Liturgy Team

What is the Liturgy Team?

The Liturgy Team or Liturgy Commission is a group made up of believing individuals.

who generously provide their service to the community in its celebratory aspect.
As the Council tells us, they are aimed at 'working to make the sense of community flourish.'
parochial, especially in the common celebration of the parish mass” (SC 42). Its function is,
in general, to encourage parish liturgical life, that is, to prepare the celebrations in all the
aspectos: sacristán, ambientación, cantos, moniciones, petciones, lectores, ministros
extraordinary...

Functions of the Liturgy Team

The care of parish liturgical life:
This is the most important task of the Liturgy Team within the Parish: to prepare, to animate
and review the celebrations in sync with the Parish Priest. This encompasses various aspects.
a) Material elements: Ensure that the Parish has everything necessary for a
worthy celebration
a well-arranged, clean, orderly temple, with the proper conditions of light and hearing,
with an adequate distribution of the banks;
an appropriate presbytery, altar, ambo, sede;
• renewed, worthy, clean ornaments;
• books for the president, readers, choir, organists, for the headquarters, etc.
b) Find more members for the group and activities. The members of the Liturgy Team
They should be concerned with gradually increasing the liturgy group. This requires:
Search for and find people who are suitable for these services;
Help them understand and value their service; train them to do it well.
c) The creation of the liturgical assembly. The subject of the celebration is the assembly that gathers
to celebrate. Therefore, it must regain all its vitality. The constitution of a
liturgical assembly requires a whole pedagogy for the people gathered to take
awareness of belonging to a community. That is why the approach is important.
celebration, the atmosphere that is created, the preparatory introduction to the celebration, the

warnings, etc.
d) The development of the celebration. To ensure that the liturgical life of the Parish develops
the commission should seek in an appropriate manner:

Let the routine and inertia be overcome. Do not always sing the same songs; let each Sunday mass
have several monitors and readers that change, one day one and another day another; highlight some
aspect of the Eucharist, etc.
• That the celebration encompasses and expresses the life of the parish, archpriesthood, and diocesan community with

your concerns, your needs, your aspirations.

That the celebration responds to the problems, needs, sufferings, and joys of today's man.
and of the people. In the universal prayer, there should always be some problem, need, or joy of
said assembly.
That in the celebrations an equilibrium be sought between community action and participation.
individual, between silence and word, balance between the observance of liturgical norms and the
creativity and adaptation to the specific community. It is possible to approach, 'translate' the symbol, but with the
be careful not to allegorize everything.

The liturgical education of the Parish

In addition to educating itself, the Liturgy Team must seek to educate liturgically the
parish community
that knows the meaning of the various celebrations, especially of the Eucharist,
that understand the liturgical language, the deep content of the gestures, etc.
First of all, do not forget the educational task that can be carried out through the monitions to
guide the people in their participation, help them enter the celebration by understanding the rituals,
giving meaning to gestures, creating an atmosphere of prayer and reflection.
Preparation of the celebrations
This is one of the most specific tasks to be carried out in the Parish. The preparation of a celebration.
demand
• Set the tone of the celebration well: Ensure that everyone who is going to participate in the celebration knows

What is going to be celebrated and why. Not all celebrations are the same. A Sunday of is not the same.
Advent or Easter one.
Prepare everything necessary for the celebration. The material elements (the bread, the wine...)
elements of the Mass (prayers, prefaces, Eucharistic prayer, songs, psalms, etc.), the monitions,
scripts for the most complex celebrations intended for the president, monitor, readers, choir...
• Distribution. All this, and to avoid improvising at the last minute, it is advisable to distribute sufficiently

advance the various liturgical tasks and services.

 Conducting the celebrations
The celebration itself is the culmination and source, therefore, the most important aspect of the pastoral.

liturgical.
The Liturgy Team must be attentive to ensure that the celebrations do not fall on:
an empty formalism, that is, a liturgy where all the norms and laws are observed
liturgical but where there is a lack of life, warmth, prayer, inner participation.

