The workbook

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Contents

How to F ind : Resources / Texts 2 Resource Browser Folders 4 Readings and Prayers of the Day 6 Mass texts other than Readings 7 Saints and Celebrations 9 Key Liturgy Documents 10 Scripture Readings for Mass 11 Readings for Masses with Children 14 Living Liturgy Notes for Sundays 15 Ritual Texts 16 Liturgy of the Hours 17 Hymn Titles and Indexes 18 Planning Checklists 19 Clip Art 20 Sunday Liturgy of the Word for Children 21 Sunday Celebrations of the Word 22 How to : Search for Groups of Texts – Go Get 23 Prepare a Liturgy 24 Edit Texts 27 Choose Music for a Liturgy 28 Create a New Template 29 Prepare and edit a Liturgy Sheet or Booklet 30 Present a Slideshow or Projection Display 32 Publish to a Mobile Device 34 View instructional videos 38

What is LabOra Worship? LabOra Worship is a digital library of liturgical texts and resources.

It is also a suite of programs tailored to individual tasks. It is therefore important to identify what we want to do. We can then choose the appropriate program for the task.

Ident i fy the Task Choose the Program Page

Find all texts and resources Resources Tab 2

Find readings and texts for a celebration Liturgical Year Tab 6

Find groups of texts Go-Get 23

Prepare a liturgy Prepare Liturgy 24

Print a liturgy sheet/booklet Print 30

Prepare a Slideshow or Powerpoint Present 32

Publish to Mobile Devices Device Publishing 34

Watch tutorial videos Welcome Tab 38

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How to Find Texts — Resources The Resource tab is the window into all of LabOra’s resources and can be used for many tasks.

A) From the home screen, click on Resources to open the Resource Library. Texts and resources are arranged in folders according to the liturgical book in which they would be found. B) Click on the triangle beside each folder to display its contents and continue expanding folders until a list appears without triangle bullet points. Clicking on an un-bulleted item (eg Greeting) will list all options in the middle column. Clicking on one of these options will display the text in the right hand column. C) Clicking on the Copy icon will copy the text to the Clipboard where it can be pasted into Microsoft Word or other Word Processing program. D) To change the column width, position the cursor over the column divider until it changes to , hold down the left mouse button and drag to its new position.

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E) Use the Search window to find texts for a particular occasion such as Anzac Day.

More generic search terms such as ‘peace’ will return a large number of results because LabOra Worship II searches across the entire database. LabOra gives each search result a weighting according to its relevance and orders search results in descending order.

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The Resource Browser Folders

Roman Missal

Find Mass texts other than Readings, list of Saints and Church Documents on the liturgy and the liturgical year.

Lect ionar ies

Find Mass readings from the Jerusalem Bible, NRSV, CEV (Children’s Lectionary), Living Liturgy notes and The Introduction to the Lectionary.

Ritual Celebrat ions

Find scripture readings and other texts for the rituals of RCIA, Baptism, Confirmation, Marriage, Reconciliation, Pastoral Care of The Sick, Eucharistic Adoration, and funerals. Find the complete ritual documents as well as the Book of Blessings.

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Liturgy of the Hours

Find texts for Morning, Evening and Night prayer.

Hymnals

Find Hymn titles and indexes.

Other Resources

Find planning checklists, clip art, and prayers and activities for Children’s Liturgy of the Word. Also find texts for Sunday Celebration of the Word and Dedication of a Church and an Altar.

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Quickly Find Readings and Prayers for any Day — Liturgical Year

A) The Liturgical Year tab enables quick access to readings and prayers for any day or Celebration. B) Click on the day in the calendar to see the Collect and readings for that liturgical day from the Jerusalem Bible displayed in the right hand window. C) Click on the dropdown menu for other celebrations on this day, if there are any. D) Use the Calendar tab to easily navigate to other months.

