Feb 2025 Mid-Month Update

Initiate Workshop with Fr. Paul Turner

March 25 (West Chester)
March 26 (Tipp City)

Join fellow initiation ministers - clergy, Directors of Evangelization and Worship, OCIA Team leaders, initiation team members, CREs, DREs, pastoral musicians, and others - for a day-long workshop featuring Fr. Paul Turner.

NOW AVAILABLE: Detailed schedule for the day including breakout topics such as celebrating the rites, dynamic catechesis, forming teams in a Family of Parishes, year-round and year-long catechumenal process, and more!

Liturgical Considerations in the time between the Appointment and Installation of Archbishop Casey

In this time between the acceptance of the resignation of Archbishop Schnurr and the installation of Archbishop-designate Casey, the See of Cincinnati is considered vacant, even though Archbishop Schnurr has been appointed as Apostolic Administrator.

Please note the following liturgical guidance regarding the Eucharistic Prayer, Universal Prayer intentions, and Mass formularies.

Ash Wednesday Liturgy of the Word

Because Ash Wednesday is NOT a day of obligation to attend Mass, it may be pastorally useful to include not only Eucharistic liturgies but also Liturgies of the Word outside of Mass with the distribution of ashes in the schedule for Ash Weds in a Family of Parishes.

This can be led by a deacon or qualified lay minister. A ritual text is available on the ODWS website. More resources for preparing the liturgies of the Paschal Cycle (Lent, Triduum, and Eastertide) will be available in the coming weeks.