About The Roncalli Center

Based in the visionary documents produced at the Second Vatican Council, the Roncalli Center serves as a resource for liturgy and ministry in the church. Created to continue the prophetic work begun by Pope John XXIII and the Second Vatican Council, the Roncalli Center invites dialogue, collegiality, education and collaboration to share the wealth of gifts that exist within the rich diversity of communities.

A grassroots initiative in its seedling stage, the Roncalli Center operates through the work of volunteers. We teach, write, compose, network, offer retreats, days of reflection and donate time and money on behalf of the Roncalli Center.

Through prayer, work and community, we share the joy and hope of the Gospel to transform the world into the reign of God in this time and place.

Contributers and Presenters 

Denise Morency Gannon, BMus.Ed., MA, CPS, Founder of The Roncalli Center 

Denise's career spans over fifty years in education, the pastoral arts and healthcare. She earned a Bachelor of Music in Opera and Performance and a Bachelor of Music Education degree from Notre Dame College in Manchester, NH. While earning her Master's degree in Special Education, Denise's focus turned toward the developing movement in lay Catholic ministry and became one of the first full time parish music directors in the United States. She earned her Master's Degree in Pastoral Ministry from Boston College, followed by a three year program in the practice of spirituality at Boston College and became certified as a spiritual director. As Denise continued to accrue credits toward a post-Masters degree (CAES) from Boston College, she worked as a campus minister at Stonehill College, Emmanuel College nd Southcoast Health and continues to publish both as a composer and as an author.  

With a wide breadth of experience as a lay pastoral minister in the Catholic church, Denise offers a diversified range of experience that spans work parishes, schools, dioceses, hospitals, and artistic communities. To learn more about her work, click her Curriculum Vitae.

 

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Links

What Happened at Vatican II (YouTube, John O'Malley, courtesy of Vanderbuilt University)

Theology Library (Second Vatican Council) 

Mystagogical Reflections on the Roman Missal, Third Edition, FDLC

America Magazine

Commonweal Magazine

Denise Morency Gannon

GIA/World Library Publications

Liturgical Press

Oblation: Catechesis, Liturgy, and the New Evangelization

Oregon Catholic Press

Praytell

St. John's Abbey

The Newman Hymnal of the University of Notre Dame

United States Council of Catholic Bishops

Documents of the Second Vatican Council 

The North American Forum for the Catechumenate

A Concord Pastor

The Liturgical Conference

The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life 

Team RCIA 

To Bend Light 

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Resources

Guadet Mater Ecclesia: Pope John XXIII opening address of the Second Vatican Council

New Way of Being Church: The Second Vatican Council. Celebration Publications, Issue 41:10. Used with permission. 

What Happened at Vatican II by John W. O'Malley. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. Cambridge, Massachusettes. London, England. 

A Concise Guide to the Documents of Vatican II by Edward P. Hahnenberg. St. Anthony Messenger Press. Cincinnati, Ohio

Keys to the Council: Unlocking the Teaching of Vatican II by Richard R. Gaillardetz and Catherine E. Clifford. Liturgical Press, Collegeville, Minnesota. 

Voices from the Council. Edited by Michael R. Prendergast and M.D. Ridge. Pastoral Press, Portland, Oregon. 

The Good Pope: John XXIII & Vatican II: The Making of a Saint and the Remaking of the Church by Greg Tobin. HarperOne

Vatican II: The Battle for Meaning by Massimo Faggioli. Paulist Press

Vatican II: The Essential Texts, edited by Norman Tanner, SJ. Image Books

Vatican II: Fifty Years of Evolution and Revolution in the Catholic Church by Margaret Lavin. Novalis

Vatican II: Fifty Personal Stories, Edited by William Madges and Michael J. Daley. Orbis Book

My Journal of the Council by Yves Congar, OP. Translated by Sr. Mary John Ronayne, OP, and Mary Cecily Boulding. Liturgical Press. 

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In this election year: On Our Shoulders: A Catholic Call to Protect the Endagered Common Good  

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