category-vatican-ii","tag-sacrosanctum-conciliium"],"yoast_head":"\nLiturgy: First on the Agenda - Home<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2011\/09\/26\/liturgy-first-on-the-agenda\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Liturgy: First on the Agenda - Home\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A new organization of priests in the US is planning a convocation for next June. The topic--liturgy.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2011\/09\/26\/liturgy-first-on-the-agenda\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Home\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2011-09-26T16:26:36+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2013-05-13T16:18:54+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/pt.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"411\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"90\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Rita Ferrone\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Rita Ferrone\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/index.php\\\/2011\\\/09\\\/26\\\/liturgy-first-on-the-agenda\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/index.php\\\/2011\\\/09\\\/26\\\/liturgy-first-on-the-agenda\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Rita Ferrone\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/78210653a63d9da37580a3edae6c1759\"},\"headline\":\"Liturgy: First on the Agenda\",\"datePublished\":\"2011-09-26T16:26:36+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2013-05-13T16:18:54+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/index.php\\\/2011\\\/09\\\/26\\\/liturgy-first-on-the-agenda\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":489,\"commentCount\":53,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/#organization\"},\"keywords\":[\"Sacrosanctum Conciliium\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Church Reform\",\"Conferences \\\/ Workshops \\\/ Meetings\",\"Ordained Ministry\",\"Vatican II\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/index.php\\\/2011\\\/09\\\/26\\\/liturgy-first-on-the-agenda\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/index.php\\\/2011\\\/09\\\/26\\\/liturgy-first-on-the-agenda\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/index.php\\\/2011\\\/09\\\/26\\\/liturgy-first-on-the-agenda\\\/\",\"name\":\"Liturgy: First on the Agenda - Home\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2011-09-26T16:26:36+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2013-05-13T16:18:54+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/index.php\\\/2011\\\/09\\\/26\\\/liturgy-first-on-the-agenda\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/index.php\\\/2011\\\/09\\\/26\\\/liturgy-first-on-the-agenda\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/index.php\\\/2011\\\/09\\\/26\\\/liturgy-first-on-the-agenda\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Liturgy: First on the Agenda\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/\",\"name\":\"Home\",\"description\":\"Worship, Wit & Wisdom\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Home\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2023\\\/09\\\/cropped-BlogHeaderFinal2.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2023\\\/09\\\/cropped-BlogHeaderFinal2.jpg\",\"width\":1340,\"height\":209,\"caption\":\"Home\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/78210653a63d9da37580a3edae6c1759\",\"name\":\"Rita Ferrone\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2024\\\/01\\\/Rita-Ferrone-CWP-still-2-96x96.jpg?crop=1\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2024\\\/01\\\/Rita-Ferrone-CWP-still-2-96x96.jpg?crop=1\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2024\\\/01\\\/Rita-Ferrone-CWP-still-2-96x96.jpg?crop=1\",\"caption\":\"Rita Ferrone\"},\"description\":\"Rita Ferrone is an award-winning writer and frequent speaker on issues of liturgy and church renewal in the Roman Catholic tradition. She is currently a contributing writer and columnist for Commonweal magazine and an independent scholar. The author of several books about liturgy, she is most widely known for her commentary on Sacrosanctum Concilium (Liturgy: Sacrosanctum Concilium, Paulist Press). Her most recent book, Pastoral Guide to Pope Francis's Desiderio Desideravi, was published by Liturgical Press.\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/index.php\\\/author\\\/rferrone\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Liturgy: First on the Agenda - Home","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2011\/09\/26\/liturgy-first-on-the-agenda\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Liturgy: First on the Agenda - Home","og_description":"A new organization of priests in the US is planning a convocation for next June. The topic--liturgy.","og_url":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2011\/09\/26\/liturgy-first-on-the-agenda\/","og_site_name":"Home","article_published_time":"2011-09-26T16:26:36+00:00","article_modified_time":"2013-05-13T16:18:54+00:00","og_image":[{"width":411,"height":90,"url":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/pt.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Rita Ferrone","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Rita Ferrone","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2011\/09\/26\/liturgy-first-on-the-agenda\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2011\/09\/26\/liturgy-first-on-the-agenda\/"},"author":{"name":"Rita Ferrone","@id":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/#\/schema\/person\/78210653a63d9da37580a3edae6c1759"},"headline":"Liturgy: First on the Agenda","datePublished":"2011-09-26T16:26:36+00:00","dateModified":"2013-05-13T16:18:54+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2011\/09\/26\/liturgy-first-on-the-agenda\/"},"wordCount":489,"commentCount":53,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/#organization"},"keywords":["Sacrosanctum Conciliium"],"articleSection":["Church Reform","Conferences \/ Workshops \/ Meetings","Ordained Ministry","Vatican II"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2011\/09\/26\/liturgy-first-on-the-agenda\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2011\/09\/26\/liturgy-first-on-the-agenda\/","url":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2011\/09\/26\/liturgy-first-on-the-agenda\/","name":"Liturgy: First on the Agenda - Home","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/#website"},"datePublished":"2011-09-26T16:26:36+00:00","dateModified":"2013-05-13T16:18:54+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2011\/09\/26\/liturgy-first-on-the-agenda\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2011\/09\/26\/liturgy-first-on-the-agenda\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2011\/09\/26\/liturgy-first-on-the-agenda\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Liturgy: First on the Agenda"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/","name":"Home","description":"Worship, Wit & Wisdom","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/#organization","name":"Home","url":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/cropped-BlogHeaderFinal2.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/cropped-BlogHeaderFinal2.jpg","width":1340,"height":209,"caption":"Home"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/#\/schema\/person\/78210653a63d9da37580a3edae6c1759","name":"Rita Ferrone","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Rita-Ferrone-CWP-still-2-96x96.jpg?crop=1","url":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Rita-Ferrone-CWP-still-2-96x96.jpg?crop=1","contentUrl":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Rita-Ferrone-CWP-still-2-96x96.jpg?crop=1","caption":"Rita Ferrone"},"description":"Rita Ferrone is an award-winning writer and frequent speaker on issues of liturgy and church renewal in the Roman Catholic tradition. She is currently a contributing writer and columnist for Commonweal magazine and an independent scholar. The author of several books about liturgy, she is most widely known for her commentary on Sacrosanctum Concilium (Liturgy: Sacrosanctum Concilium, Paulist Press). Her most recent book, Pastoral Guide to Pope Francis's Desiderio Desideravi, was published by Liturgical Press.","url":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/author\/rferrone\/"}]}},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11600"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19393,"href":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11600\/revisions\/19393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}