Resources for Creative Teaching

Office of Evangelization and Catechesis -- Northern Area

April 2010
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PARISH MINISTRY
Listed below are resources available to aid with training parishioners for various ministries in your parish.

Print Resources
The Liturgical Ministry Series, published by Liturgy Training Publications
Guides for: Cantors, Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion, Lectors, Liturgy
Committees, Ministers of Liturgical Environment, Music Ministers, Sacristans, Servers,
Ushers and Greeters.

Collegeville Ministry Series, published by Liturgical Press

The Ministry of: Communion, Consolers, Hospitality, Lectors, Liturgical Environment,
Music, Servers

I Like Being in Parish Ministry Series, published by Twenty-Third Publications

Assembly, Eucharistic Minister, Lector, Pastoral Council, Presider, Social Justice, Youth
Minister

DVD/Video
VC 2198 Lay Ministry in the Catholic Church: Visioning Church Ministry Through the
Wisdom of the Past
Presentations by six distinguished Catholic theologians who addressed a
symposium of clergy, religious and laity on the topic of lay ministry in the Catholic
Church. It treats the topic of lay ministry both historically and in the contemporary.
VC 2198.1 Session 1 Who Did What in the Church in the New Testament?
Session 2 Who Did What in the Church in the First Millennium?
VC 2198.2 Session 3 Who Did What in the Church in the Second Millennium?
Session 4 Mission and Ministry
VC 2198.3 Session 5 Lay Ecclesial Ministry – What It Is and What It Isn’t
Session 6 Lay Ministers and Ordained Ministers
VC 2198.4 Panel of speakers responding to questions from the audience

VC 2105 Responding to Grief

Introduces bereavement ministers to the context in which they will minister with
emphasis on the emotional and spiritual needs of the bereaved.

VC 1794 Training Ministers to the Sick

A resource for the preparation of those who visit the sick at home or in health care
facilities.

VC 1578 Ministers of Communion

Explores the spiritual dimensions and meaning of this ministry as well as the
practical aspects of holy communion at Mass. Viewers see ministers in action and
they tell what it means to assist the assembly in its holy communion.