Here is what readers have to look forward to in the May issue of MODERN LITURGY.

Thomas Simons gives ML readers some guidelines for choosing communion vessels. Are your vessels "Sunday best" or "everyday?" Find out how to select quality communionware.

Just after Triduum ends is a good time to take stock of the annual environment plan. Do your liturgical environments reflect and foreshadow the Triduum all year long? Nick Wagner, editor of ML, asks some probing questions.

Are you a cyber-newbie? Maureen Jais-Mick gives readers the basics for finding our way around online. If you are aching to break beyond the boundaries of AOL, here's how.

Helen Doohan provides us an excerpt from her new book *Corinthian Correspondence: The Best of Times, The Worst of Times.* In this article, find out what you can learn from the Corinthian church about liturgy in your own community.

Is your music ministry shrinking? Fewer volunteers? Smaller budget? Carol Finney gives some advice on adapting to these challenges without losing the spirit.

And every month ML's pages are filled with helpful advice from our regular columnists. The Planning Guide authors provide background in spirituality, ritual planning and music selection for the Triduum. Readers get monthly help from the "Lector Workshop." Homilists and catechists won't want to miss "Year of Matthew." And "Choreographing the Catechumenate" always has helpful advice for your RCIA rituals. For liturgical catechesis for the whole parish, turn to the "Bulletin Inserts." ML also includes reviews of current books, audio-visuals, and music in every issue. And there is still more. Take a look for yourself.

MODERN LITURGY is a professional magazine for members of the parish ministry team. It is dedicated to exploring the connection between liturgy and life, unpacking the treasures of the Roman liturgy, and helping ministers use the visual, musical, lively, poetic, and environmental arts to shape liturgies to their local culture.

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--Nick Wagner
Editor