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How to F ind Mass Texts Other Than Read ings

ROMAN MISSAL FOLDER The Roman Missal folder gives access to all Mass texts other than readings, including the entire rubric for the Order of Mass. It also includes information about feast days organised by date or by name and contains 4 key documents which provide instruction on the liturgy and the liturgical year.

Roman Missal

A) Click on the Roman Missal Folder, then the Roman Missal subfolder. Expand folders and click on individual items to see texts display. Use the Copy icon if required to paste in another program.

B) To collapse an expanded folder, click on the triangle bullet point beside its heading.

To display all the texts, including readings, for a particular day eg. Ash Wednesday, it is easier to prepare a liturgy for that day. This is covered in Prepare a Liturgy on page 23.

Loca te :

Collect (2 ADVENT) Apostles Creed

General Intercessions (6 EASTER) Year B Eucharistic Prayer

for Children II

Preface (AUSTRALIA DAY)

Solemn Blessings

Formulas for Dismissal of Catechumens

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Order of Mass

This is the complete Order of Mass with all rubrics which is located in the middle of a printed Roman Missal.

What is the purpose of the

Introductory Rites?

What is the Rite of Blessing and Sprinkling Holy Water?

When is the Gloria used?

How is the Liturgy of the Eucharist arranged?

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Saints and Celebrat ions

The Saints folder contains notes on the solemnities, feasts, memorials, optional memorials and other celebrations listed in the Ordo of Australia and New Zealand

These notes can be viewed by date or alphabetically by name.

All the saints and celebrations for a defined period eg August, can be more easily accessed via the Go Get menu outlined on p 22.

Find and Ident i fy :

Peter Chanel Peter To Rot

Benedict Assumption

Saint of your parish Your Christian name

Why is the rank of the saint significant?

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Key L i turgy Documents

Key Liturgy Documents in the Roman Missal folder include the General Instruction of the Roman Missal, Directory for Masses with Children, General Norms for the Liturgical Year and the Calendar and Directory for Sunday Celebrations in the Absence of a Priest.

Loca te :

General Instruction of the Roman Missal

Chapter III Particular Ministries

Directory for Masses with Children

Chapter I Introduction of Children to the Eucharistic Celebration

General Norms for the Liturgical Year

Chapter II The Calendar

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F ind ing Scr ipture Read ings for Mass

LECTIONARIES FOLDER Scripture readings for Mass are found in printed Lectionaries. The currently approved Lectionary for Australia and New Zealand uses the Jerusalem Bible (JB) translation for adult Masses.

JB I

In LabOra, JB I contains the Lectionary texts for all cycles of weekday and Sunday readings, organised according to their place in the liturgical year.

Locate these Jerusalem Bible read ings [JB I] and copy

them into a single Word document :

Wednesday of the third week of Advent – Gospel

1 January, Mary Mother of God [Christmas]

Third Sunday of Lent Year C Easter Vigil Readings [Easter Triduum]

Anzac Day [March/April]

Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ [Easter]

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JB I I

JB II will be less frequently used. It contains readings for Masses of Commons, Votive Masses and Masses for Various Needs and Occasions.

Loca te Jerusalem Bible read ings [JB II] suitable for the following:

Mass of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Votive Mass of the Sacred Heart

For Priests

For Rain

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NRSV

LabOra includes the New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) translation of readings for Sunday Mass and some major feasts.

Loca te NRSV read ings for the following days:

Epiphany of the Lord

Saints Peter and Paul

Fifth Sunday of Easter Year A

First Sunday of Advent Year C

Easter Vigil with Year B Gospel

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CONTEMPORARY ENGLISH VERSION (CEV)

The Lectionary for Masses with Children uses the Contemporary English Version translation. Sunday readings are included for Years A, B and C, but the Children’s Lectionary does not allocate individual readings to every weekday. Instead it has indexed collections of readings appropriate to the seasons, sacraments, and various needs and occasions.

THE CEV THEMES

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F ind ing L iv ing L i turgy Notes for Sundays

LECTIONARIES FOLDER Living Liturgy Notes for Sundays are designed to help those preparing the Sunday liturgy – presiders, liturgy groups, musicians and others.

