Those in the region would do well to attend this conference. Were it not for other obligations, I should have attended this conference myself. Both the speakers and the subjects to be spoken upon are of the utmost importance. The NLM will, of course, provide a report on the conference.
Fota II International Liturgy Conference
Benedict XVI on Church Art and Architecture
12-13 July 2009
Sheraton Hotel, Fota, Co. Cork
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PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME
Sunday, 12 July 2009
4 pm
Conference Opening
Chair: Prof. D. Vincent Twomey, SVD
Joesph Ratzinger on Aesthetics and the Liturgy
4.15 pm Dr. Joseph Murphy
The Fairest and the Formless: The Face of Christ as Criterion for Christian beauty according to Joesph Ratzinger
5 pm
Fr. Daniel Gallagher
The Liturgical Consequences of Thomistic Aesthetics: exploring some philosophical aspects of Joseph Ratzinger’s Aesthetics
6 pm
Dr. Janeth Rutherford
Eastern iconoclasm and the defence of divine beauty
Monday, 13 July 2009
9 am
Dr. Helen Dietz
The Nuptial Meaning of Classic Church Architecture
9.45
Fr. Uwe Michael Lang, Cong. Or.
Louis Bouyer and Church Architecture: Resourcing Benedict XVI’s Introduction to The Spirit of the Liturgy
11 am
Mass
3 pm
His Eminence George Cardinal Pell, Archbishop of Sydney
Benedict XVI on Beauty: Issues in the Tradition of Christian Aesthetics
4 pm
Prof. Duncan Stroik
The Church Building as an Image of Eternity: Cardinal Ratzinger and the Architecture of Ecclesia
5 pm
Mr. Ethan Anthony
The Third Revival: New Gothic and Romanesque Catholic Architecture in North America
6 pm
Dr. Alcuin Reid
‘Noble Simplicity’ Revisited
7 pm
Dr. Neil Roy
The Galilee Chapel: A Medieval Notion Comes of Age
Further information is available at: colman.liturgy@yahoo.co.uk
Registration forms at: www.scscLiturgy.com
