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NPM Decoder "Liturgical Words"

Welcome to the Office of Worship's media resource page. Please visit us again as resources will be updated on a regular basis.

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Quinceañera Resource
"Order for the Blessing on the Fifteenth Birthday" <click here for USCCB page
Celebrate a young woman's passage from childhood to maturity with this new bilingual ritual book! Use this book to honor quinceañeras in your community. The book contains options for using the rite within and outside of Mass and includes an appendix of intercessions. Create a living memory and support young women as they thank God, request his blessing and dedicate themselves to Mary as models of faith. Bilingual, facing pages, and fits in a sacreamentary.

NPM Decoder - Liturgical Words. Like many areas of life, liturgy is filled with specialized words and phrases that serve as a kind of shorthand for complex processes and ideas. By linking our site to this "decoder," we hope to break open some of these liturgical code words used in the Western Church (especially in the Roman {Latin} Rite of the Roman Catholic Church) so that everyone who uses them will have a firmer grasp of their meaning and a richer understanding of what the Church has in mind for its liturgical life. You may access this link at the right of this page in the "quick links" column. NPM Decoder