Intermonastic Working Group for Liturgy

The Intermonastic Working Group for Liturgy is an intermonastic working group founded in 1967 that produces and publishes texts and music for liturgical use. It operates as a collaborative body drawing together monastic communities around a shared purpose: preparing, editing and issuing liturgical texts and music. Its output is published material — worship texts and musical settings — rather than consumer goods, and its audience is primarily monastic and liturgical communities. The group's work sits at the intersection of religious publishing and liturgical practice. By producing and publishing texts and music for liturgical use, it functions as a specialized publisher and editorial collective within the wider monastic world. Its website is hosted at monasteria.org, which serves as the online home for the group's activities and publications. Because the group is a working body rather than a commercial corporation, its organizational form is collaborative and intermonastic: it is constituted by the participation of monasteries rather than by shareholders. Its country association is the Netherlands, and it has been active since its founding in 1967.

The Intermonastic Working Group for Liturgy was founded in 1967 as an intermonastic working group. Its purpose, as recorded in public reference data, is the production and publication of texts and music for liturgical use. The group thus emerged within the broader context of monastic collaboration on worship and liturgy, taking shape as a dedicated body for preparing and issuing liturgical materials. Since its founding, the group has concentrated on the editorial and publishing work of liturgical texts and music. Its online presence is maintained at monasteria.org, where information about the group and its work is hosted. The group is associated with the Netherlands. As an intermonastic body, its structure is collaborative rather than corporate: it is constituted by the participation of monastic communities rather than by commercial ownership. Its history is therefore one of sustained editorial and publishing activity in service of liturgical use, rather than of commercial expansion or product diversification.

• 1967

  The Intermonastic Working Group for Liturgy is founded as an intermonastic working group.

A specialized intermonastic publisher and editorial body for liturgical texts and music.

• Texts for liturgical use

  Published texts prepared for liturgical use.

• Music for liturgical use

  Published music prepared for liturgical use.

1. 1Intermonastic Working Group for Liturgywikidata.org
2. 2Intermonastic Working Group for Liturgy websitemonasteria.org