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The Bible Today

Biblical Roots of Confirmation

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CAMERON CITIZEN - OBSERVER

Words of Inspiration: April 1, 2004 .
Words of Inspiration: October 9, 2003 .
Words of Inspiration: July 17, 2003 .
Words of Inspiration: April 24, 2003 .
Words of Inspiration: January 30, 2003 .
Words of Inspiration: November 7, 2002 .
Words of Inspiration: August 22, 2002
Words of Inspiration:  May 30, 2002
Words of Inspiration:  March 7, 2002
Words of Inspiration:  December 21, 2001
Words of Inspiration:  October 11, 2001
Words of Inspiration:  July 26, 2001

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Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops
The National Bulletin

"That the Intimate Connection of Confirmation with the Whole of Christian Initiation May Stand Out More Clearly"

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CANTOR

Exulting the Exultet
Wake, Awake

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CATECHIST CONNECTION

Catechesis

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CATECHUMENATE

Confirming a Lapsed Catholic .
Catechumenate, Receiving candidates one by one .
A Time to Wed: Convalidating Marriages and the Initiation Rites .
The Preparation Rites of Holy Saturday .
When do we Celebrate Confirmation and Eucharist with the Baptized, Uncatechized Catholic?  A Continuing Conversation .
Envy and the Confirmation of Children of Catechetical Age
The Christian Initiation Masses in the Missale Romanum .
Catholic Initiation or Christian Initiation of Adults .
Balthasar Fischer:  1912-2001 .
The Pope's Adaptations:  A Case Study in Initiation .
Pondering the Journey: A Review of the Report-  Journey to the Fullness of Life
Catechism:  A Primer for Catechists
Catechism:  Baptism
Catechism:  Confirmation
Easter Vigil:  Confirmation
Presentations
Primary Sources

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THE CATHOLIC KEY

Two part article on Mary's life:
Few details emerge from the Bible on Mary's life, thoughts .  (Part 1).
Few details emerge from the Bible on Mary's life, thoughts .  (Part 2).
Priesthood; immensely rewarding, but not for wimps  .
The Good News column helps us understand Jesus' Good News .
Book Review:  What Is Theology? Foundational and Moral
Book Review:  The Powers That Be
Book Review:  God:  A Biography
Book Review:  Catholics USA: Makers of a Modern Church
Bolivian Mission Celebrates its 25th Anniversary
Bolivian Parish Founders are Bishop Helmsing, Papal Volunteers
Return to homeland opens eyes of 3 Bolivian-born Youths
Priestly People: A look at holy orders, celibacy, training, other topics
'Subtle' Changes in New U.S. Funeral Rite Examined
Revised Funeral Rite Changes/Practices for Vigil, Burial
New Ritual Offers Special Prayers for Unique Situations

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CATHOLIC PRACTICE 

Should Communion Services Substitute for Mass?
Reconciliation Before 1st Communion
The Celibate Priesthood
Skipping Confirmation
The Wisdom and Folly of Infant Baptism
Death of the Last Rites
Wedding Procession

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CHRISTIAN INITIATION

Jump Start

Standing Up
Not At Home
Recruitment
Dismissal
The Sponsor
Signs of Darkness
Loyalty and Commitment
Faithful Tears
A Different Kind of Welcome
Just Dessert

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COMMUNICATOR

God's Bad Rap

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DeKALB  COUNTY
RECORD  -  HERALD
[P.O.Box 98:  Maysville MO 64469-0098: Phone 816-449-2121]

Pastor's Corner: Faithful Citizenship  .
Pastor's Corner: The Church's Alarm Clock .
Pastor's Corner: Confessions Today .
Pastor's Corner: Vocations .
Pastor's Corner: Celebrate the new life given to us at Easter .
Pastor's Corner: Bishop's Letter on Pornography.
Pastor's Corner:  Hail Mary:  A Christmas Prayer
Pastor's Corner: A Christmas Story .
Pastor's Corner: Stem_Cells .
Pastor's Corner: Boundaries .
Pastor's Corner:  Ascension .
Pastor's Corner: Sleeping .
Pastor's Corner: Transformation
Pastor's Corner: Love_and_Truth .

