PREPARING THE PARISHIONERS FOR AN UNDERSTANDING AND EXPERIENCE OF THE NEW ROMAN MISSAL 3RD EDITION FOR A SMOOTH LITURGICAL TRANSITION THIS ADVENT...........

Having opened our Sunday Mass preview and practice of the new Mass texts that are put being put into effect by the promulgation of the New Roman Missal 3rd Edition, on the 1st Sunday of Advent, November 27, at yesterday's Masses to be continued until Advent; tonight we will start a two and a half month, adult faith formation series, 'Faith Seeking Understanding' : "Roman Missal 3rd Edition Revised Mass Texts", in the OLOL Parish Hall at 6:30 p.m.  All parishioners are invited to attend, as we prepare for the verbal changes in the celebration of the Mass that will be required of all of us, as we go forward in celebrating the Sacred Liturgy.  Among the topics we will be discussing are - Why and How Have The Mass Texts Been Revised ?; The Introductory Rites; The Gloria and the Liturgy of the Word; The Profession of Faith; The Liturgy of the Eucharist; The Eucharistic Prayer; The Mystery of Faith; The Communion and the Concluding Rites.  We will be using a booklet authored by Reverend Father Paul Turner, a priest of the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph, and will address the, "New Words... (and) Deeper Meaning, (of the) Same Mass".  An insightful experience of how and why we will be undergoing these changes should be the result for the parishioners who turn out for this preparatory series.  Hoping to see an appreciable cross section of parishioners present, for this essential series in readiness for the Revised Mass Texts of the new Roman Missal 3rd Edition, we offer this vital Teaching...........In Christ Jesus Whose Paschal Mystery We Celebrate And Renew At Every Mass,   Fr.  Troy