Focusing the Word identifies key words and phrases in the readings. Connecting the Word relates the gospel to the other readings and to culture. Understanding the Word is a commentary on an aspect of the gospel. At liturgy we try to name what God is doing among us and to respond to God’s presence by thanks and praise. Therefore, ideally, preparation would begin by:

1. Listening to our own experiences

• what is happening in our lives this week? • what is making headlines? • what is happening in our own community? • what are the good things? • what are the challenging things?

2. Listening and reflecting on the word of God

• what feast or season is being celebrated? • what scripture readings are set down for the

day?

• what scripture readings are appropriate for the theme we have chosen?

• what do we hear when we read the readings? what do they mean?

3. Making connections

• what does the word of God ask of us? • to what change or conversion does it call us? • what difference would it make if we put

today’s word into practice? • what texts, music, environment, gestures

could facilitate this response?

Look at the L iv ing L i tu rgy Notes fo r the next fou r Sundays .

Which ones might be useful to you?

How would you use these notes to prepare a liturgy?

Also have a look at the Notes for Leaders of Children’s Liturgy of the Word which is found in Other Resources.

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F ind ing Ri tual Texts

LECTIONARIES FOLDER There are eight complete rituals, together with introductions and all rubrics, identical to the printed rituals. Scripture readings and ritual texts other than readings can be accessed separately.

A) In the Resource Browser click on the Ritual Celebrations folder.

B) Click on the Lectionary tab to find scripture readings.

C) Click on The Rites to find ritual texts other than readings.

D) To see the complete ritual document including rubrics, click on Rituals (Documents). To copy the chapter to Word, click on the Copy icon.

E) The Book of Blessings is also located in the Ritual Celebrations folder. It is a 600+ page ritual that is an invaluable source of rites and texts for a large variety of occasions.

Lo ca t e b l e ss i ng s f o r t h e fo l l ow i ng :

* Engagement * Students and teachers * Beginning and end of school year

* New building * Mothers’ day / Fathers’ day * Inauguration of readers

* Birthday * The Sick * Welcoming new parishioners

Make a l i s t o f the b less ings tha t might be usefu l to you .

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F ind ing Texts for Morn ing and Evening Prayer

L ITURGY OF THE HOURS FOLDER

A) This section contains a simplified four week cycle of Morning and Evening Prayer arranged according to the day of the week.

B) It also includes Morning, Evening and Night Prayer texts arranged by individual elements.

C) To prepare a ritual of Morning Prayer, Evening Prayer or Night Prayer it is easier to Prepare a Liturgy (see page 23).

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F ind ing Hymn T i t les and Indexes

HYMNALS FOLDER

Hymn titles and indexes are provided for twelve of the most commonly used hymnals. In addition, the Public Domain Hymnal collection includes lyrics for over 100 hymns in the public domain.

Our Parish Repertoire has over 1,000 fully-indexed hymn titles.

Service Music is a collection of the most commonly used service music or the parts of the Mass that do not change.

All hymnals are indexed by Hymns for the Church year, Hymns for the Rites of the Church, Hymns for the Liturgy of the Hours and Topics.

When selecting a hymn from the list, Copyright information will appear in the far right column. This must be cited if printing song lyrics in bulletins or displaying on a projection screen. Click on the Copy icon and then paste where required.

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F ind ing Planning Check l ists

OTHER RESOURCES FOLDER

Planning checklists are one-page summaries of decisions and choices for liturgy preparation. They are models only and should be saved as a Word document and adapted as needed.

Have a l oo k a t :

Writing Intercessions

Sunday Music Selection

Children’s Liturgy of the Word

What othe r check l i s ts m igh t be usefu l to you?

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F ind ing Cl ip Ar t

OTHER RESOURCES FOLDER

There are over one thousand clip art images, indexed for Seasons, Sacraments, Symbols, Biblical references and Miscellaneous ( People, Events, Flora/Fauna, Other).

