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Introduction: What Is Pastoral Liturgies? | p. 1 |
Liturgy-A Practical Science | p. 3 |
Why do we worship? | p. 3 |
What is liturgy? | p. 5 |
What does it mean to do liturgy "decently and in order"? | p. 6 |
How do we discern meaning in liturgy? | p. 10 |
How is the people's work the work of God? | p. 13 |
History and Culture | p. 17 |
What are the main periods of liturgical history? | p. 17 |
What characterizes liturgy in each of these periods? | p. 24 |
How does liturgy relate to culture in each of these periods? | p. 31 |
What are the strategies of relating liturgy to culture? | p. 38 |
How does inculturation work? | p. 40 |
The Principal Order of Service | p. 43 |
What are the names of the principal order of service? | p. 43 |
How did this order develop throughout history? | p. 44 |
What is the lectionary and how does it work? | p. 64 |
What are the parts of a eucharistic prayer? | p. 67 |
What is the difference between a "High Mass" and a "Low Mass"? | p. 71 |
The Liturgy of Time | p. 75 |
What does it mean to sanctify time? | p. 75 |
Where did the liturgy of the hours come from? | p. 76 |
What's the difference between cathedral and monastic prayer offices? | p. 78 |
How did the liturgy of the hours develop throughout history? | p. 81 |
How might daily prayer offices become daily once again? | p. 94 |
The Church-Year Calendar | p. 97 |
What is the fixed day of Christian worship? | p. 97 |
What are the principal festivals and seasons? | p. 99 |
What are the lesser festivals, days of devotion, and commemorations? | p. 102 |
What do we do the rest of the time? | p. 104 |
What is the difference between a feast and a fast? | p. 104 |
The Church Year: Advent through Lent | p. 107 |
Advent: Why do we begin at the end? | p. 107 |
Christmas: What are the options for celebration? | p. 113 |
The Epiphany: What are the riches of the observance? | p. 119 |
Time after the Epiphany: Is there an Epiphany season? | p. 122 |
Ash Wednesday and Lent: How do we practice penitence and catechesis? | p. 123 |
The Church Year: Holy Week | p. 127 |
How did the rites of Holy Week develop? | p. 127 |
Palm/Passion Sunday: What is the relationship between palms and the passion? | p. 130 |
Maundy Thursday: What is the relationship between foot washing and the Lord's Supper? | p. 131 |
Good Friday: What is the difference between liturgy and paraliturgical devotions? | p. 133 |
Holy Saturday: How might the Great Vigil be structured? | p. 136 |
The Church Year: Easter and Beyond | p. 141 |
Easter: How can a fifty-day celebration be maintained? | p. 141 |
Pentecost: What happens on "the last and great day" of the feast? | p. 144 |
Time after Pentecost: Should lesser festivals replace Sundays? | p. 145 |
The Sanctoral Cycle: How do we commemorate the faithful departed? | p. 148 |
Christ the King: How does the church year end? | p. 154 |
Life Passages | p. 157 |
How does the church make new Christians? | p. 157 |
How do Christians affirm and live out their baptism? | p. 164 |
How does the church make ministers? | p. 167 |
How does the church solemnize marriages? | p. 169 |
How does the church militant transfer members to the church triumphant? | p. 172 |
The Liturgical Arts | p. 177 |
What are "psalms and hymns and spiritual songs"? | p. 177 |
How are hymns and other music selected for worship? | p. 182 |
What is the role of bells? | p. 183 |
How is the liturgical space arranged? | p. 184 |
What do ministers wear for the liturgy? | p. 186 |
Participation in Worship | p. 189 |
How is the body used in worship? | p. 189 |
What are some standard ceremonies in the Western liturgical tradition? | p. 195 |
How do processions facilitate popular participation? | p. 200 |
What should the people have to support their participation? | p. 204 |
How are children formed into the liturgy? | p. 206 |
Afterword: In Lieu of a Bibliography of Current Denominational Worship Books | p. 211 |
Chronology of Events and Documents | p. 213 |
Glossary of Liturgical Terms | p. 223 |
Notes | p. 231 |
Index | p. 241 |
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