Writer and Researcher

• Author on liturgical matters (e.g., General Principles of the Ceremonies)

• Contributing writer for various publications and online venues

• Researcher and compiler of ceremonial notes

• Possessor of an extensive rubrical library

• Developer of training resources (e.g., Server's Mass Response Card)

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Instructor and Speaker

• Provided on-site training for servers, sacristans, and clergy

• Hosted instructional seminars and conferences for servers, MCs, and women's altar sodalities

• Prepared trainers to teach serving positions and ceremonies

• Taught ceremonies in religious formative curriculum (1996-1998)

• Radio show host of Learning About the Roman Liturgy (LARL)

 

Consultant on Liturgical Matters

• Provided assistance and advice about:

- rubrics and liturgical law

- sanctuary design and appointments

- sacristy organization

- church architecture aspects and prescriptions (e.g., review of drawings)

- material requisites (vestments, sacred vessels, etc.)

• Referenced for suppliers, manufactures and restorers of liturgical materials

• Designed and assisted with altar construction and other church items

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Master of Ceremonies

• Extensive ceremonial experience as MC includes special rites and Pontifical functions (e.g., church dedication, consecration of altar, and ordinations)

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Publisher and Liturgical Printing

Advised, collaborated or assisted with the following publishers:

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Fraternity of St. Peter

• Designed and printed a USA Feasts Supplement for their Missale Romanum reprints (medium and travel sizes)

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Angelus Press

• Liturgical Calendar

• Roman Catholic Daily Missal

• Visitor at Mass

• Sacramentary insert for Priests' Mass DVD Kit

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Preserving Christian Publications

Reprint manager during a freelance tenure for these projects:

• Manual of Episcopal Ceremonies

• Blessed Be God

• The Mass: A Study of the Roman Liturgy (composed dust jacket biography)

• The Sources of Catholic Dogma (Denzinger)

• A Dictionary of the Psalter

• A Commentary on the Book of Psalms (composed dust jacket biography)

• Learning the New Breviary

• Catena Aurea

 

Canons Regular of St. John Cantius

• Ritus Servandus (compiling and printing errata sheet)

 

Liturgical Typography and Publishing

• Expertise in various aspects of liturgical printing and typography (type faces and layout)

• Reprinted several liturgically-related books and printed items:

- Benziger Brothers' 1962 Missale Romanum (this project required specialized knowledge about liturgical binding and other manufacturing details)

- Learning the Mass: A Guide for Priests and Seminarians

- Rubrics of the Roman Breviary and Missal

- The Roman Martyrology

- USA Breviary Propers insert

- Leonine Exorcism insert

• Designed and printed other related items, such as:

- Supplement of feasts proper to USA for 1962 Pustet Missale Romanum

- Compiled and designed Benziger missal's Table of Moveable Feasts (Tabella) supplement (updated to 2067 AD)

- Altar, Sacristy, Confessional and Leonine Prayers cards

- Cards to aid (novice) celebrant during Mass and Communion Rite

- Ritual booklets (e.g., Rite of Betrothal)

• Initiated importation of liturgical items into United States from Europe, such as:

- Liber Uusalis

- Diurnale Romanum

- Rituale Romanum

- Breviarium Romanum

- Versus Psalmorum

- Pustet Missale Romanum (standard and travel sizes)

- Altar and sanctuary cards (Asperges, Confiteor, Intonation)

- Breviary prayers inserts

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Ambassador for the Archconfraternity of St. Stephen

• Assisted with introduction of Guild of St. Stephen in United States (1996)

• Acted as National Secretary for Guild chapters in USA (1996-2006)

• Procured and supplied Guild materials

• Designed and printed various Guild items

• Oversaw formation of chapters throughout the world

• Founder, editor, writer and publisher of The Acolyte magazine (1998)

• Reprinted The Altar Servers' Handbook

• Founding president of several chapters

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