A) Click on the Other Resources Folder and then Clip Art. Select one of the 5 categories.

B) Click on an item in the second column to display relevant clip art.

C) Click each icon to display its clip art image below.

D) Click copy to paste the clipart directly into a document.

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F ind ing L i turgy of the Word for Ch i ldren Resources

OTHER RESOURCES FOLDER

These resources are for occasions when children leave the church for their own Liturgy of the Word on Sunday. This is the complete list of Notes to help leaders prepare the liturgy, Introductions, Chorus Plays, Liquid Pictures, Creative Reflections and General Intercessions. To see all the resources for a particular Sunday you will need to prepare a liturgy for that day, using the Liturgy of the Word for Children outline. See How to Prepare a Liturgy, page 23.

L o c a t e t h e f o l l ow i n g r e s ou r c e s f o r n e x t Su n da y :

Leader’s Notes

How to Receive the Word

General Intercessions.

How might these be useful in a school situation?

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F ind ing Sunday Ce lebrat ions of the Word

OTHER RESOURCES FOLDER

These texts are for use in Sunday celebrations of the Word in those communities when a priest is not available. They are a useful resource also for other prayer services.

Have a look at each of the items in the Sunday

Celebration of the Word folder.

How might you use these resources?

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F ind ing Groups of Texts

GO GET The Resource Browser is useful for finding individual texts, but tedious for finding groups of texts such as all the readings for a Sunday or for the entire week. This is where the Go-Get program is useful. Sunday Jerusalem Bible Readings, Sunday Liturgy of the Word for Children readings, Sunday Intercessions, Living Liturgy Notes, Weekday Readings and Notes on Saints can be collected into a document for a single Sunday or for any period of time. Weekday readings and notes on the saints for a given period can also be collated. Choose a time period by typing in dates or clicking on the date square to select from the calendar. Click on the texts you wish to retrieve and click ‘Create’. Print directly from this window or copy texts to another location.

If NRSV or CEV readings are needed they will need to be found individually through the Resource Browser.

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PREPARE A L ITURGY To create a liturgy for a particular day, go straight to Prepare Liturgy and LabOra will select the relevant texts. From the liturgy preparation window selections can be made from available choices and booklets printed if necessary.

A. Click on Prepare Liturgy

B. Select Template by choosing from the pull –down menu

C. Choose a date by typing it in or clicking on the calendar icon.

D. The correct liturgical day that corresponds with the date you have chosen will automatically appear below. If there is more than one choice of feast to celebrate on a particular day, use the pull-down menu to select.

E. Give the liturgy a name.

F. Click on Prepare to start creating the liturgy.

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The following screen will appear:

A. Hover the cursor over an item, eg. Entrance Procession, to display a blue bar of options relating to that item.

B. Hovering over an item will display relevant guidelines in the right hand column.

C. The left hand column displays the liturgy outline. Clicking on one of these parts of the Mass will display only this section for planning. To view the entire Mass plan again, click on the Mass title immediately above ‘THE INTRODUCTORY RITES’

D. Clicking on a heading will display available options as alternatives at the bottom right of the screen. Click on one of these options and then select “Choose This” from the pop up window. The text will then replace the default given in the liturgy planner. This detailed plan window displays only those texts relevant to the liturgy being prepared.

E. As items are completed, click on the coloured dot beside it to change the colour to green. Set items which are in progress to yellow, and items which are still to do in red. This is especially helpful where more than one person may be working on the preparation of a liturgy.

F. When all selections have been made and liturgy preparation is complete, booklets can be printed. To open the printing window, click on the Print icon at the top right of the screen.

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Choose From Avai lable Opt ions

Other alternatives can be added, beyond those immediately given, as in C above.

A. To import texts or hymns from the Resource Browser, click on Alternatives in the blue bar. This will open a linking window to the Resource Browser, with the most relevant alternatives listed first.

B. In this example, LabOra has selected the Service Music hymnal as an alternative for those wishing to sing rather than say the Lamb of God. Clicking on Service Music will open a list of Mass settings from which to choose.

