The Liturgy and the New Evangelization

Registration open and conference
schedule posted: http://liturgysociety.org/conference/

The Society for Catholic
Liturgy is pleased to announce its 2016 annual conference, to be held
at Our Lady of the Angels Cathedral in Los Angeles.

September 29 – October 1, 2016

We are especially pleased to host keynote and plenary
presentations by Archbishop José Gomez (Los Angeles), Bishop
Abdallah Elias Zaidan (Maronite Bishop of Eparchy of Our Lady of
Lebanon of Los Angeles), and Sister Esther Mary Nickel, R.S.M. (St. John
Vianney Seminary, Denver), as well as an update on the liturgical
activities of the U.S.C.C.B. by their representative Fr. Andrew Menke.

The conference will include sung liturgies in both the ordinary
(pontifical) and extraordinary forms of the Roman rite as well as the
Maronite rite (pontifical), along with sung vespers.

Saturday features a Spanish-language track.

Registration, more information on the conference venue, and bios of our
distinguished speakers are available at the SCL’s website: www.liturgysociety.org.

Preliminary conference schedule:

Thursday, September 29

3:00pm Registration and
Welcome Reception

5:00pm Sung Mass (Stational
– Ordinary Form)

6:00pm Opening Banquet
with address by Archbishop Gomez “Popular Piety, Liturgy, and the New
Evangelization”

Friday, September 30

8:00am Divine Liturgy
(Maronite)

9:00am Continental
Breakfast

9:30am Keynote: Bishop
Elias Zaidan, “The Liturgy and the Church Persecuted”

11:00am Concurrent
Sessions

(1) Academic Track: James Pauley,
Renewing Liturgical Catechesis: Towards the Cultivation of Desire
for God
(2) Academic Track: Michon
Matthiesen, “The Eighth Day”: the Evangelizing Potential of
Liturgical Time
(3) Pastoral Track: Andrew Casad,
Preparing the Uncatechized for Confirmation and Eucharist

12:00pm Lunch

1:00pm Concurrent
Sessions

(4) Academic Track: Msgr. Andrew
Wadsworth, The Rites of Christian Initiation and the Baptized but
Un-catechized
(5) Academic Track: Veronica
Arntz, “This is a Great Mystery”: Sacramental Families Formed by
Cosmic Liturgy
(6) Pastoral Track: Paolo Miguel
Cobangbang T.O.Carm., the Canonical Coronation of Marian Images as
a Liturgical Revival: a Philippine Perspective

2:30pm Concurrent
Sessions

(7) Academic Track: Sr. Moira
Debono, R.S.M. The Church Shares Your Joy: Amoris
Laetitia and the Order for Celebrating Matrimony
(8) Academic Track: Mike Nolan,
Re-interpreting the Poetry of Robert Southwell within the Context
of New Evangelization
(9) Academic Track: Alphonso Lopez
Pinto, Visions of Heaven on Earth: Mystagogy, the Santo, and
Modernity
(10) Pastoral Track: Fr. Daniel
Cardó, The Homily and the New Evangelization: Saint Augustine and
Some Lessons for Today’s Preaching

3:30pm Business Meeting

5:00pm Vespers

6:00pm Reception and
Banquet, after dinner talk by Sister Esther Mary Nickel, R.S.M. and the
screening of Prophet for our Times.

Saturday, October 1

8:00am Mass
(Extraordinary Form)

9:00am Breakfast with
Registration for the Spanish Track

9:30am Fr. Andrew Menke –
USCCB “Liturgical Projects Undertaken by the USCCB”

9:30am Spanish Session:
Fr. Daniel Cardó : Fuente y cima: La Liturgia y la Nueva Evangelización

11:00am Concurrent
Sessions and Spanish Session

(11) Spanish Track: Fr. Daniel
Cardó: Explorando los Misterios de la Misa
(12) Academic Track: Dom Benedict
Andersen O.S.B., The Role of Monasteries as Being (or Being
Potentially) Centres of Liturgical Apostolate in the Life of the
Local Diocesan Church
(13) Academic Track: Dino
Marcantonio, Symbolic Architectural Form
(14) Pastoral Track: Michael
Foley, Sanctifying the Bar: Liturgical Drinking and the New Evangelization

12:00pm Lunch

1:00pm Concurrent
Sessions and Spanish Session

(15) Spanish Track: Fr. Daniel
Cardó: La Homilía y la Nueva Evangelización
(16) Academic Track: Lisa Knutson,
Principle and Foundation of Beauty in the Missionary Liturgy: The
Jesuit Reductions as Model and Ignatian spirituality as Guide
(17) Academic Track: Steve Baker,
Between Luminous and Numinous: the Coincidence of Opposites and
Its Role in the Aesthetic Appreciation of Catholic Sacred
Architecture
(18) Pastoral Track: Fr. Jamie
Hottovy, Sacred Beauty: Evangelizing through the Images of Our
Faith

2:00pm Concurrent
Sessions and Spanish Session

(19) Academic Track: Richard
Nicholas, the Sacramental Ordo in Medieval Architecture as a Means
for Evangelization in the Twenty-First Century
(20) Academic Track: Richard
Bulzacchelli, There Are No Doors to Open if There Are No Walls:
Maintaining Sacramental Discipline as a Prerequisite for Preaching
the Gospel
(21) Pastoral Track: Fr. Nick
Schneider, In My Heart and on My Lips: Proclamation in the Mass as
a Model for Evangelization