A routine where the changing lives of people and the community are not expressed.
an action where only the president and some faithful participate while the people attend
passively as a mere spectator.
It will be advisable for the Liturgy Team to periodically review the celebrations of the
Parish to point out the deficiencies that are observed, the defects into which one may fall,
etc. to try to correct them and continue improving the parochial liturgical life.
 The function of a
coordinator of the
catechesis
The different functions of the coordinators
diocesan and parish catechesis
The service of coordinating catechesis is one of the demands of institutionalism.
ecclesial.

The Church seeks not only the efficacy of catechesis but above all, fidelity to the project.
divine of salvation. From this perspective, each ecclesial community is invited to review
the catechetical service, to update it according to the case and to live it in the light of Christ Himself.
Each particular church participates in its organization, by canonical provision (CIC, 775), its
delegation of catechesis that coordinates the training of catechists and catechumens at the level
diocesan in order to receive the sacraments of Christian initiation worthily.

And each parish has its team of catechists, likewise with a coordinator.

The parish coordinator

At the parish level, the catechesis coordinator will be appointed by the pastor, if there is one.
someone suitable; otherwise, it will be the parish priest himself who coordinates the catechesis.

The coordinators of the parish catechesis will be able to accompany

personally to the children and to the groups.

This allows us to constantly motivate the members of the catechetical process and have
clarity in the goals that are pursued.

The parish catechesis coordinators visualize the objective and communicate it to everyone.
the drive required for the effort not only not to decline but also to
increase.

In addition, it will keep all members of the catechist team informed about what
it happens and thus transmit a
serious organizational climate that expresses participation and shared responsibility.

The coordinator will strive to verify the knowledge, experience, expertise or the
skills of the members of the catechist team to place each one in the
most suitable place.

The coordinator will therefore promote the complementarity whereby each member contributes.
This coordinator will specifically have the following functions and/or responsibilities:
1.- Look for catechists who meet two conditions: Human and Christian.
a.- What human conditions? Psychological balance, ability to work in groups,
responsibility and sensitivity to social reality.
b.- What Christian conditions? Ability and willingness to communicate the experience of faith, life
ecclesial-sacramental tested, communion and dialogue with the priests, who knows and understands
apply the catechetical material.
2.- Update yourself by actively participating along with the other catechists in the activities.
format at the diocesan level.
3.- Be a bridge of communication between the Diocesan Delegation of catechesis and the group
parish of catechists.
4.- Organize a list of all the important activities to do and sort them accordingly.
the priorities. And from here, schedule the catechesis calendar taking into account
Count the school calendar of the children and ensure its compliance.
5.- Coordinate the schedules according to the availability of places and people.
6.- Ensure the care of teaching materials and the maintenance of cleanliness and order.
the catechesis classrooms.
7.- Send the invitations to the parents with the enrollment forms.
8.- It is necessary to carry out constant and critical monitoring of the action process in order to
to verify if it is on the right track to achieve the objectives of the catechetical plan.

The ongoing evaluation allows for assessing the path taken and providing feedback throughout.
I feel the process of pastoral action.
9.- Schedule regular meetings with parents to foster the
co-responsibility.
10.- Think about immediate preparation, from a liturgical point of view, for the
administration of the sacraments of confession, communion, and confirmation.
11.- Delimiting the competencies of catechists,
12.- Differentiate the training levels of catechists to assign groups.
13.- Search for auxiliary catechists in case of substitutions, but who have a minimum of
suitability.
14.- Promote the cohesion of catechists and catechumens with the parish reality, about
everything related to charitable action works.
15.- Ensure that each member of the catechetical team receives recognition that
deserves for their performance, as it allows them to strengthen their commitment to the team.
16.- Having the ability to manage conflicts. This is an indispensable task.
from the parish catechesis coordinator; therefore, he must be prepared to handle
intelligently the conflicts that arise in catechesis and with their
catechist companions.

These conflicts arise naturally because people have their own way of
to do, divergent feelings and desires.
17.- Evaluate, together with the catechists, at the end of each stage, what has been done. The evaluation must
It should also be a systematic and organized process that provides the catechist with elements.
Objectives to assess their performance, and this leads them to make decisions to improve their
labor.
18.- The coordinator, in addition to educating their catechumens in faith, can also have
indirect actions: Promote the vitality of the parish, detect vocations, facilitate the
approaching distant Catholics with the parish, stopping the advance of sects, etc..