Posted on 09/20/2004 9:11:36 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler
Life Teen Liturgy Experiences Changes
By Claudia I. Provencio The Catholic Sun
MESA — In “joyful obedience” to the Church, Life Teen officials say they will cease the ministry’s longtime trademark of gathering teens arm-in-arm around the altar during the Eucharistic Prayer.
The practice that has been a staple at Life Teen Masses nationwide for nearly two decades will cease Oct. 1 in compliance with the revised General Instruction of the Roman Missal.
The youth ministry will also refrain from using the phrase, “The Mass never ends, it must be lived” at the conclusion of the liturgy.
In a recent letter to U.S. bishops, priests and diocesan youth offices, Life Teen founder Msgr. Dale Fushek asked member parishes to joyfully comply with the directives in a “spirit of obedience.”
“Our understanding is that the sanctuary space around the altar is to remain separated from the rest of the assembly,” said Phil Baniewicz, president of Life Teen International.
The modifications are designed to enhance liturgical uniformity, he said.
In a video sent to 920 parishes in the United States and 50 abroad, Msgr. James Moroney, executive director of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Liturgy, said, “Life Teen is like a precious gem in the Church’s crown.
“But gems and jewels sometimes need to get polished and even have their settings rearranged,” he said.
At Life Teen’s request, Msgr. Moroney and Cardinal Francis Arinze, Prefect of the Congregation of Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments in Rome, provided direction prompting the liturgical changes.
Hector Cervantes, a core member for 18 months at the Life Teen hub, St. Timothy Parish in Mesa, said the cessation of gathering at the altar helps people focus more on the Mass and on the Eucharist.
Prior to the implementation of the changes at the Mesa parish Sept. 5, he said core members were “constantly having to make sure the kids behaved and didn’t talk” during the Eucharistic Prayer.
However, the 23-year-old, who has attended St. Timothy’s for “as long as I can remember,” said the modifications will take a little getting used to. “But change is always good,” he added. “So we are just welcoming it.”
Bri Morsa, a Life Teen core member at St. Gabriel the Archangel, said she heard no complaints from teens when the Cave Creek parish implemented the changes Sept. 5.
“The flow of the Mass hasn’t changed. The teens have responded in obedience,” Morsa said. “The change doesn’t affect them because that’s not what they’re about. What I see in the teens is that no matter what goes on, they are there for the presence of the Lord.”
Old habits may die hard, she said, but the modifications to the Life Teen liturgy didn’t prevent people from concluding the Mass with a “prayerful heart and a joyful voice.”
>>Life Teen Liturgy Experiences Changes<<
Its voice is starting to change, its getting zits, and finding itself watching members of the opposite sex in gym class.
The Holy Father corrects a liturgical abuse, and his children CHILDREN!!! obey him with joy in their hearts. One says that she is always desiring improvement in imperfect language ("change is always good) and a bunch of mean-spirited, hateful, paranoid lunatics attack as if she just proclaimed her soul belongs to Satan.
SHAME ON YOU!!!
SHAME ON YOU!!!
You pharisees, you brood of vipers!
The spirtually poor come begging at your door, and you kick their teeth down their throats!
Trash the Church.
Trash the Pope.
Trash the Novus Ordo.
That's what the FR religion forum has become.
Don't you start in, either. I included you because you're every bit as much of a problem as they are. You've let yourself become the perfect straw man for every conspiracy-mongerer that ever haunted this site.
Sorry. That wasn't fair. On this thread you haven't said anything wrong, except perhaps some unfortunate phrasings, something I'm very guilty of myself from time to time.
As for being a problem, yes, I am. I'm in the Roman Catholic Church, the one governed by John Paul II, and attend the Novus Ordo Mass, the Mass celebrated by John Paul II. And I'm sick to death of seeing all three of those ridiculed here on a daily basis. I understood that this stuff was going to stop, but, apparently, it's not.
If you think I'm somehow to blame for the discord on this site, as opposed to a bunch of sedes and SSPXers, then YOU have a problem.
Exactly what have I said on this thread to deserve being called a viper?
Sentence retracted already. Once again, I'm sorry, my statement wasn't fair.
You don't even know what "conversion" is do you? I take it you did NOT read Chapter 3 of the CCC?
All those programs could stop immediately, but knowledge of Jesus would not diminish one iota.
Those programs do nothing but support people until they expeience their own conversion, and then truly know God. Until then, those programs can only supply an intellectual knowledge, which is what you are in posession of. (you think)
Your ignorance is setting the Church back more than the homosexual Priest scandal. Can you imagine the worldwide audience reading this thread and findng a (so called) Catholic deacon who does not believe in the Holy Ghost, nor the power of prayer? Lord preserve us from the likes of liberal deacons. (I assume because of all the smart people here that it has been corroborated that you are a deacon in good standing?)
At any rate, I suggest, for the good of the Church, that you not comment on anything supernatural connected with the Church. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE
How perfectly Christ like of you. Are you cleansing the temple of the money changers? May we picture you with a knotted cord in your hand, screaming at us to get out of the temple?
Wasn't that you in the previous post getting off on the teen life members watching naked girls in their dressing room? naughty, naughty
devil or angel? I can't make up my mind.
What in hell is a Life Teen mass?
Besides being delusional, you can't read, either. Go back up and read my post where I say that prayer is necessary, but not just prayer, by itself.
Those programs do nothing but support people until they expeience their own conversion, and then truly know God.
Uh, yeah. Thanks for proving my point. I'll bet you didn't even know that you were agreeing with me, did you? Knowledge is necessary for the Holy Spirit to have something to work with.
You can drop the ad-hominems, please. They make you look like a hysteric.
Oh, and I will not stop commenting on anything I please.
How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? Or how shall they believe him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher? (Romans 10:14)
LOL. You copy the Moderator everytime someone disagrees with you (your leader trained you well), and you tell me not to whine?
"If you think I'm somehow to blame for the discord on this site, as opposed to a bunch of sedes and SSPXers, then YOU have a problem."
You, singlehanded, are responsible for about 80% of the discord and 90% of the heresy on this site.
Hey, hey, hey, everybody. Look at note 62. There's one of those SSPX/Traditionalists/NO Bashers flaming somebody again.
Oh, wait a minute...
Never mind.
Let's see. I've never, in my entire time here, ever been suspended.
You, OTOH, have been, for sowing discord.
I'll leave it to the reader to decide whether your charge is true.
"Let's see. I've never, in my entire time here, ever been suspended."
Yes, and that despite the frequency with which you commit offenses that should lead to suspension. That is one major reason for the widespread distrust of the Religion Moderator.
"You, OTOH, have been, for sowing discord."
No, I was suspended for something I did not do, after you ran to a moderator and falsely accused me.
"I'll leave it to the reader to decide whether your charge is true."
So will I.
As I recall, you said I was doing the work of Satan, and the Mod thought that was over the line.
It was, and you know it.
As to being "falsely accused," your post was right there, for the moderator and everybody else to read.
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