Assessment

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Module Aims

This module is designed to give participants in-depth theological and liturgical understanding of the Church’s Year and to facilitate appreciation of the growth in Christian faith that happens in the course of its celebration.

Indicative Syllabus

• The Theology of Time
• The Church’s Year; Solemnities, Feasts and Memorials
• The Seasonal Word of the Cosmic Christ: The Lectionary in the Liturgical Year
• Dies Domini – Feasting Sundays with Worship and Witness
• Advent – The Liturgy and Life of Waiting for Christmas
• The Sundays and Weekdays of Ordinary Time
• Birth to Baptism – The Nativity of the Lord and his First Manifestations
• Preparing Easter – The Works of Lent
• The Three Days – The Liturgy of the Passion and Resurrection of the Lord
• The Great Sunday - Fifty Days in Joy and Exultation.

Learning Outcomes

• — Discuss the theological, historical, spiritual, and pastoral aspects of the Liturgical Year;
• — Manifest the ability to understand the fundamental Christian concept of time as redeemed by the celebration of a weekly Sunday and a yearly Easter;
• — Recognise the diverse options available in the Church’s liturgical calendar and to be able to read the Liturgical Calendar and select the correct prayers from the ritual editions of the various liturgical books;
• — Manifest the ability to maintain the unity of the liturgical year and to foster active participation of the faithful through the yearly repetition of the rhythm of feasts and seasons.
• — Integrate the various elements in the Lectionary for Mass, the Roman Missal and the Liturgy of the Hours, along with the other ritual books, so as to aid in the preparation of liturgical celebrations;

Bibliography

• — Matias Auge, “The Liturgical Year in the First Four Centuries,” in Ansgar J. Chupungco, ed., The Pontifical Liturgical Institute, Handbook for Liturgical Studies, Vol V, Liturgical Time and Space (Collegeville, MN: The Liturgical Press, 2000), 135-156.
• — Matias Auge, “The Liturgical Year in the Roman Rite,” in Chupungco, ed., Liturgical Time and Space, 177-210.
• — Peter Brown, The Cult of the Saints: It’s Rise and Function in Latin Christianity (Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 1981), 1-49.
• — Annibale Bugnini, The Reform of the Liturgy 1948 – 1975. Translated by Matthew J. O’Connell (Collegeville, MN: The Liturgical Press, 1990).
• — Ignazio M Calabuig, “The Liturgical Cult of Mary in East and West,” in Chupungco, ed., Liturgical Time and Space, 219-298.
• — Raniero Cantalamessa, Easter in the Early Church: An Anthology of Jewish and Early Christian Texts (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 1993).
• — General Instruction of the Liturgy of the Hours. Liturgy Documentary Series 5 (Washington D.C.: USCCB Publishing, Revised Edition, 2002).
• — Lanfranc Holford-Strevens, The History of Time: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: OUP, 2005).
• — Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Sabbath: Its Meaning for Modem Man (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1975)
• — Pope John Paul II, Apostolic Letter Dies Domini: On Keeping the Lord’s Day Holy (Boston, MA: St. Paul’s, 1998).
• — Ruben M. Leikam, “The Liturgy of the Hours in the First Four Centuries,” in Chupungco, ed., Liturgical Time and Space, 3-28.
• — Reuben M Leikam, The Liturgy of the Hours in the Roman Rite in Chupungco, ed., Liturgical Time and Space, 39-88.
• — Neil Xavier O’Donoghue, “Do Not Be Afraid to Give Your Time to Christ” in Jeremy Corley, Neil Xavier O’Donoghue and Salvador Ryan, eds., Maynooth College Reflects on COVID-19: New Realities in Uncertain Times (Dublin: Messenger Publications, 2021), pp. 144-154.
• — Josef Pieper, In Tune With The World: A Theory of Festivity (South Bend, IN: St. Augustine’s Press, 1999).
• — Willy Rordorf, Sunday: The History of the Day of Rest and Worship in the Earliest Centuries of the Christian Church, trans. by A.A.K. Graham (London: S.P.C.K., 1968).
• — Phillippe Rouilard, “The Cult of the Saints in East and West,” in Chupungco, ed., Liturgical Time and Space, 299-317.
• — Robert Taft, The Liturgy of the Hours in East and West: The Origins of the Divine Office and its Meaning for Today. 2nd ed. (Collegeville, MN: The Liturgical Press, 1993).
• — Robert F. Taft, “The Theology of the Liturgy of the Hours,” in Chupungco, ed., Liturgical Time and Space, 119-133.
• — Tertullian On Prayer in Alistair Stewart-Sykes, ed. and trans., Tertullian, Cyprian and Origen: On The Lord’s Prayer, Popular Patristics Series (Crestwood, NY: SVS Press, 2004), 41-66.
• — 66. Hans Urs von Balthasar, A Theology of History (New York: Sheed & Ward, 1963, reprint San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1994).