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| The diocese will uphold the liturgical life of the Church as a high priority by offering effective assistance to parishes and individuals in providing liturgical formation, guidance and training. |
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The diocese and parishes will make a commitment to provide quality faith formation for youth, recognizing and supporting the family as the primary educators. |
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Parishes will provide directors/coordinators of faith formation and youth ministry. |
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The diocese will publish a list of current faith formation guidelines for grades 1-12 and sacramental preparation. |
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The diocesan office of faith formation will provide/promote youth faith formation programs in parishes that include all generations. |
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Emphasize the teaching of social justice issues. |
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Faith formation programs in parishes will provide opportunities for student exchange or day trip programs to other parishes and will encourage participation in diocesan youth camps and rallies where young people get a chance to work together. |
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Training and guidelines should be provided to help ensure quality religious educators for youth of the diocese. |
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Diocesan offices will develop parish/deanery training programs for clergy and laity. The Diocesan leadership will encourage interaction and collaboration between pastors and lay leadership and will commit pastors to use the gifts of their lay ministers. |
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Ongoing formation programs in collaborative ministry, homiletics and multi-cultural ministry would be developed and required for all clergy. |
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Training programs would be developed for parish leadership skills such as conducting a parish meeting or a prayer service. |
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Training programs would be developed for those leading sacramental preparation such as baptism, marriage and RCIA. |
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A Master Catechist program would be developed for advanced ministry training using the lay ministry program or its equivalent as a foundation. |
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The Office of Religious Education and the Office of Native concerns will provide common culturally relevant material for the religious education of Lakota youth and adults for their sacramental preparation. |
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Develop culturally sensitive training for religious education teachers working with Lakota youth. |
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Develop a mentoring program for religious education teachers working with Lakota youth. |
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Develop and properly implement guidelines for reception of the sacraments. |
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Develop an awareness that the public worship of the Church among the Lakota people must reflect their culture. |
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Establish an inculturation committee in every Lakota parish and mission. |
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Provide that every diocesan-wide liturgy and prayer service reflect some aspect of Lakota culture In its celebration. |
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Issue a pastoral letter concerning the giftedness of Lakota people and the importance of inculturation in our faith life as a diocese. |
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Establish a prominent place in the Cathedral to recognize Lakota culture and religious heritage. |
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Recognizing the Eucharist as the source and summit of our Christian life and the centrality of the sacraments in the life of the faithful, the parish and the diocesan family, we present the following strategy: Diocesan liturgical personnel (i.e. a director and/or a liturgical commission and/or bishop's representative) and the parishes will work together to educate, form and train priests, liturgical ministers and assemblies in what it means to have an effective and reverent celebration of the Eucharist, other sacraments, sacramentals and other devotions thus enabling a more full, conscious, active participation in the liturgical and spiritual life of their own parish and the diocese. |
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SHARE THE VISION |
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Dedicate one Pastoral Ministry Days sharing a vision of what effective and reverent liturgical celebrations are; explaining how our diocese will achieve more effective and reverent liturgical celebrations in our parishes; |
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The bishop would write a pastoral letter on liturgy; |
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The bishop and vocations director will make an assessment of the current effectiveness of the liturgical education/formation of the seminaries our diocese use. A reassessment will be done periodically. |
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FORM PARISH LITURGY COMMITTEES |
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The diocesan liturgical personnel will develop a first draft of diocesan guidelines for parish liturgy committees. |
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The parish or parish group with the support and cooperation of the pastors will form a liturgy committee and establish a chairperson. |
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Parish liturgy committees in each deanery will select a deanery representative to participate in a diocesan commission and act as a liaison between the diocesan personnel and the parishes. |
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EDUCATE, FORM and TRAIN PARISHES |
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The diocesan liturgical personnel and/or parish liturgy committees working with pastors, will develop resources for having educational "spots" associated with or in the context of the weekend liturgy. |
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Diocesan liturgical personnel will develop a monthly educational/formational column for publication in the West River Catholic. |
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Pastoral Ministry Days and Clergy Days will have a dedicated and required general session on some aspect of liturgy. |
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The diocesan liturgical personnel will develop guidelines for training all liturgical ministers. |
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Pastors working with the parish liturgy committee will develop and implement a training program for all liturgical ministers and conduct training sessions and commissioning at least once a year. |
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Working with the formation/education personnel of the diocese (i.e. office of religious education, youth commission, family life office) and parish, pastors and parish liturgy committees will give special attention to educate, train and including youth in liturgical celebrations in the parish and diocese. |
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Working with appropriate diocesan personnel (i.e. office of native concerns, inculturation task force, duly chosen representatives from the Hispanic community and other cultures in the diocese) the diocesan liturgical personnel, pastors and parish liturgy committees in parishes where it is appropriate, will give special attention to developing and maintaining inculturated liturgies on the diocesan and parish level. |
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Parish liturgy committees will have an ongoing education/formation program for their own members. |
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Parishes will hold annual liturgical educational/formation sessions in the parish and/or deanery. |
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Promote opportunities for Eucharistic adoration in every parish. |
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