{"id":54157,"date":"2020-12-19T11:21:26","date_gmt":"2020-12-19T17:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=54157"},"modified":"2020-12-30T14:18:39","modified_gmt":"2020-12-30T20:18:39","slug":"cdw-note-on-the-sunday-of-the-word-of-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2020\/12\/19\/cdw-note-on-the-sunday-of-the-word-of-god\/","title":{"rendered":"CDW Note on the Sunday of the Word of God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today the daily Bulletin of the Holy See\u2019s Press Office contains a <a href=\"https:\/\/press.vatican.va\/content\/salastampa\/en\/bollettino\/pubblico\/2020\/12\/19\/201219a.html\">Note of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments on the Sunday of the Word of God<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This comes more than a year after Pope Francis published <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vatican.va\/content\/francesco\/en\/motu_proprio\/documents\/papa-francesco-motu-proprio-20190930_aperuit-illis.html\">Aperuit Illis<\/a><\/em>, a motu proprio instituting the Sunday of the Word of God. There was some\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/motu-proprio-establishes-a-sunday-of-the-word-of-god\/\">commentary<\/a> here on PrayTell on this new observance at that time and at the time of its first observance, at the start of 2020, I published a piece on <a href=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2020\/01\/22\/almost-obligatory-irish-contribution-to-the-sunday-of-the-word-of-god\/\">\u201calmost obligatory\u201d Irish contribution<\/a> to the observance.<\/p>\n<p>This new Note is to be welcomed, although one might wonder why it took fourteen months to be published after <em>Aperuit Illis<\/em>. Rather than providing liturgical texts or changes to the rubrics, helps parishes to mark the observance without changing the existing liturgical texts. At the end of the document, it explains that \u201cthe purpose of this Note is to help reawaken, in the light of the Sunday of the Word of God, an awareness of the importance of Sacred Scripture for our lives as believers\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>It makes ten points and can be read in a few minutes. I agree with the introduction\u2019s recommendation that the observance provides all of us with an \u201copportunity to reread some of the Church\u2019s documents and especially the <em>Praenotanda<\/em> of the <em>Ordo Lectionum Missae<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It promotes the use of the Book of Gospels, \u201cone of the ritual possibilities suitable for this Sunday could be the entrance procession with the Book of the Gospels or simply placing the Book of the Gospels on the altar.\u201d It stresses that the readings of the Mass from the Lectionary cycle must be respected and that other readings cannot be substituted for them.<\/p>\n<p>The importance of the beauty of the books used during the Liturgy of the Word are stressed and the CDW asks that \u201ccare be taken to ensure that these books are of a high quality and used properly. It is never appropriate to resort to leaflets, photocopies and other pastoral aids as a substitute for liturgical books.<sup>\u201d<\/sup> This is unfortunately the case in many places. Indeed, one of the silver linings of the COVD-19 crisis here in Ireland is that some parishes have stopped using these disposable Mass leaflets (other parishes, however, have simply printed more, so that fresh leaflets are available for each liturgy).<\/p>\n<p>One of the most memorable paragraphs is number 7 which speaks about the Ambo:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Because of the importance of the word of God, the Church invites us to pay special attention to the ambo from which it is proclaimed. It is not a functional piece of furniture, but a place that is in keeping with the dignity of the word of God, in correspondence with the altar: in fact, we speak of the table of God\u2019s word and the table of the Body of Christ, referring both to the ambo and especially to the altar. The ambo is reserved for the readings, the singing of the Responsorial Psalm and the Easter Proclamation (<em>Exsultet<\/em>); the homily and the intentions of the universal prayer can be delivered from it, while it is less appropriate to use it for commentaries, announcements or for directing singing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hopefully all of us will be able to mark the Sunday of the Word of God in a meaningful way (see the Irish Bishops\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicbishops.ie\/2020\/01\/14\/resources-for-sunday-of-the-word-of-god\/\">suggestions<\/a>) in our assemblies. Unfortunately, on January 24, 2021 many of us will still be struggling with the challenges of COVID-19. But it might be no harm for us to start thinking about the role of the Word of God in our liturgy as part of a new liturgical catechesis that will have to form part of our parish lives in 2021 as we see best how to attract people back to church after a year lost to liturgy during the lockdowns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today the daily Bulletin of the Holy See\u2019s Press Office contains a Note of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments on the Sunday of the Word of God. 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He has studied at Seton Hall University (BA, MDiv), the University of Notre Dame (MA), and St Vladimir\u2019s Orthodox Theological Seminary (MTh). He holds a Doctorate in Theology (Ph.D.) from St Patrick\u2019s College, Maynooth and is in the process of completing a second doctorate (D.D) in the Pontifical Facultad de Teolog\u00eda Redemptoris Mater in Callao, Peru. Neil has published a translation of the Confessio of St. Patrick: St. Patrick: His Confession and Other Works (Totowa, NJ, 2009), as well editing the third edition of Fredrick Edward Warren\u2019s The Liturgy and Ritual of the Celtic Church (Piscataway, NJ, 2010). In 2011 the University of Notre Dame Press published The Eucharist in Pre-Norman Ireland an adaptation of his doctoral thesis and in 2017 the Alcuin Club published his Liturgical Orientation: The Position of the President at the Eucharist. His articles have appeared in The Irish Theological Quarterly, New Blackfriars, The Furrow and Antiphon. He writes a monthly article on some aspect of the theology of Pope Francis in the Messenger of St. Anthony and blogs regularly at PrayTell.","url":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/author\/nxodonoghue\/"}]}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/640px-Parchment_manuscript_Book_of_Gospels._12th_cent.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54157","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\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54157"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54160,"href":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54157\/revisions\/54160"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}