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DIOCESE OF KANSAS CITY - ST. JOSEPH
CENTER FOR PASTORAL LIFE AND MINISTRY

Convalidations    (Distributed in 1989)
How not to Give a Homily
Mystagogy         (Distributed in early 1994).
The Celebration of the Chrism Mass    (Sept. 12, 1991)

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DOXOLOGY JOURNAL

Book Review: Maxwell e Johnson's  Worship Rites, Feasts, and Reflections .
ISBN 1-56929-069-5  $14.95

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EPHREM'S THEOLOGICAL JOURNAL
(
P.B. No. 26: 485001 Satna 485 001 M.P., India)

The Theology of Marriage in the Ordo and Practice of the Roman Rite .
Eastern Contribution to Confirmation Theology

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EUCHARISTIC MINISTRIES

The Psalmist of Lent

Communion From The Cup

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FEDERATION OF DIOCESAN LITURGICAL
COMMISSIONS 

Newsletter:   Dirty Feet  .
Newsletter:   The Challenge of the Confirmation Praxis
Bulletin Insert:  How Prayer Looks .  (source may be downloaded in pdf format from this page)
Bulletin Insert:  Expresiones al Orar .(source may be downloaded in pdf format from this page)

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FINANCE COUNCIL FORUM

The St. Regis Budget Review

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GIA QUARTERLY

The Would-Be Responsory

O Come O Come O Catechumen

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THE KANSAS CITY STAR

Copper as Canvas
excerpt from Vern Barnet's Faith and Beliefs Column, September 1999.
John the Baptist a Man of the Season    
(From a talk and slide show: published as Vern Barnet's "Faith and Beliefs: John the  Baptist a man of the season") 
Viewpoint (June, 1994)

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LITURGICAL  CATECHESIS

First Confession Before First Communion:  Settled or Unsettling?

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LITURGICAL MINISTRY

Scrutinies Scrutinized

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LITURGY :
A Publication of the Auckland Diocesan Liturgy Centre

Baptizing Well .

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LITURGY TRAINING PUBLICATION

Overview of Directory for the Application of Principles and Norms on Ecumenism

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The Living Light

Catechizing Beginners

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LUMEN VITAE

A propos de la confirmation: Comment sortir de la confusion?  51/3
(September 1996):265-274.  An English translation of this article appeared in Worship
 71/6 (November 1997:537-545

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MANY PATHS

Letter to the Editor: September, 2006:  Re: Embryonic Stem Cell Research in MO.
Essay Response: The World's Religions:  Pieces or Pattern

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MARKLIN CANDLE COMPANY

The Millennium Candle
Prayers for the Jubilee Year
The September 11 Candle

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MINISTRY and LITURGY

Set free from sin:  Baptism and reconciliation .
The Common Priesthood .
Reconciliation Within the Eucharistic Liturgy .
The Missale Romanum: A Report from Chicken Little
The Germ of the Girm .
Preaching the Wedding Homily (Excerpt from Preparing the Wedding Homily Book)
Outdoor Weddings: How to Respond  (published in March, 2002)
Nuptial Knowledge   ( Excerpt from the: Catholic Wedding Answer Book)

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MISCELLANEOUS

Added small article in the book Corazones Humanos/Hearts of Flesh ; Celebrar la solidaridad de El Salvador et Kansas City. ( St. Louis: Global Publishing Sales, 2006. Pp 62-63. )
Introduction to J. D. C. Fisher,  Christian Initiation: Confirmation Then and Now .
(Chicago: Hillenbrand Books, 2005)
Introduction to This Bold Prayer    and select the 'Sample Chapter'   (Foreword.  Book available from Wovenword Press)
Frogs in Formaldehyde 
(Essay for Celtic Pride Inside; Editor Kathy Storms, For details, contact sparkles@yahoo.com )
'Initiation' In Theological Expression   
Extract from "Imaginer la theologie catholique", Permanence et transformations de la foi en attendant Jesus-Christ: Melanges offerts a Ghislain Lafont. Ed. Jeremy Driscoll, Studia  Anselmiana 129 Rome: Centro Studi Sant' Anselmo: 2000. Pp.487-499 
"Eucharist as Initiation."    
(Found in *A Book of Readings on the Eucharist: A Eucharistic Jubilee.* Washington DC: United States Catholic Conference, 2000. Contact the USCC, 3211 4th Street, N.E.,Washington DC 20017-1194,  202-541-3244/45.
                   jubilee@nccbuscc.org 

