The document discusses viewing the new Roman Missal through the lens of evangelization. It summarizes the key parts of the Mass and how they relate to evangelization, including: 1) The introductory rites call people to conversion. 2) The Liturgy of the Word includes accepting the creed and responding to scripture through offerings. 3) Communion is a response to accepting the challenge to take up one's cross daily. 4) The dismissal is a commitment to live one's faith in the world through mission and discipleship. The document emphasizes that the Mass forms an interactive, evangelizing experience that calls people to deeper conversion and commitment to living as the

1. The Evangelizing Community
A DIFFERENT LENS
WITH WHICH TO VIEW
THE NEW ROMAN MISSAL
Father Tim Keeney Saint Anne Catholic Church November 2011

2. Basic Gospel
 We are all about the death and resurrection of
Jesus
 How we participate in his death and
resurrection is the story of our spiritual lives
 Our identity with Christ is accomplished and
sealed by the Holy Spirit

3. The Paschal Mystery
 All ministry helps people experience the
Paschal Mystery—the death and
resurrection of Christ
 All ministry takes place in the dynamics of
the Trinity—love and self-gift for the sake of
the other
 Priests are, par excellence, ministers, and
by our baptism all are ministers through
our common priesthood

4. The Liturgy
We have to be aware of how:
 Liturgy is an asset for  The language of the New
people Roman Missal draws us
into a deeper
 In today’s culture
understanding of:
liturgy can
appear to be a The Gospel
liability Paschal Mystery
Mystery of the Trinity

5. A Useful Distinction
Worship
Liturgy Experience
 A standard ritual  A designed service
which everyone which can contain many
accepts that allows points of novelty and
people to enter it which attempts to induce
from many different certain emotions and
emotional and personal perspectives in the
perspectives participants

6. Distinction between Participants
Liturgy
Congregation
Each of us must be an
active participant
Worship Experience
Audience
Passive recipients of
what is being presented

7.  Different styles of
celebrating
 The words of the text
are starting points
needing a rhetoric to
communicate meaning
 The Mass is formed as a
THE series of calls and
responses between the
priest and the
MASS congregation

8. The Language of the New Missal
 Closer to the Latin
 More Poetic
 Draws upon ancient prayers of the
Church
 Emphasizes our humility before God
 Emphasizes the Holiness of God
 More Theological
 More Scriptural
 More unified with other languages

9. The Dynamics
The Eucharist is an interactive experience
that is fundamentally evangelizing:
we call people to conversion,
we celebrate commitment,
we send people forth.

10. The Eucharist is Interactive

11. The Introductory Rites
Greeting

12. The Introductory Rites
• HI
Penitential Act

13. The Introductory Rites
• HI
Penitential Act

14. The Introductory Rites
HI GLORIA
Gloria

15. The Introductory Rites
HI GLORIA
Gloria

16. The Introductory Rites
HI GLORIA
Gloria

17. The Liturgy of the Word
1ST Word and Response
THE FIRST RESPONSE
TO THE WORD OF GOD
IS THE RECITATION OF
THE CREED
“I ACCEPT, I BELIEVE”

18. The Liturgy of the Word
• HI GOSPEL
Gospel

19. The Liturgy of the Word
• HI GOSPEL
Gospel

20. The Creed
I believe in one God, the Father almighty,
maker of heaven and earth,
of all things visible and invisible.
I believe in one Lord Jesus Christ,
the Only Begotten Son of God,
born of the Father before all ages.
God from God, Light from Light,
true God from true God,
begotten, not made,
consubstantial with the Father,
through him all things were made.

21. The Creed
For us men and for our salvation
he came down from heaven,
and by the Holy Spirit
was incarnate of the Virgin Mary,
and became man.
For our sake he was
crucified under Pontius Pilate,
He suffered death and was buried,
and rose again on the third day,
in accordance with the Scriptures.

22. The Creed
He ascended into heaven and is seated
at the right hand of the Father.
He will come again in glory to judge
the living and the dead,
and his kingdom will have no end.
I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord,
the giver of life, who proceeds from the
Father and the Son, who with the Father
and the Son is ad0red and glorified,
who has spoken through the prophets.

23. The Creed
I believe in one, holy, catholic and
apostolic Church.
I confess one baptism for the
forgiveness of sins
and I look forward to
the resurrection of the dead and the
life of the world to come.
Amen

24. The Creed
Fides Quae…The content of
the articles of faith that I accept
Fides Qua…The act of faith by
which I accept not only the
content but the God who acts
in our lives

25. Faith
Beyond and through  Apostles Creed
the words, how do  Alternating
we help people sides recite the
see the Creed
fundamental act of  Renewal of
trust and acceptance baptism
the Creed expresses? promises

26. 2nd Word and
Response
THE SECOND
RESPONSE
TO THE WORD
OF GOD
IS AT THE
OFFERTORY The Offertory

27. The Offertory
I give myself, “By the mystery of this
we give water and wine may we
ourselves come to share
to God in in the divinity
response of Christ who
to humbled
The W O R D himself to
share in our
humanity.”

