Liturgical and Prayer Resources
A Gathering With ODW
On Wednesday, July 21, from 1 to 2:30 p.m. and repeated from 7 to 8:30 p.m., the Office for Divine Worship is hosting a Zoom Gathering: “Let Us Return With Joy.” The gathering will focus on post-pandemic worship and an August, 2020 letter from Robert Cardinal Sarah, then Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and Discipline of the Sacraments, Let Us Return to the Eucharist With Joy (English PDF) / Volvemos Con Alegria a la Eucharistia (Spanish PDF).
Also to be referenced in the gathering is Restore Illinois Phase 5 Resource Guide (PDF) developed by our own Archdiocesan Pastoral Council and Presbyteral Council.
Finally, we are also linking a recent article in the NPM magazine, “Pastoral Music,” What Have We Learned? (PDF), which may be helpful.
There will be time for discussion and questions after the presentation.
Please choose one option in the survey invitation below; a link for participation will be sent to you, based on your response. You must include your email on this survey in order to receive the link.
English: surveymonkey.com/r/WMYKCHP
Spanish: surveymonkey.com/r/WNV3Y9R
Reunion con ODW
El miércoles 21 de Julio, de 1 p.m. a 2:30 p.m., se repetirá esta reunión nuevamente a las 7 p.m. a 8:30 p.m., La Oficina del Culto Divino tendrá una reunión: “Volvamos con Alegría.” Esta reunión se enfocara en el culto después de la pandemia y sobre la carta del mes de agosto del 2020 del Cardenal Robert Sahara, Perfecto de ese entonces de la Congregación del Culto Divino y Diciplina de los Sacramentos. “Volvamos Con Alegría a la Eucaristía” (PDF)
Estaremos haciendo referencia sobre el guía de Recursos de Rstauración en la Fase 5, (PDF) desarrollado por el Concilio Pastoral Arquidiocesano y el Concilio Presbiterial.
Finalmente un enlance a un reciente documento en ingles de la revista NPM “Pastoral Music” “What Have We Learned?” (PDF) que les puede ayudar.
Habrá tiempo para dialogar y de preguntas después de la presentación.
La presentación se ofrecerá en ingles con traducción simultánea en español para los que desean el idioma en español, escogiendo esta opción cuando usted entre la cuarto de ZOOM.
Favor de escoger una de las encuestas de invitación y una invitación de enlace se le enviara basado a su respuesta. Favor de incluir su correo electrónico en esta encuesta para recibir el enlace.
English: surveymonkey.com/r/WMYKCHP
Spanish: surveymonkey.com/r/WNV3Y9R
COPYRIGHT PERMISSION - MUSIC
In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, OneLicense.net (which represents most major music publishers) was offering gratis permission for music used in live-streaming Masses. That permission ended April 15. Now they are offering a special discounted license. For all details, please visit here.
COPYRIGHT PERMISSIONS – SCRIPTURE, LITURGICAL TEXTS
In early March, we received the following notice from Mary Sperry of the CCD/USCCB: “In light of the health precautions that may become necessary in the coming days and weeks, the USCCB, CCD, and ICEL are waiving any need to request permission to use readings or Mass prayers in a livestreamed liturgy. This extends to December 31, 2020. We are currently working with the dioceses and publishers to make additional resources available. Please feel free to share with anyone who might need this info. Also, in case it wasn't clear, this applies to both English and Spanish readings and orations.”
COPYRIGHT PERMISSIONS – I.C.E.L. LITURGICAL TEXTS
From Joseph Livingston of the International Commission on English in the Liturgy (ICEL): “No ICEL permission is required to stream or record liturgies. If you wish to put a transcription or guide alongside the recording, this is permitted (assuming the usual conditions about the text being reproduced correctly and the acknowledgement is placed somewhere appropriate) for the duration of the pandemic.” For the text of the usual acknowledgement, please visit here.
- Praying Through the Pandemic – a flexible resource for individual or group prayer, focused on praying about—and through—the COVID-19 pandemic. Available in English – Spanish coming soon. (link)
- Sample petitions from the Office for Protection of Children and Youth for Child Abuse Prevention Month. These can be used in April and beyond by anyone. (link)
- Daily Prayer Resource from LTP - English (link)
- A Message from the USCCB and Resources for Prayer (link)
- Magnificat English / Spanish (link)
- Via Crucis - Spanish (link)
- Liturgia de la horas / Spanish liturgy of the Hours (link)
- Liturgy of the hours (link) (link)
- Resources in Spanish and English from V Encuentro (Spanish | English)
- Resources in Spanish and English from 52 Sundays (Spanish | English)
Resources and Inspiration from Music Publishers and Local Musicians
- OCPMusica (link)
- GIA/WLP Music (link)
- NPM Chicago – local resources and connection for musicians (link)
Broadcast Masses (link)
Daily Mass is livestreamed from St. James Chapel, Quigley Center and Sunday Mass from Holy Name Cathedral.
