Liturgy Essentials

Liturgy Essentials

Fee: $60 | Five Weeks
Prepare for effective liturgy planning in your faith community. Focused on the basics of Catholic liturgy, this course examines how the Constitution on Sacred Liturgy provides the vision for the liturgical life of the Church. 

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Topics include the importance of ritual and symbol, liturgical ministry, the importance of proper liturgical space, and the way in which music and popular devotion enhance and expand the experience of meaningful worship. 

Topics

Week 1: Course Introduction
Week 2: The Principles of Catholic Liturgy
Week 3: The Four Parts of the Mass
Week 4: Liturgical Ministry, Time, and Space
Week 5: Music and Devotions

Digital text available in the course: James A. Mongelluzzo, Understanding the Liturgy: A Guide to How Catholics Worship. Twenty-Third Publications, 2018.

Content Scholars:

Rev. Msgr. James A. Mongelluzzo, S.T.D. is a priest of the Diocese of Worcester, Massachusetts, and serves on the faculty at Pope St. John XXIII National Seminary.

Jacqueline Regan serves as Associate Dean of Students Affairs and Career Services, Boston College Clough School of Theology and Ministry.

Saint Mary Magdalene

Saint Mary Magdalene

Fee: $30 | Four Weeks
Who was Saint Mary Magdalene? What does scripture tell us about her ministry? What impact does her saintly life have on us today? This course explores the imagery of Saint Mary Magdalene, both positive and negative, that have shaped our view of the Apostle to the Apostles.

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This course also explores the impact of her life on the ministry of women in the church. To complement the informative text and videos, a scripture study text is included to provide an optional prayer experience of St. Mary of Magdala as portrayed in the Gospels

This course has an optional text:  Dinah Chapman Simmons.  Mary Magdalene: Apostle to the Apostles. Little Rock Scripture Study, 2018.
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Content Scholars:

  • Madeleine Boucher, Ph.D. (text) is a former professor of New Testament and director of the Women's Studies Program, Fordham University
  • Barbara Reid, O.P., (video) is Carroll Stuhlmueller, CP, Distinguished Professor of New Testament Studies and President of Catholic Theological Union at Chicago.
  • Christine Axen, Ph.D., (video) is a medieval scholar and professor at Fordham University and Manhattan College.
  • Mary Catherine Hilkert, O.P., (video) is professor of theology at the University of Notre Dame.
  • Sandra Schneiders, I.H.M., (video) is professor emerita of the Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley.
  • Nontando Hadebe, Ph.D., (video) is a theologian and senior lecturer at St. Augustine College in South Africa.
  • Dinah Chapman Simmons (optional prayer text) is director of Sacramental Preparation and Liturgy at Saint Benedict Parish in Halifax. She also serves in parish ministry in the Archdiocese of Halifax-Yarmouth.

Image Credit: Original photo by Fr. Ted Bobosh (CC BY-SA 2.0)

A Church of and for the Poor

A Church of and for the Poor

Fee: $30 | Three Weeks
“The poor you will always have with you” (Matt 26:11) 
Jesus’s words are as true as ever with today’s volatile economies and extreme financial inequality.  

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In pursuit of a 21st Century Christian discipleship, join a guided conversation focused on the many faces of poverty.  Explore the biblical and theological roots of the Church’s continuing commitment to the poor, evaluate several proposals about ways to respond to poverty, and converse with others about what it means to be a Church of and for the poor.  This course uses the issue of C21 Resources The Poor: What Did Jesus Preach?  What Does the Church Teach? edited by Rev. Kenneth R. Himes, O.F.M.

Topics

  • Week 1: Course Introduction
  • Week 2: The Many Faces of Poverty
  • Week 3: How We Respond in the Face of Poverty

Additional Materials Needed

All materials are included in the course.  View this issue of C21 Resources, "For the Poor: What Did Jesus Preach?  What Does the Church Teach?"  If you prefer to have a hardcopy of C21 Resources, request one from The Church in the 21st Century Center at church21@bc.edu. 

Content Scholar:  This issue of C21 Resources was edited by Rev. Kenneth Himes, O.F.M., professor of theology at the Boston College Theology Department.

Image: Lazarus and the Rich Man by Nigel Lawrence, used with permission.