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The Bishops' Committee on the Liturgy is a standing committee of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops (NCCB). Additional information on worship can be found at their web site.


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Mass Schedule
 

Regular Schedule
Saturday 5:00 PM St. John's Church, Darwin
Sunday 8:30 AM St. Gertrude's Church, Forest City
Sunday 10:30 AM St. John's Church, Darwin
Wednesday* 8:30 AM St. John's Church, Darwin
Thursday* 8:00 AM St. John's Church, Darwin
Friday* 8:30 AM St. John's Church, Darwin
* Mass schedule may be changed as necessary. The second Wednesday mass is at the Cokato Manor.  The fourth Wednesday mass is at the Dassel Lakeside Nursing Home.  See the current bulletin for the weeks schedule

Join our Bishop, John C. Nienstedt in a prayer for vocations.


General Instruction of the Roman Missal
(Link to Current 1975 version)

On Holy Thursday, 2000, Pope John Paul II approved the revised Institutio Generalis Missalis Romani, popularly known as the General Instruction of the Roman Missal (Pending revised version). The present revision will replace the 1975 edition of the Institutio Generalis and is now available in Latin from the Vatican Press and in an English language study edition from the NCCB Secretariat for the Liturgy. This summary is offered to our readers in order to provide an introduction to some of the new aspects of this important liturgical document.

Secretariat for the Liturgy

The Bishops' Committee on the Liturgy is a standing committee of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops (NCCB). The Committee has the responsibility in the bishops' conference for all matters relating to the liturgy. The Secretariat for the Liturgy carries out the work of the Bishops' Committee on the Liturgy. It oversees the preparation and approval of liturgical books and texts and grants the concordat cum originali for publications of liturgical texts in the U.S.A.; it reviews all publications in the U.S. which contain excerpts from approved liturgical books. It also provides leadership in liturgical formation and sacramental catechesis, especially by means of its monthly BCL Newsletter and other publications. Finally it serves as a resource for bishops and diocesan liturgical commissions and offices of worship, and persons seeking advice (Q&A).