Additional Resources
We encourage priests to celebrate Mass privately for the good of the People of God, the Church and the intentions of the day. Many parishes are livestreaming this daily Mass and/or Sunday Mass.
We recognize the importance of these livestreamed Masses in order to maintain some kind of liturgical life of the parish under our current situation. This is a valuable ministry that can help our people stay connected to the parish community and to the Lord in his Eucharistic Presence. However, for the sake of consistency with directives and consistency among parish celebrations, as well as to ensure good modeling to our people and to one another, please see the following clarifications.
When you livestream of parish Masses:
- Please limit the number of people to one priest, one deacon OR one reader, one cantor and one musician. This simplifies the livestreamed Masses that priests are encouraged to celebrate as well as makes consistent all Masses livestreamed across the archdiocese.
- All ministers are to practice social distancing, i.e., staying six feet apart.
- The priest should be the only person to handle the gifts (the paten and the chalice). If there is a deacon, he can prepare the chalice without picking it up. This models for our people precautions in social interaction.
- Do not share the chalice among ministers (if there is a deacon, consecrate a second chalice).
- Please visually sanitize your hands before and after distributing Holy Communion.
The homily might help serve to encourage and even inform your people of needed prayers for the sick of the parish, news of any deaths, or other important information for the parishioners to know. Also, please encourage your people to be good stewards by e-giving. Direct them to your parish website and/or the archdiocesan parish offertory site at archchicago.org/offertory.
To offer our people as much pastoral care as possible during this time, please observe the following guidelines for the Sacrament of Reconciliation and Anointing of the Sick, and ministering to the sick and homebound, which are in effect until further notice.
Baptism
Baptism Preparation Guide (English | Español | Polski)
Baptism Rite Guide (English | Español | Polski)
Exposition-Adoration
Exposition Preparation Guide (English | Español | Polski)
Exposition Rite Guide (English | Español | Polski)
Funeral
Funeral Preparation Guide (English | Español | Polski)
Funeral Rite Guide (English | Español | Polski)
Matrimony
Matrimony Preparation Guide (English | Español | Polski)
Matrimony Rite Guide (English | Español | Polski)
Private Prayer
Private Prayer Preparation Guide (English | Español | Polski)
Private Prayer Guide (English | Español | Polski)
Reconciliation
Reconciliation Preparation Guide (English | Español | Polski)
Reconciliation Rite Guide (English | Español | Polski)
Receiving Eucharist
Receiving Eucharist Preparation Guide (English | Español | Polski)
Celebration of Public Mass
Beginning after June 6–7th, Certified Parishes may be holding public mass with reduced attendance. Check with your parish for availability and information on how to register to attend mass.
Comenzando después del 6-7 de junio, las parroquias certificadas pueden llevar a cabo misas públicas con una asistencia reducida. Verifique con su parroquia la disponibilidad e información sobre cómo registrarse para asistir a misa.
Począwszy od 6 -7 czerwca, parafie które uzyskały certyfikaty mogą odprawiać Msze św. z udziałem wiernych ze zmniejszoną liczbą wiernych. Prosimy o sprawdzenie w swojej parafii dostępności i informacji na temat rejestracji na Msze św.
Phase 2 Daily and Sunday Mass Guidelines
Phase 2 Daily and Sunday Mass Guidelines (PDF) *Updated 6/2/2020
Under the State’s exemption for essential services, the Archdiocese of Chicago is including Anointing of the Sick as an essential service. However, out of an abundance of caution, specific and detailed protocols must be followed concerning confirmed COVID-19 patients and only a select number of priests will be allowed to administer this sacrament to those patients. Below are steps to follow in all instances of requests for Anointing of the Sick.
When a request is made for a priest to administer this sacrament, the priest must inquire if the ill person is a confirmed COVID-19 patient.
If YES (the patient IS a COVID-19 patient), the priest who received the initial request must:
- Notify the family that due to guidelines set forth by the archdiocese to ensure everyone’s health, another priest must take the call and that the family will be contacted by that priest. Explain to the family members that out of an abundance of caution only a select number of our priests are allowed to administer this sacrament to any confirmed COVID-19 patients until further notice.
