Living Liturgy™

Living Liturgy™ 2025 provides practical and engaging content from expert authors to enrich your communal prayer and ministry. Trusted by parishes around the country (and world!), Living Liturgy™ offers Scripture readings, insightful reflections, robust liturgical formation, and contextual background information for Sundays, solemnities, and additional feasts of liturgical and national importance. This best-selling annual resource is ideal for parish ministers, liturgists, pastors, planning committees, adult faith formation groups, and anyone who wishes to explore the connections between liturgy and life. 

An entirely new resource created for each liturgical year, Living Liturgy™ gives your team the spiritual preparation they need to serve in their ministries, integrating daily living, prayer, and study in an inviting and easy-to-use format. Original art by Ruberval Monteiro da Silva, OSB, complements the text and invites further reflection on the gospel of the day. This indispensable guide deepens a liturgical spirituality and strengthens the worship experience for the whole parish.

Featured Liturgical Texts

• Collect
• First Reading
• Responsorial Psalm
• Second Reading
• Gospel Acclamation
• Gospel

• Reflecting on the Gospel
• Preparing to Proclaim
• Psalmist Preparation
• Making Connections
• Homily Points
• Model Penitential Act
• Model Universal Prayer (Prayer of the Faithful)
• Liturgy and Music
• Living Liturgy
• Prompts for Faith-Sharing

• Calendar-dated
• Pronunciation guide
• Full text of readings in sense lines
• Key words and phrases that focus on the gospel

Katharine E. Harmon is a pastoral liturgist and American Catholic historian currently serving as Project Director, Obsculta Preaching Initiative, School of Theology and Seminary, Saint John's University in Collegeville, Minnesota. A graduate of the University of Notre Dame's liturgical studies program, Harmon has contributed both scholarly and pastoral pieces on topics of liturgical renewal and American Catholic faith and practice, including There Were Also Many Women There: Roman Catholic Lay Women in the American Liturgical Movement, 1926-1959 (Collegeville: Liturgical Press, 2012). Barbara E. Reid, general editor of the Wisdom Commentary series, is a Dominican Sister of Grand Rapids, Michigan. She is the president of Catholic Theological Union and the first woman to hold the position. She has been a member of the CTU faculty since 1988 and also served as vice president and academic dean from 2009 to 2018. She holds a PhD in biblical studies from The Catholic University of America and was also president of the Catholic Biblical Association in 2014-2015.

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