C. Click to highlight the setting of your choice.

D. Click ‘Choose this’ to insert it into the liturgy plan.

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Edit Texts

The ability to modify existing texts can be useful for a variety of functions such as writing General Intercessions.

A. To change the heading, click over the text to highlight it and type the required text in its place.

B. From the planning window, click Edit.

C. Edit the text directly within this window, or delete it and paste in the required text.

D. This editing window also gives immediate access to the Resource Browser. Texts can be copied and pasted from another location within LabOra.

E. The guidelines for the relevant part of the mass being edited appear on the left hand side.

F. To save the new text and have it appear in the liturgy plan, click Save & Close.

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CHOOSE MUSIC

A. Place the cursor over the part of the Mass for which music is to be added, and click Alternatives.

B. Expand the Hymnals Folder and select one.

Service Music refers to those parts of the Mass that do not change (Kyrie, Gloria, Holy Holy, Memorial Acclamation, Amen, Lamb of God, Our Father etc). This is a combined hymnal that lists titles from various hymnals used in Australia and New Zealand.

C. Clicking on a hymn title will display citation information in the right hand column.

D. To insert this text into the liturgy plan, select Choose this.

Edit this text or add hymn words to the liturgy plan by selecting ‘Edit’. (See A in Edit Texts section above).

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NEW TEMPLATE The Mass outline is very detailed and may not be needed in its entirety for some liturgies. Headings in the Mass outline frame can be renamed, deleted or added.

A. Click on New Template B. Select the liturgy to be modified C. Give the new template an easily identifiable name D. Click on Prepare. E. The new template will appear in a list of created templates which can be opened again by clicking on Open Template.

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A. To remove an item, place the cursor over that item and click Remove. B. To rename an item, click on the heading to highlight, type over with the required text and press Enter. C. To add an item to the outline, move the cursor over the heading which will occur immediately before the new item to be added. Click on New Heading. Type the required text in the pop up window and Save & Close. D. Where alternatives are chosen in this New Template window, they will be saved as part of the template and will be automatically selected whenever the template is opened from the Open Template command on the Home Page.

HOW TO PREPARE AND EDIT A L ITURGY SHEET OR BOOKLET Once choices have been made or texts prepared in the Prepare Liturgy window it is easy to prepare a liturgy sheet or booklet by clicking on the Print tab at the top right of the screen. There are a variety of possible contents and formats.

The content of the liturgy sheet or booklet will be based on the choices already made through the Prepare Liturgy window. A. From the Liturgy Preparation window, click on the Print tab.

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B. Work from left to right across the top of the screen. Select the required Page Format and number of columns by clicking on the pull down menu.

C. Decide how much content will be displayed in the printed booklet. Choose from Brief format, Comprehensive Format, Music selections only, Readings selections only or Presider’s Guide. The text displayed in the print window will automatically adjust to reflect this choice. If unsure what to include it may be best to use either the People’s Comprehensive Format or the Presider’s Guide and then delete or edit unwanted texts and headings.

D. Choose a Title font for the headings. The size and colour of the headings can also be formatted here.

E. Choose a Paragraph Font for the body text. Again, size and colour of this text can be formatted easily.

F. The Font window provides a more specific range of tools which may be applied to selected words or sections of text.

G. The Paragraph window allows formatting of indents, spacing and line or page breaks within the document.

H. The document can be printed from this window by clicking ‘Print’.

I. Alternatively, the document can be exported and saved as a PDF or Word document. This is useful when wanting to compare several different options for printing. LabOra will only save one version of each document, so it is best to save progressive attempts as separate Word or PDF documents.

J. Text can be added or deleted directly into the print window if necessary.

K. Switching back to the Liturgy Preparation window is possible at any time, by clicking on the Edit tab on the top right of screen.