- Ask for contact information from the family including name of a contact person and best phone number to reach the contact; name of the sick individual; and whether or not the person is hospitalized and, if so, at what hospital. If not hospitalized, note the address where the anointing would take place and in what parish.
- Immediately refer the case with the information gathered directly to one of the current COVID-19 Coordinators (Fathers, see email from Vicar General on March 30, 2020). The Coordinator will contact a designated priest in the Vicariate where the individual is located. The designated priest will gather further information and then may proceed under specific guidelines to minister the sacrament.
If UNSURE (the family does not know if the patient has COVID-19), the priest who received the initial request must, out of an abundance of caution, follow the steps as if the patient is a confirmed COVID-19 patient.
- Notify the family that due to guidelines set forth by the archdiocese to ensure everyone’s health, the case needs to be referred to our COVID-19 Coordinator to ensure an approved priest can administer the sacrament.
- Ask for contact information from the family including name of a contact person and best phone number to reach the contact; name of the sick individual; and whether or not the person is hospitalized and, if so, at what hospital. If not hospitalized, note the address where the anointing would take place and in what parish.
- Immediately refer the case with the information gathered directly to one of the current COVID-19 Coordinators. (Fathers, see email from Vicar General on March 30, 2020)
If NO (the patient is NOT a COVID-19 patient), the priest who received the initial request may proceed himself to administer the sacrament under the guidelines noted below for Ministering the Sacrament of Anointing of the Sick to a non-COVID-19 patient. This case does NOT need to be referred to the Coordinators.
Ministering the Sacrament of Anointing of the Sick to a NON-COVID-19 patient
If the sacrament is celebrated in a health care facility, follow the protocols and protective guidelines of that facility.
If in a home, please observe all current guidelines including:
- Maintain social distance with everyone in the room so as to offer comfort without making physical contact.
- Wash or sanitize your hands with soap and warm water before you enter the room.
- The anointing must be done with a cotton-tipped swab or a cotton ball which is to be burned or buried after use.
- If Holy Communion is given, it is to be distributed in the hand. Sanitize your hands with soap and warm water after the visit.
- After administering the sacrament, use bleach wipes or soap and water for the sanitizing of all supplies.
The Apostolic Penitentiary also issued a decree granting a Plenary Indulgence during this extraordinary time. In light of this, please consider sharing the following with your people.
As many people are unfamiliar with indulgences it is helpful to review in a simple way the Church’s true teaching on this grace:
- Fundamentally, indulgences (plenary/full or partial) refer to a repairing and healing of the damage inflicted by sin.
- In the English language, the word "indulgence" carries the connotation of "permission" or "license to do something." In the Church and with regard to sin, this certainly is not the case.
- In traditional language, this is the "remission of temporal punishment due to sin." That we, through prayer and action recommended by the Church, can engage in this healing and repair is not because of our own efforts, merit, or power.
- The Church, drawing on the doctrine of the Mystical Body of Christ and the Communion of Saints speaks of drawing grace from the "treasury of the Church."
- In this moment of isolation and disconnection, the proposal to seek an indulgence re-affirms our connection in the Body of Christ and with the saints.
The Plenary indulgence is granted to the faithful suffering from Coronavirus, who are subject to quarantine by order of the health authority in hospitals or in their own homes if, with a spirit detached from any sin, they:
- unite spiritually through the media to the celebration of Holy Mass, the recitation of the Holy Rosary, to the pious practice of the Way of the Cross or other forms of devotion,
- or if at least they will recite the Creed, the Lord's Prayer and a pious invocation to the Blessed Virgin Mary, offering this trial in a spirit of faith in God and charity towards their brothers and sisters,
- with the will to fulfill the usual conditions (sacramental confession, Eucharistic communion and prayer according to the Holy Father's intentions), as soon as possible, when the suspensions are lifted.
- Please use your parish website, email blasts, etc. to let your parishioners know this information.
- In addition, health care workers, first responders, family members and all those who, following the example of the Good Samaritan, exposing themselves to the risk of contagion, care for the sick of Coronavirus according to the words of the divine Redeemer: ‘Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends’ (Jn 15: 13), will obtain the same gift of the Plenary Indulgence under the same conditions.
Especially in this challenging moment, seeking an indulgence is a way of doing something spiritually and a way of praying for ourselves and for others.