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Present Interests
For several years I served on the Consultation on Common Texts (CCT), representing both the International Commission on English in the Liturgy and the National Liturgical Office of the Canadian Roman Catholic bishops. One of the CCT projects in which I took a particular interest was the preparation of an ecumenical liturgy of marriage.
As part of this project, I studied not only the marriage liturgies of several churches, but also those of various parts of the Roman Catholic world. This information, plus study of the published literature on this liturgy, helped me envision possible improvements.
More recently I was a member of a small committee asked by the episcopal commission for liturgy to draft a new liturgy of marriage for English-speaking Roman Catholics in Canada. In early 1997 we submitted a 400-page draft. I also had the opportunity to publish an extensive description and summary of this "proposed order of Christian marriage." I await the eventual publication of this work.
Previous Publications
- A Christian Celebration of Marriage: An Ecumenical Liturgy
Prepared by the Consultation on Common Texts
Philadelphia: Fortress Press 1987) 32 pp
(I was a member of the subcommittee that drafted this liturgical book.) - A Christian Celebration of Marriage: An Ecumenical Liturgy
in G. Farnedi, ed.
Le Celebrazione Cristiana del Matrimonio: Simboli et Testi.
Atti del II Congresso Internazionale di Liturgica, Roma 1984
Roma: Studia Anselmiana 93, Analecta Liturgica 11, 1986, 375-385 - Celebrating Marriage [theme of issue]
National Bulletin on Liturgy, vol. 21, no. 115 (December 1988) - Celebrating Marriage: A Videotape [script]
Liturgy Commission of the Archdiocese of Edmonton (1989) - Celebrating Marriage: A Planning Guide
Liturgy Commission of the Archdiocese of Edmonton (1989), 104 pp - Proposed Order of Christian Marriage
National Bulletin on Liturgy, vol. 31, no. 155 (Winter 1998) 197-232