2.1. Christian Initiation
2.1.1. Baptism
2.1.2. Confirmation
2.1.3. First Eucharist / Communion of Infants
2.2. Eucharist
2.3. Penance/Reconciliation
2.4. Anointing of the Sick
2.5. Matrimony
2.6. Holy Orders
2.7. Funerals
2.8. Liturgical Day: Liturgy of the Hours
2.9. Liturgical Week: Sunday
2.10. Liturgical Year
2.11. Liturgical Music
2.12. Liturgical Art
Collins, Patrick. More
Than Meets the Eye: Ritual and Parish Liturgy. New York: Paulist Press, 1983.
Explores imagination and its “languages”/arts in the context of ritual worship.
Walton, Janet R. Art and Worship: A Vital Connection. Wilmington, DE: Michael Glazier, 1988.
Test-cases: Art in the worshiping communities of Dura Europos and Saint-Denis. Survey of Church teachings and needs and artists’ insights. Report on various contemporary worship experiences employing artists’ collaboration. Principles for partnership between artists and the Church: common goal, mutual respect, mutual reliance on experience, integration, discipline, leadership, trust, openness, patience, competence, just compensation, persistence.
2.13. Liturgical Architecture
2.14. Liturgical Law
Huels, John. Liturgical Law: An Introduction. American Essays in Liturgy, 4. Washington, DC: The Pastoral Press, 1987
Huels, John. Disputed Questions in the Liturgy Today. Chicago, IL: Liturgy Training Publications, 1988.
Huels, John. More Disputed Questions in the Liturgy. Chicago, IL: Liturgy Training Publications, 1996.
Richstatter,
Thomas. Liturgical Law Today:
New Style, New Spirit. Chicago,
IL: Franciscan Herald Press, 1977.
Seasoltz, R. Kevin. New Liturgy, New Laws. Collegeville, MN: The Liturgical Press, 1980.
Traces canonical developments in Roman Catholic liturgical law from 1946 through the implementation of the Second Vatican Council. Surveys and interprets present (1980) legislation. Clarifies the structures involved in official RC liturgical reform, processes of liturgical adaptation and indigenization, and the dialectic between law and pastoral need. [N.B. Written before the 1983 Code of Canon Law]
2.15. Feminist / Womanist / Mujerista Liturgy
Proctor-Smith, Marjorie, and Janet Walton. Women at Worship: Interpretations of North American Diversity. Louisville, KY: Westminster/John Knox Press.
Collection of essays, divided into Feminist Liturgical Principles, Critique on Traditional Worship, Critique on Emerging Feminist Ritual, Lingering Questions. Especially notable for Mary Collins’ “Principles of Feminist Liturgy” and Eileen King’s “A Lingering Question: What is Feminist Prayer?”
2.16. Liturgical Inculturation
Chupungco, Anscar. Cultural Adaptation of the Liturgy. New York: Paulist Press, 1982.
Presents short history of liturgical adaptation. Explicates in detail Sacrosanctum Concilium 37 – 40 as the “magna carta” of Roman Catholic liturgical adaptation. Outlines three principles of liturgical adaptation: theological, liturgical, and cultural.
Chupungco, Anscar. Liturgical Inculturation: Sacramentals, Religiosity, and Catechesis. Collegeville, MN: The Liturgical Press, 1992.
Defines terms associated with inculturation, identifies two processes of Roman Catholic liturgical inculturation (typical editions of the liturgical books, cultural patterns), compares three methods of liturgical inculturation (dynamic equivalence, creative assimilation, organic progression), points out liturgical creativity. Applies these insights to sacramentals, popular religiosity, and catechesis.
2.17. Liturgical Spirituality
Gaillardetz, Richard R. Transforming Our Days: Spirituality, Community, and Liturgy in a Technological Culture. New York: Crossroad, 2000.
Characteristics of post-modern USA culture drawn from Albert Borgman. Christian resources for responding to these post-modern characteristics, individually and communally. Interaction of the Liturgy of the Church with the Liturgy of the world.
Irwin, Kevin W. Liturgy, Prayer, and Spirituality. New York: Paulist Press, 1988.
Relates liturgy, prayer, and spirituality in the dialectic between human life and Christian worship. Surveys characteristics of liturgical prayer: corporate, Word-engendered, participatory in memorial and hope, patterned, temporal (feasts and seasons), Trinitarian. Explores implications of these characteristics for the Christian life of faith and mission.
Madigan, Shawn. Spirituality Rooted in Liturgy. Washington, DC: The Pastoral Press, 1988.
If schools of spirituality are various methods of liberation, then liturgical spirituality is the Church’s traditional method of liberation. Historical examples in Judaism, the New Testament period, later Church life. Identifies two models of worship arising from contrasted worldviews. Proposes recovery of house church worship as source for liturgical renewal.
White, Susan J. The Spirit of Worship: The Liturgical Tradition. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1999.
Identifies six ways in which the liturgy serves as a spiritual resource: providing language for prayer and meditation, pattern for the spiritual disciplines, arena for the encounter with God, symbolic ritualizing by which to express our relationship with God, model for Christian life and community, strength in times of spiritual crisis. Explores how the liturgy does this in revealing our identity and vocation (initiation, ordination, matrimony, religious profession, etc.), establishing community (eucharist), locating ourselves in space and time (architecture, kinetics, music, liturgy of the hours, liturgical year), living responsibly (penance/reconciliation), and negotiating sickness, dying, and death (anointing, viaticum, funerals).
2.18. Liturgical Catechesis
Ostdiek, Gilbert. Liturgy as Catechesis.