In October, the Office of Worship in Phoenix, AZ will be hosting an International Symposium on the liturgy in conjunction with the Department of Liturgy at the University of Vienna and the School of Liturgy at Mundelein Seminary in Chicago. The conference will focus its attention on the American Interim Missal used between 1965 and 1970 and its impact on the development of the Novus Ordo.
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Council and Continuity
Jun 15
Cardinal Burke’s speech was titled “The restoration of church discipline and evangelisation.”
We need scholars who can study the past, but who also listen to the human heart today, scholars who have personally experienced the love of God and who share it with others, scholars whose commitment to common prayer is steady, and scholars who know what it is to be human today, an individual loved by God, yet part of a community that tolerates differences, progresses in technology, and advances on the path toward redemption. It will take prophetic, courageous, committed, and faithfilled scholars to make pastoral liturgy flourish.
To celebrate its anniversary, the Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music in Rome is putting on a large-scale conference beginning next week.
June 20-23 at Saint John’s: the Collegeville Conference on Music, Liturgy, and the Arts: “Implementing the New Missal: Anxiety, Renewal, Opportunity.” With Michael Joncas, Paul Turner, Vicki Klima, Kim Kasling, Anthony Ruff, Michael Silhavy…
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Liturgy and immigration
Tarheel Workshops
Feb 20
I would suggest that the key to the positive response to the three workshops I have facilitated thus far has been the result of the decision our task force made to not simply present the text of the Roman Missal but rather to use this as an opportunity to invite the faithful to consider more deeply how the liturgy brings us into interaction with the living presence of God — something the liturgy does regardless of the particular language or translation.
Paul Turner and Dewfall
Feb 9
“So, let me just warn you about the power of prayer: you can study the words of a prayer, critique the words, teach the words and say the words, but if you’re not looking you may miss out on something more important than all these things: those words are studying you, they are learning you, teaching you and forming you. They will put you to work; they will send you out on mission.”
Over 1,500 people attended the 49th Annual Southwest Liturgical Conference Study Week in Salt Lake City. The study week, which focused on the implementation of the Roman Missal, was a huge success.
Update on Vox Clara
Feb 7
About half of the members completed their terms and were replaced by new appointments. Additional members and advisors joined them. The role of Vox Clara seems to be expanding.