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Sunday Without Eucharist |
Updated: 1 January 1999
Present Interests
Anticipating an increased shortage of Roman Catholic presbyters and an increased need for lay leadership of Sunday worship, I made a survey of practices in this regard around the world. This provided insights and specific practices that were useful in guiding this development in Canada in the 1980s. I also composed or helped to compose liturgical books for this situation, until an official, national liturgical book appeared in 1995. For a number of years I taught in this area and trained lay presiders and preachers. However, I am no longer working in this area.
Previous Publications
- Sunday Celebrations Animated by Lay People:
A Report on Current Practices Around the World
Edmonton: The Author 1980, 77 pp - When Lay People Preside at Sunday Worship
Worship, vol. 58, no. 2 (March 1984) 108-117 - Priestless Sundays: What Are the Questions?
Liturgy 80 (Chicago), vol. 19, no. 3 (April 1988) 7-11
Preparing to Preach: An Introduction for Lay Preachers
Ottawa: Novalis 1990, 32 pp - Preparing to Preside: An Introduction for Lay Presiders
Ottawa: Novalis 1990, 32 pp - Differences Between the Eucharist and Liturgies of the Word plus
Holy Communion
National Bulletin on Liturgy, vol. 23, no. 123 (December 1990) 246-252 - First Communion and Sunday Celebration in the Absence of a Priest
National Bulletin on Liturgy, vol. 25, no. 129 (Summer 1992) 92-94 - Lay Leadership, Parish Spirituality, and Liturgical Celebration
liturgical ministry vol. 3 (Summer 1994) 112-116 - Sunday Celebrations of the Word [theme of issue]
National Bulletin on Liturgy, vol. 27, no. 139 (Wionter 1994) - Sunday Worship Without a Priest in Times Past
National Bulletin on Liturgy, vol. 29, no. 145 (Summer 1996) 126-128
Liturgical Books
- God's Word - Thanksgiving - Communion, with Laypersons Presiding
Prepared for the Western Liturgical Conference
Regina: Archdiocesan Liturgical Commission 1981, 48 pp
(I was a member of the editorial committee that prepared this liturgical book.) - Liturgies with Lay Presiders
Edmonton: Archdiocesan Liturgical Commission 1988, 139 pp
(I was editor of this liturgical book.)