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MODERN LITURGY

Confirmation: no more winging it
Dear Bishops

Lectionary Catechesis: Planning Guide

  2nd Sunday of Easter through the Ascension, Year C .
  7th Sunday of Easter through the 14th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year C .
  15th Sunday in Ordinary Time through the Assumption, Year C .
  21st Sunday in Ordinary Time through the 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C .
  28th Sunday in Ordinary Time through Thanksgiving Day, Year C .
  Overview of 1992-1993 Liturgical Year Centering on Easter .
  Advent through Baptism of the Lord, Year A .
  2nd through 7th Sundays in Ordinary Time, Year A .
  1st Sunday of Lent through Passion Sunday, Year A .
  TRIDUUM, Year A .
  Easter, Year A .
  Easter and Ordinary Time, Year A .
  Summer, Ordinary Time, Year A .
Liturgical Catechesis: Planning Guide
  Assumptions about the Assumption 
  The Gospel: the Presence of God 
  Christian Funerals 
  Advent
  Christmas
  Preparation of the Gifts
  Penance

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NATIONAL CATHOLIC CEMETERY CONFERENCE
710 North River Road
Des Plaines IL 60016-1296
'THE CATHOLIC CEMETERIAN'

'Subtle' Changes in New U.S. Funeral Rite Examined
Revised Funeral Rite Changes/Practices for Vigil, Burial
New Ritual Offers Special Prayers for Unique Situations

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NEW CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA
 ( contact site: www.gale.com )

"Confirmation".  Washington DC:  Thomson Gale in association with the Catholic
                     University of America, 2003.

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NEW DICTIONARY OF SACRAMENTAL WORSHIP
1-800-858-5450
ISBN: 0-8146-5788-5

The Liturgical Press Collegeville, MINN, 1990 

Adult Commitment, Ritual for:  pp.28-30 .

Baptism and Original Sin: pp. 81-83 .
Exorcism in Baptismal Rite: pp.466-467 .

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NORTH AMERICAN FORUM 
on the CATECHUMENATE

Book Review: Journey Into Belief:
                    Finding God Through the Creed by Steve McCoy-Thompson
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Institute Resource Packet: Paschal Mystery .
Forlorn yet Privileged:  the Case of Candidates
Book Review:  Iniziazione cristiana e catechumenato and Catechumenato Antico
Book Review: Real Presence: The Work of the Eucharist by Nathan Mitchell
Institute Resource Packet: The Meaning of Sacraments
Book Review: Der Erwachsenenkatechumenat in den Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika: Eine Anregung fur die Sakramentenpastoral in Duetschland by Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst.
Book Review: Erwachsene auf dem Weg zur Taufe: Werkbuch Erwachsenenkatechumenat by Matthias Ball, Franz-Peter Tebartz-Van Elst, and Ernst Werner

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NOTRE DAME CENTER FOR PASTORAL LITURGY
Assembly

Gifts For the Poor

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NOTRE DAME CENTER for PASTORAL LITURGY
Network Quarterly Newsletter 

Book review: The Sacraments: The Word of God at the Mercy of the Body .           
(A Pueblo Book by Louis-Marie Chauvet. Collegevile: The Liturgical Press,2002. $29.95. ISBN 0-8146-643-2).

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PARISH WORKS
 Published by the Paulist Press
 

Enabling Parish Leadership: Managing Stress .
Enabling Parish Leadership: Giving Reports .
Enabling Parish Leadership: Recruiting Volunteers .
Enabling Parish Leadership: Letting People Say No .
Enabling Parish Leadership: Giving the Tools to do the Work With .
Enabling Parish Leadership:  Affirming and Challenging .
Enabling Parish Leadership:  Learning Lives .
Enabling Parish Leadership:  Getting the Big Picture .
Enabling Parish Leadership:  Going with Peoples' Ideas .
Review of LabOra Worship                  ( -v3.9 software)
Sharing Faith as Staff .

