FAQs
Devotions
Environment and Art
- Can you veil statues during Lent?
- Can you remove water from the font during Lent?
- How do you dispose old Paschal Candles?
- How do you dispose old Holy Oils?
- Where can my parish buy new oil vessels?
- What do the letters OC, OS, SC, and OI mean on the oil vessels?
- Where can my parish buy fair trade palms for Palm Sunday?
General
Initiation (RCIA)
- What is the Rite of Acceptance?
- How long does a person have to be a catechumen before they can be baptized?"
- If a Protestant is becoming Catholic, do you confirm them?
Liturgical Year
- What are some guidelines for the Triduum? What time can we begin the Easter Vigil in 2009?
- Do you have an Advent reconciliation service we can use?
- What are the Holy Days of Obligation?
Mass
- How do you write intercessions for Mass?
- Can you do a play or dramatize the Gospel during the Mass?
- How can we give Communion to someone who has a gluten allergy?
- Is there a blessing for Communion ministers we send to the sick?
- When should announcements be done during the Mass?
Ministers
- Do music ministers we hire, even for just one event, need to be fingerprinted?
- How do we commission our Communion ministers?
- How do we commission our other liturgical minsiters?
- Do you have guidelines for training Communion ministers?
Music
- When are we supposed to start the Communion song?
- When do the music minsiters receiving Communion?
- Can we sing a meditation song after Communion?
- How do you plan music for a wedding?
Prayers and Blessings
- Is there a special blessing for animals?
- Do you have a blessing for students before they take an exam?
- Is there a special prayer families can use to bless their homes at Epiphany?
- Do you have a blessing for parishioners who are moving away from the parish?
- Do you have a special blessing for a Filipino debut?
- Do you have a special blessing for graduates?
- Do you have a special blessing for secretaries?
- Do you have a special blessing for travelers
- Do you have a special blessing for firefighters and police officers?
- Do you have a child's prayer for his or her grandparent?
- Do you have a prayer for those in the military?
- Do you have a prayer we can use at our Thanksgiving dinner?
- Do you have a prayer for this time of economic crisis?
- Do you have a prayer for parents whose children are leaving home?
- Is there a special blessing for Confirmation candidates as they begin their preparation?