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To: Clergy
From: Patricia DeJarnett, Ph.D., Associate Director, Office for Divine Worship
Attached, please find the annual liturgical preparation aid for the seasons of Advent and Christmas (Year B). It contains:
- Information regarding preparing liturgies during the pandemic
- Handouts which you might provide for families and the homebound (about the Advent season, the Advent wreath and the Jesse tree)
- A full text for a Rite of Reconciliation of several penitents with individual confession and absolution (to be used in regions where permissible)
- Readings
- Alternative readings
- Sample penances
- Music suggestions
- The Liturgical Year Calendar Advisory
- Lectionary readings for Sundays and solemnities (Year B)
- The proclamation of the birth of Christ (to be sung before Mass)
- Proclamation of the date of Easter (to be sung on the Solemnity of the Epiphany)
- The O Antiphons (December 17-24)
- Information about the FDLC
We hope that you will find it to be helpful.
As ever, I am grateful to the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine and to the International Commission on English in the Liturgy (ICEL) for their kind permission to include their copyrighted material.
Please give us some time to post the Spanish edition.