Synopsis
All lay ministers who provide care to those who are sick, homebound, isolated, or suffering in some way will benefit from the contents of this book. It includes the official rites they will need from the Book of Blessings and Pastoral Care of the Sick: Rites of Anointing and Viaticum to bring Holy Communion to, pray with, and share the Gospel with those who cannot regularly worship with their parish community on Sunday. These rites include: Communion in ordinary circumstances, Communion in a hospital or institution, celebration of Viaticum outside Mass, orders for the blessing of the sick, order for the blessing of a person suffering from addiction or from substance abuse, order for the blessing of a victim of crime or oppression, order for the blessing of parents after a miscarriage, visits to the sick and to a sick child, and pastoral care of the dying. To help you with your ministry, this book also includes: the Gospel for Sundays and holydays of obligation for Year A, new explanations of the readings for Year A, and a list of patron saints for the sick and the suffering. This handbook is specially designed for the use of lay ministers of care, so it does not contain the rites for the sacraments of penance or the anointing of the sick, or the special prayers and blessings used by ordained bishops, priests, or deacons.
About the Author
Rev. J. Philip Horrigan is a presbyter of the Archdiocese of Kingston, Ontario. He has a graduate degree in theology (mth, 1994– 95) from the Institute for Spirituality and Worship at the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley, CA. In June 1997 he received his doctorate of ministry DMin, liturgical studies) at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago, and was appointed the director of the newly formed Department for Art and Architecture in the Office for Divine Worship, Archdiocese of Chicago, a position he held for twelve and a half years. In this capacity he acted as a liturgical consultant/resource person for all the new church building and renovation projects for the Archdiocese, and chaired the Diocesan Commission on Church Art and Architecture. He is an adjunct faculty in the Word and Worship department at Catholic Theological Union, Chicago. Since 2009 he has developed his ministry as a liturgical design consultant and maintains a number of consulting projects in Canada and the United States, both with Roman Catholic and Lutheran congregations. He is a frequent presenter at conferences and workshops on various topics related to the building and renovation of worship spaces, as well as issues on the liturgical environment, the history and components of liturgical design, sacramental theology, the spiritual and ecclesial dimensions of liturgical ministries, and the pastoral implications of liturgical rituals, documents, and praxis. He has written a number of articles for liturgical publications and his particular interest is understanding and exploring the relationship between ritual space and ritual event.
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