Services

 

Consultations

Michael Prendergast and Anne McGuire are seasoned pastoral musicians, liturgists, clinicians, teachers and authors who are available as a consultant for parishes, deaneries/vicariates, or organizations. Michael and Anne can help you assess your liturgical, musical or pastoral needs.

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Workshops, Presentations, Evenings/Days of Reflection, Retreats

• Rediscover the Beauty of the Liturgy: Full, Conscious, and Active Participation
      exploring Desiderio Desideravi
      Synodality, Community, and Liturgy                     
   

• Liturgy, Hospitality, and the Communion of Saints 
   

• A walk through the Liturgical Year: music, ritual, environment
   

• Praying and Singing the Psalms: The Church's First Prayer
   

• What does it mean to be a liturgical Parish? 
   

• Liturgical Ministers at the Service of the Liturgy
   

• Saints for Liturgical Ministries: 
       Finding inspiration from two millennia of Holy Men and Women 
   

• By Your Holy Cross:
       Meditations on the Cross through texts, lives of holiness, art, and music 
   

• Celebrating Over Sixty Years of a Renewed Liturgy:
       The Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy
               still Meaningful since 1963
               still meaningful after all these years!
               Vatican II: Our North Star (Pope Leo XIV)
   

• Saints for Liturgical Ministries:
       Connecting the Holiness of the Saints with Ministries
       Serving the Liturgical Life of the Community
                   

•  Hospitality, Belonging, and the Saints of
       . . . your parish, deanery, diocese.
       . . . of the month, of the season, of specific ministries   
   

• Whose Music is it anyway? The Singing Assembly

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Training

• Training and Formation of Liturgical Ministers:

• Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion

• Readers

• Ministers of Hospitality/ushers and greeters

• Trainers of Altar Servers/MC's

• Sacristans

• Cantors / Pastoral Musicians

• Lay Leaders of Prayer

 

Ritual

Ritual demonstration, catechesis and mystagological reflection on the sacramental rites of the Church and the rites contained in the:

 

• Book of Blessings

• Rite of Baptism for Children

• Rites of Christian Initiation of Adults and appropriate adaptation for children

• Order of Christian Funerals

• Marriage

• Liturgies of the Paschal Triduum

• Sunday Celebrations in the Absence of a Priest

• Celebrations of the Word with or without the distribution of Holy Communion

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Vatican II

• Vatican II: How did we get here?

• The Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, Sacrosanctum Concilium

• Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation, Dei Verbum

• Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, Lumen Gentium

• Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World, Gaudium et Spes

• Overview of Decrees and Declarations…where do we go from here?