Eucharist in the Local Church (PDF)

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Neil Darragh has an STL from the Urbaniana, Rome, an MA in Social Anthropology from the University of Auckland, and a PhD in Theology from Otago University, New Zealand. He is a diocesan priest with many years of pastoral and liturgical experience in parishes and chaplaincies in New Zealand and the South Pacific.
Jo Ayers has an MA in Anthropology from the University of Auckland and an MA in Liturgics from Notre Dame University, Indiana, USA. As a married lay woman in the church, Jo has extensive experience in liturgical planning and ministry. She is also a civil marriage and funeral celebrant.
Both have taught liturgics and liturgical theology at university level and in local parish ministry training. Both have also been members for many years of liturgical committees that plan liturgies at the local community level.

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Description

This book is about active participation in Sunday Eucharist. It speaks to readers who want to deal creatively with the tension between interpreting the needs of the local community and the official liturgical books. Its focus is on attitudes and principles that make a difference to how we do our liturgies. It offers ways of dealing with the challenges that currently face us in seeking active participation. The book has grown out of the writers’ conviction that high active participation in Eucharist enriches the symbolism of Eucharist and enhances its impact on people’s lives. Such participation can be achieved by local communities, provided their liturgical planners and ministers see this as an important goal; provided too that they have some guiding principles to help them actually do it. Underlying this book is a culture that values participation in church and society; it believes in the added value that teamwork and inclusiveness bring to human relationships and common enterprises. Writers: Neil Darragh in association with Jo Ayers