Many of us who have been preparing for this implementation are hoping to be able to make it a time of general liturgical catechesis - helping people understand what the Mass is all about and why we do what we do. This can be done in homilies, in faith formation programs, in small group discussion, and in weekly meetings. For several months, I had been looking to see if anyone had taken the Sunday and Holy Day lectionary readings for this year and made connections from these readings to the liturgy and the Roman Missal. I never really found what I was looking for, so I decided to try to put something together myself.
At the bottom of this post you will find a link to what I have come up with so far - a Schema for Liturgical Catechesis. There is an introduction in the document itself that explains it in more detail, but the basic idea is that this Schema takes the lectionary readings for Sundays and Holy Days from the First Sunday of Lent through Christmas and makes suggestions for how to use these readings as a springboard for liturgical catechesis and formation for the implementation of the Third Edition of the Roman Missal. There are probably other connections that can be made that are not included here, but it is a start.
I plan to use this Schema especially for homilies, but there are many other possibilities. And while there is something in the Schema for every week from now through the end of December, it provides a lot of flexibility to pick and choose topics or dates that might be most beneficial for your community. I have also shared this Schema with LTP (Liturgy Training Publications), and it is posted on their website: http://www.revisedromanmissal.org/. Feel free to use it as you can and to pass it on to anyone else who might be able to use it. And let me know if you have anything to add.
Click here to view or download the Schema for Liturgical Catechesis.
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