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Workshop Schedule

Office of Worship

Roman Missal Workshop

The Office of Worship of the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph provides ministry formation and renewal sessions for *Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion, lectors, cantors, organists, and ministers of hospitality: and in collaboration with the Pastoral Care Committee, for ministers to the sick and homebound.

Click here for the Spring 2010 Workshop Schedule

Basic to the formation of liturgical ministers is their understanding of ministry and their call to serve, and knowledge of the liturgy in which they are called to serve. This aspect of formation is called liturgical catechesis and is the common ground shared by all the liturgical ministers.

• Liturgical catechesis will be the content of the formation session on the morning of the Saturday sessions.
• The ministry's specific skills and procedures will be the content of the afternoon sessions.
• Participants should be given a thorough orientation to parish practices following their diocesan formation day.

Cantor Class Instructors Bio
Jeanne Marie Kohr
Sandy Prothman
Michael Steimel
Sylvia Stoner

Baptism and Confirmation are the foundations of all ministry in the Church. In Baptism, we are consecrated to a life of worship and devotion to the mission of the Church. In Confirmation, we are strengthened by the gifts and grace of the Holy Spirit to perfect and use the gifts God has given us both for worship, and in the world. 

The General Instructions of the Roman Missal tells us:

In the celebration of Mass the faithful form a holy people, a people whom God has made his own, a royal priesthood, so that they may give thanks to God and offer the spotless Victim not only through the hands of the priest but also together with him, and so that they may learn to offer themselves. They should, moreover, endeavor to make this clear by their deep religious sense and their charity toward brothers and sisters who participate with them in the same celebration. The faithful, moreover, should not refuse to serve the People of God gladly whenever they are asked to perform some patrticular ministry or function in the celebration. 1 GIRM #95 and 97.

• a layperson called by the pastor (or his delegate) to receive special formation, and then to be responsible for the ministry of the proclamation of the Word of God during the celebration of Holy Mass
• a minister at the Table of the Word of God
• a person with fine skills for public speaking, who is in full communion with the Catholic Church
• a person who prepares for his or her ministry thoroughly and prayerfully, and is dependable in being present when they are scheduled to serve
• willing to share their gift of the ministry of God's Word not only when convenient, but also when such service may entail some sacrifice (for example, special services, nursing home or prison ministry)

• a lay person called by the pastor (or his delegate) to receive special formation, and then to be responsible for assisting the ordinary ministers of Holy Communion in the distribution of the Body and Blood of Christ during the celebration of Holy Mass
• a person who is willing to bring the presence of Christ in Word and Sacrament to the sick and homebound either regularly or on occasion

*The Church uses the word "extraordinary" to distinguish between ordained bishops, priests, and deacons, who are the ordinary ministers of Holy Communion, and specially commissioned lay people who cooperate with their pastors in this ministry, so to speak, when there are not enough ordinary ministers to give Holy Communion to everyone at Mass or to take Holy Communion to the sick and the homebound.

• sent by the parish, as a living witness that the community of faith and worship has not forgotten the absent sick, the invisible elderly, and the unseen suffers
• a sign or bridge of the community of faith
• a sign that God is with those confined by illness or advance age, and wants to remain with them

These *Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion to the sick & homebound visit not only the homes of the sick, but also may serve to assist pastoral care-givers in hospitals, nursing homes, and, in some instances, prisons. These ministers receive special formation both at the diocesan and parochial level. The rites and prayers that they are given to use are designated by the Church as propler for lay ministers.

• both a singer and leader of congregational song
• to share in proclaiming the Word of God, particulary as psalmist
• to teach the assembly its songs, refrains and acclamations
• to facilitate and encourage the sung worship of the assembly
• to lead moments of worship with the solo song