28. The Offertory
 Fruit of the earth
 Fruit of the vine
 Work of human hands

29. The Offertory
The Offertory is the GIFT OF ONE’S
SELF,
one’s resources, one’s being,
in response to the
LOVE OF GOD

30. The Offertory
 More radical than “tithing”
 More radical than “free will offering”
 More radical than “be generous”
with your resources
WE ARE ASKING CATHOLICS
TO GIVE THEMSELVES

31. The Offertory
We are not just asking
people to “support the
parish”(pay bills),
but to support the
Kingdom of God
which we believers
try to serve

32. The Offertory
WHAT IS GOD ASKING OF ME?
AM I NOT LIKE ABRAHAM, MOSES,
JEREMIAH, ESTHER, JUDITH,
TOBIT, PETER, JOHN, PAUL?

33. The Offertory
WILL I SAY “YES” TO GOD?

34. The Doxology
3rd Word and Response
The “GREAT AMEN” in
response to the
Doxology sums up the
aims of stewardship
and discipleship
expressed through the
Eucharistic Prayer

35. The Eucharistic Prayer
 The Doxology affirms the whole Eucharistic Prayer
 “Lift up your hearts” “Let us give thanks”
 Remembrance and re-enacting the gift of Christ of
himself in the Eucharist
 The gifts are consecrated; the givers of the gifts
are consecrated

36. Identity with Christ
 “May we become one
body, one spirit in Christ”
 “May he make of us an
eternal offering to you”

37. Identity with Christ
 “Grant in your loving
kindness to all who partake
of this one Bread and one
Chalice that. . . they may
truly become a living
sacrifice in Christ”
 “Holy Father, we humbly
beseech you to accept us
also, together with your Son”

38. The Liturgy of the Eucharist
hi
Orate, fratres

39. The Liturgy of the Eucharist
hi
Preface Dialogue

40. The sacrifice is not only the death of Jesus,
not only the elements that bring us into
unity with Jesus’ death and resurrection,
but also the people are identified with
Jesus’ eternal self-giving

41. The Memorial Acclamation
The Memorial Acclamation

42. The Memorial Acclamation
The Memorial Acclamation

43. The Doxology
“Through Him, with Him, in Him,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
all glory and honor is Yours,
almighty Father,
forever and ever.
Amen.”

44. The Doxology and Stewardship
 We make God the center of our lives
 We pledge God all glory (praise)
 We pledge God all honor (resources of
self and world)
 We center ourselves in the Trinity of
eternal life and love
 We anticipate the Kingdom, when all
creation reaches fulfillment

45. The Communion Rite
4th Word and Response
THE RECEPTION OF
COMMUNION
IS A RESPONSE TO
THE WORD OF GOD

46. The Communion Rite
I become Christ’s body
I live Christ’s life

47. The Communion Rite
 More than just a receiving of the Body of
Christ (passive)
 Also a commitment to become the Body of
Christ—on the part of the congregation and
on the part of the individual disciple (active)

48. The Communion Rite
Will I take to myself the body of Jesus?
The body that was broken?
Will I take his chalice to my lips?
The chalice that is shed for the life of all?
Will I live Christ’s death so I may live his life?
Will I live his life in the world?

49. The Communion Rite
lord I am
Behold the Lamb of God

50. The Communion Rite
Communion is our way of accepting
the challenge of Jesus,
“UNLESS YOU TAKE UP
YOUR CROSS EVERY DAY,
YOU CANNOT BE MY DISCIPLES”

51. The Concluding Rites
5th Word and Response
THE DISMISSAL IS OUR FINAL
RESPONSE TO THE WORD OF GOD

52. The Concluding Rites
Dismissal Commitment
“Go and announce “I will live my
the Gospel of faith in the
the Lord” world”

53. The Concluding Rites
 We are not church mice
 We are not monks
 We go forth into the world (world having both
good and bad meanings)
 We go forth to be Christ’s Body in the World

54. The Concluding Rites
hi
Dismissal

55. The Concluding Rites
Dismissal is our Dismissal is our
accepting the commitment to
fundamental live out the
idea of meaning of the
MISSION Mass
at the heart of throughout the
discipleship week as disciples-
family, work,
friendship, civic
life

56. Celebration
The problem of automatic pilot ~
priests and people “go through the
routine” and, worst of all, they
look like they are just going
through the routine

57. CELEBRATION
Celebrate the Mass as if it were your first Mass
Celebrate the Mass as if it were your last Mass
Celebrate the Mass as if it were your only Mass

58. At every Mass
 There are seekers
 There are people thinking about returning
 There are grieving people
 There are spiritually starving people
 There are people from groups that are
on the edge—young adults, parents

59. By my participation and
how I participate at Mass,
am I willing to be part of an
evangelizing community?