L. Jump to any given point in the document by clicking on its title in the outline frame.

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HOW TO PRESENT A SL IDESHOW AND PROJECTION DISPLAY

Present LabOra Present is a tool for making a PowerPoint presentation of the Liturgy you have prepared.

Select content for Present

Check every item in the Left Panel that you wish to be included in the presentation. NOTE: The text of Present is retrieved from the planning/edit-window and NOT from the Print tab. This means that changes you make to a print document do not appear in the presentation. Rather, you must format the text within the Present tab.

General options for a presentation

Font size Select standard font size for all slides in the presentation.

Larger/smaller font

Arrow Up: Larger font Arrow Down: Smaller font

Blank between items Click to insert a blank slide between each item in the presentation.

Select all Select all items in the Liturgy to be inserted into the presentation.

Format Select the display format for the presentation. Possible options are: 1280 x 720 1280 x 1024

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Columns Select the number of columns to be used as standard for the presentation. Possible choices are one or two.

Set margins Click on 'set margins' to move the position of the text on the slide. Pull the arrow to drag the text box to the required size and then move the box within the frame. For example, you may wish to have a white border around the text when it displays on the screen.

Changes to a single slide

Click on the tab beside ' Entire Presentation' which identifies the particular slide you wish to change. Changes made in this tab will only affect the one slide selected.

Font size Set font for the current slide, smaller or larger than the standard slides in the presentation.

Larger/smaller font

Arrow Up: Larger font Arrow Down: Smaller font

Columns Select a different number of columns than what will be presented in the rest of the presentation.

Back to default Change all selections for current slide back to the font type for the entire presentation.

Create PowerPoint Click to produce a PowerPoint presentation based on your selections.

NOTE: MS Word must be available when the presentation is made in LabOra Worship. You will never see it, but it is used in the background when LabOra Worship is producing a presentation. You need to have Office 2007 or later versions.

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Device publ ish ing

What is this? Device publishing is a new feature for digital publishing of a prepared liturgy to hand-held devices.

A liturgy prepared by a single user can be available to anyone with a hand-held device who has installed the @Church App within a given geographical location.

This is how it works:

When planning a liturgy you can click on the tab: «Device Publishing» and select which content of the liturgy to publish.

Members of the congregation can then open the @Church App (available for iPhone, Android and Windows Phone). The App will find, based on the geographical coordinates of the location, any content that is available for this location. Each person will see the name of the liturgy on their hand-held device which they can then click on to view the liturgical texts.

This is the workflow:

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Digital Publishing in LabOra Worship - Online Plan the Liturgy as you normally do in the design window. Click on the tab: «Device Publishing».

Select content Mark the items you want to publish in the Left Panel. The right window will show a preview of the published content.

Find Location Click on the button «Find Location» and type in the address of the church.

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Select the correct address alternative (if more than one is suggested).

You may switch to Satellite view:

You can fine-tune the position by moving the «pin» in the map. Click OK. The coordinates (Latitude and Longitude) are now visible:

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Give the location a name:

Choose the period when the content will be available:

The content will be available from the beginning of the day until the end of that day.

Upload Click on the button «Upload». The content will now be published, linked to the geographical area you have selected and available for a mobile phone, iPad or Tablet that is located in that area.

If you click «Upload» again at a later time, the most recent content will be uploaded and the previous upload is deleted.

Delete Click on the button «Delete» to delete the uploaded content.

Device Publishing on the Mobile Phone/Tablet

Mobile devices The App for Device Publishing is available for Android, Windows Phone and iPhone. Search in AppStore or scan the QR code below. The name of the App is: «@Church».

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INSTRUCTIONAL VIDEOS

Click on the Welcome tab.

A. Click on the play button to watch the embedded instructional video which provides an overview of features and some general information about where to find resources in the new LabOra.

B. To watch a range of instructional videos about various specific features of the new LabOra, click on the textual prompt underneath the embedded video.

You could also visit the Liturgy Brisbane website where the links to these videos are listed under the LabOra tab. Click on the Liturgy Brisbane logo at the bottom of the page to be directed to the website.