The Liturgy Animation Team
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The subject of the liturgical celebration is the community gathered in assembly.
The parish must have a team of Christians who collaborate with their pastor in caring for and
to animate
the liturgical life of the community. (OGMR 313)
Over time, it must grow in the ability to work in groups, in study and training, in
faith and prayer.
It would be ideal for each community to have several liturgical teams coordinated with each other.
The members should not be too many. But an open invitation should be made for everyone.
those that
they wish to collaborate in various liturgical services.
It brings together presbyters and deacons, guides, readers, animators, acolytes, those responsible for welcoming
the faithful,
extraordinary ministers of communion, sacristan, singers and musicians, those who clean and
they decorate the temple.
Two dangers or temptations: elitism (a group of initiates using specialized vocabulary) and
immediacy (to meet only to hurriedly prepare for the next celebration).
QUALITIES AND ATTITUDES OF THE MEMBERS:
Community service: availability, not acting on one's own behalf but for the good of the community.
community.
Spirit of communion: since the celebrations are the realization and manifestation (sacrament) of
the communion should not be lesser than its preparation and animation.
Liturgical sensitivity: having a sense of God, striving to live and understand the
celebrations, knowing how to pray in community.
Be participants before being animators.
Get to know the community: its way of being, its achievements and tensions, its problems and its
expectations, with your language...
Wanting to improve the quality of celebrations: good will is not enough, it is necessary
to seek to fulfill one's own functions in the best possible way.
Testimony of Christian life: being known and accepted as believers who try to live.
faithfully on their faith.
The team's most important task is for the community to be able to develop a liturgical life.
full and authentic.
Basic actions:
Preparation of the celebrations
---- . realization of the celebrations
---- the liturgical education of the community
---- the liturgical formation of the team
Tasks inward:
To provoke a pastoral dialogue from the Word of God.
Study the liturgical directives of the universal and local Church.
Evaluate the celebrations and the participation in the ministries.
Plan the liturgical year organically with the other pastoral areas.
Tasks outward:
Call readers, animators, guides, singers, musicians.
Promote liturgical education.
Ensure the development of community celebrations.
Help the growth of liturgical animators (courses)
Christianize popular, civic, family festivities...
MEETINGS: SOME GUIDELINES:
---- + Sentence
---- + Review the latest celebrations
---- + Consider the celebration as a whole (understand the festivity, its relation to the
liturgical time, etc.)
---- + Analyze the texts and the sentences
---- + Prepare the services: choose the hymns, the texts, write the scripts, think about the
setting...
---- + Distribute the tasks for the celebration
OBSERVATIONS:
Bring the necessary material to the meeting already prepared for work.
to meet regularly
Be punctual to start and to finish
prevent some people from monopolizing the conversation
---- do not stray from the topic without a reasonable motive (anecdotes, personal venting...)
---- . note what is being done
---- . do not forget that they are at the service of the community
THE ANIMATION:
It is the reason for the team's existence.
The actions of the different services must be coordinated and harmonized. Each server must
carry out your function with responsibility, simplicity, and dignity.
It is necessary to pay attention to the needs and rhythms of the assembly to harmonize them with
the celebration.
Seek the authenticity of signs, words, and rituals.
REVISIONS:
At least annually, the team must meet to review their way of meeting, of encouraging,
the results of their actions, both on their members and on the community.
THE LITURGICAL TRAINING OF THE TEAM:
Liturgical formation is a right and a necessity for every baptized person (SC 14; GE 2).
The celebration is a true school of prayer and Christian life.
Objectives:
Guide Christian life towards Christ.
Educate the awareness of belonging to the Church, to a community and assembly.
Learn the symbolic language and express yourself with it.
CHARACTERISTICS:
It should have a theoretical basis
---- + Experiential: liturgy is fundamentally learned by celebrating (SC 33)
---- + Permanent: it must last throughout the life of the Christian
---- + Progressive (cyclical spiral return of the liturgical Year)
RECOMMENDED BIBLIOGRAPHY:
The liturgical animation team. Pastoral Liturgical Directory - Ed. PPC - Madrid, 1994
Basic Course in Liturgy - Archdiocesan Center for Distance Theology - Buenos Aires
Music, Liturgy and Pastoral - People of God Group - Ed. Bonum - Buenos Aires, 1991
The symphonic character of the liturgical celebration - CEA-SAL - Book Office - Buenos Aires, 1995
To live the Liturgy - J. Lebon - Ed. Verbo Divino - Estella, 1992
This article was originally prepared based on the recommended bibliography and to the
experience of the authors, for use by the School of Services and Ministries of the Diocese of
Viedma (Argentina).
