Wednesday, September 23, 2015

SCL Registration Deadline Extended to Sept. 26th

Jennifer Donelson-Nowicka

Sept. 26th is the new deadline. 

Register here: liturgysociety.org/conference.html

The Most Reverend Salvatore J. Cordileone, Archbishop of San Francisco, will deliver the keynote address: “We Are Bound to Give Thanks to God Always: Worship That is Right and Just” at the Union League Club on Thursday, October 1. And on Friday, October 2, he will celebrate a Solemn Pontifical Mass (Extraordinary Form), accompanied by a sixteen-voice choir, at the historic Basilica of St. Patrick's Old Cathedral.

Two days of scholarly lectures follow at the Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen Center for Thought and Culture. Topics range from the justice of worship in St. Thomas Aquinas to the styles and hierarchies of Gregorian chant melodies. The Pastoral Track of the conference, held at the Basilica Parish House, will offer practical workshops for parish and diocesan personnel—everything from financing a parish music program, to liturgical preaching, to "unwreckovation."

Our distinguished speakers are:

Matthew Alderman
Taylor J. Bartlette
Fr Thomas Buffer
Fr Daniel Cardó
Christopher Carstens
Jennifer Donelson
Robert Fastiggi
Carl G. Fougerousse
David Hughes
Fr Paul J. Keller, OP
Fr Bryan Kromholtz, OP
Fr Uwe Michael Lang
William Mahrt
Michon Matthiesen
Brandon Otto
Christopher D. Owens
Fr Joseph F. Previtali
Fr George Rutler
Jonathan Ryan
Fr Innocent Smith, OP
Fr Nicholas Zientarski

Among the other beautiful liturgies to be offered, all free and open to the public, Archbishop Cordileone will preside Friday evening at Pontifical Vespers (Extraordinary Form), again accompanied by a professional choir.

To see the full conference schedule, and to register, go to: http://liturgysociety.org/conference.html.

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