Virginia Sloyan, the “heart and soul” of the Liturgical conference for years, has passed away at age 87 on March 11, National Catholic Reporter reports.
The Liturgical Conference starts as a yearly “liturgy week” in the 1940s, then developed further after Vatican II. The Conference began publishing book, producing a journal called Liturgy, and another called Homily Service, for which Sloyan served as editor. The Council merged with the inter-Lutheran Society for Worship, Music and the Arts in 1979, and according to its website it “now includes members of the United Methodist, Reformed, Lutheran, evangelical and Roman Catholic churches.”
Sloyan’s older brother is well-known theology Fr. Gerard Sloyan, and two of her older sisters, now deceased, were both nuns.
Among her publications are Parishes and Families: A Model for Christian Formation Through Liturgy, Children’s Liturgies, Touchstones for Liturgical Ministers, and Death: A Sourcebook about Christian Death.
The funeral Mass for Sloyan is being held today at Our Lady of Mercy in Potomac, Maryland. She donated her body to the Georgetown University Hospital for research.
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