Increase Our Faith -- Year A

Author: David Hass

8.5 X 11" -- 224 pages

Increase Our Faith is an invaluable and comprehensive resource for intergenerational assemblies, community gatherings, parish meetings, retreat days, and more.

This collection of prayer services by liturgical composer David Haas contains services for each week of YEAR A as well as key feast days. The services are written in the spirit of whole community catechesis, and can be used with both adult groups and intergenerational gatherings.

Each prayer service features the following elements:

--an invitation to prayer

--a reading of the gospel from the previous Sunday or feast day

--"questions of the week," one for adults and one for children, based on the gospel reading, which breaks open the Word for both faith sharing and personal reflection

--a second question that offers an opportunity to connect The gospel reading to the particular focus of the meeting or gathering at hand

--a litany of faith that can be sung or spoken

--a prayer and final blessing

A unique feature of this collection is the inclusion of music by David Haas, including song refrains that can be used at various times during the services.