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PASTORAL MUSIC

 Sing to the Lord .
 Replacing the Sacramentary: A Progress Report .
 Book Review: The Didache: Text, Translation, Analysis, and Commentary  by Aaron
 Milavec.                                            (published April/May, 2005)

 Adapt the Rite?  Of Course!  But...      ( published in April/May, 2002) .

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PRAYING

 A Feast on Jesus' Meals                    (Book Review)
 Let Us Pray: Invitation/Purpose/Preparation
 Sunday's Great  Challenge
 Advent:  The Holiday Season
 Lent:  A Feel-Bad Season in a Feel-Good Society

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PREACH
(waiting for contact data from the JS Paluch Co. in Chicago
04/03/06 )

 Preaching the Holy Spirit All Through Easter

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PROCEEDINGS OF THE
NORTH AMERICAN ACADEMY OF LITURGY

 What We're Not: The quest for Unity of Theory and Practice
 Seminar Report:  Christian Initiation
 Christian Initiation

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THE RAYTOWN POST NEWSPAPER
(no website:  email to:
raytownpost@comcast.net  )

 Holy Week

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RITE

 Water and Promises .
 Processional Nature of Holy Week .
 Baptizing Well .
 When to Celebrate Confirmation and Eucharist with the Baptized, Uncatechized Catholic?:    A Continuing Conversation .
 

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S.O.M.E.
(So that Others May Eat)  Reflections
The BishopSullivanCenter

 It's Not Enough .
 Turning the other Cheek .
 Daily Prayer .
 Christmas 2003 .
 Kids and Christmas .
 It's God's Will .
 It's To Die For .
 Quite a Throw .
 The Last Supper .
 We Have to Share .
 Why Is It That We Argue? .

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ST. JOHN FRANCIS REGIS CHURCH

 Stewardship in the St. Regis Family
 What should we give the church for our child's Baptism?
 What should we give the church for the Funeral?

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TODAY'S LITURGY:
Planning Guide for Musicians & Liturgists

 To Be Revised, Adapted, Restored: The Rite of Confirmation Since the Council .
 Save the Candidates

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TODAY'S  PARISH
(No Web Site : email  ttpubs@aol.com )
P.O. Box 180:  Mystic, CT:  06355

 Adult Faith Formation: Asking the Hard Questions    (Article: Jan. 2002)

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TODAY'S  PARISH MINISTER
(former name: Today's Parish)

 Catechumenate as a Model for Parish Life  .
 Don't Water Down the Easter Vigil    (Article: Mar. 2007)

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THE TRIDUUM BOOK
1-888-273-7782
Resource Publications, Inc.

 The Easter Candle : p. 127 .
 Holy Water: p.160 .
 Stations of the Cross: p.80 .
 Washing Feet: p.42 .

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WORSHIP MAGAZINE

 Benedict XVI and the sequence of the sacraments of initiation .
 The Promise of Baptism: An Introduction to Baptism in Scripture and the Reformed Tradition
 by James V. Brownson (Book Review).
 After Baptism: Shaping the Christian Life  by John P. Burgess.  (Book Review)
 The Reform of Baptism and Confirmation in American Lutheranism  by Jeffrey A. Turscott
 (Book Review..)
 A Harvest for God by Michael Clay   (Book Review..)
 O Propheticum Lavacrum: Baptism as Symbolic Act of  Eschatological Salvation  by Liam
 Bergin.                                   (Book Review:: Sept. 2001)
 Die Firmung                                    (Book Review: Mar. 2000)
 Confusion Over Confirmation             (Article: Nov. 1997)
 Forum: Christian Initiation and Baptism in the Holy Spirit   (Article: Sept. 1996)
 Augustine and the Catechumenate    (Book Review:  Mar. 1996)
 The Dilemma of Priestless Sundays  (Book Review: Mar. 1996)
 The Awe Inspiring Rites of Initiation: The Origins of the RCIA  
                                                      (Book Review Sep 1995)
 The Origins of Confirmation: An Analysis of Kavanagh's  Hypothesis .
                                                      (Article: Jul. 1991) 

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