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Convention Overview
Pre-convention Events
Institutes
Monday, July 23
Tuesday, July 24
Wednesday, July 25
Thursday, July 26
Friday, July 27
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Schedule

Friday, July 27
815 am Morning Prayer
9:30 Breakout F
Institutes
11:30 Plenum: Donnelly and Closing Event

 

 

Morning Prayer
8:15 am
"Dawn is bringing the light of day. With the light may there come to us the whole Son in the Father, and the whole Father in the Son." St. Ambrose


F
Breakout Sessions 9:30 - 10:45 am
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F-1 Lectionary Anthem Project, Year C, Part 2
Tim Dyksinski

A reading session with anthems for Lent, Triduum, and Easter that will serve and challenge your choirs!

DMMD

F-2 A Spiritual Spa: Change Management at the Parish Level
Kathy Felong

Renew yourself and your ministry through techniques that help you manage change better.

Music Directors
FELONG

F-3 Cultivating Song on Campus
Bryan Schamus

Come explore best practices for liturgy and music on campus. Learn and share what cultivates community among young adults. Build your music and prayer resources to support liturgy, retreats, service trips and your day to day activities with or as young adults. #NPM20s30s (tweeters, you know what to do!)

Campus Ministry
SCHAMUS

F-4 A Guide to the Revised Roman Missal
Paul Turner

Tip-toe through the Missal with an experienced guide.

Roman Missal
TURNER

F-5 Adults and Youth ARE the Church NOW
Rachelle Kramer

Take time to reflect on why this philosophy is so important in ministering with the younger members of the Church.

Adults Who Work with Youth
KRAMER

F-6 Chant 201
Anthony Ruff, OSB

Those with experience in chant have the opportunity to explore advanced issues.

Chant
RUFF

F-7 Conducting Essentials, Part 2
Axel Theimer

A continuation of E-07.

Beginning Choir Directors
THEIMER

F-8 Warm-Ups That Serve Your Choir
Paul French

Expand your warm-up repertoire with materials that can serve you well.

Choir Directors
FRENCH

F-9 Improvsation for the Liturgical Pianist and Keyboardist
Mark Hayes

Resources to put into your tool box to improvise at the piano during the Liturgy.

Pianists
HAYES

F-10 Touch That Knob With Care
Barney Walker

A survey of what a musician needs to know about church sound systems; how and why they work and how to troubleshoot problems like distortion, feedback and "dead" channels

Ensemble
WALKER

F-11 Literature for the Liturgical Year
Alan J. Hommerding

Build up the repertoire that will help you celebrate the Liturgy the whole year through.

Beginning Organist
HOMMERDING

F-12 Organ Literature Practice Techniques
Ann Labounsky

A survey of practice techniques for the principal schools and periods of organ literature.

Organists
LABOUNSKY

F-13 Composing For The Assembly
Barbara Bridge

Knowing your assembly and how to composer to empower their sung prayer.

Composers
BRIDGE

F-14 Giving Thanks at 15: Celebrating the Quincañera
Pedro Rubalcava

Grow to understand this important event in Hispanic/Latino culture and how to celebrate it well.

Spanish-English
RUBALCAVA

F-15 Sing to the Lord Continues to Guide us
Steven Janco

Everything you wanted to know about Sing to the Lord: Music in Divine Worship and more.

Music Directors
JANCO

F-16 Training Cantor Trainers
Mary Prete

Resources for the person who forms those who train the cantors in your pastoral setting.

Cantor
PRETE

F-17 Staff Dynamics
Steve Petrunak

Working together requires an understanding of people skills and how to be honest, direct, and faithful to what the Gospel asks for ministry.

Music Directors
PETRUNAK

F-18 What Is True Cultural Adaptation?
Matthew Rios, OSB

Begin to answer this important question with an experienced guide.

Clergy
RIOS

F-19 Handbell Repertoire for the Liturgy Can Develop Technique, Part 2
Jeffrey Honoré

A continuation of E-19.

Handbells
HONORE

F-20 Praying the Liturgical Year in Song
Mary Beth Kunde-Anderson

An overview of how music fits each season, with assembly and choral examples and a look at a variety of planning tools.
Liturgy: The Rites
KUNDE-ANDERSON


Institutes

9:30–10:45 am

Institutes conclude.

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Plenum and Closing Event

11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Disciples in the World: Embracing the Joys and Hopes

Dr. Doris Donnelly

"The joy and hope, the grief and anguish of the men and women of our time, especially of those who are poor or afflicted in any way, are the joys and hope, the grief and anguish of the followers of Christ as well." In what new ways are we being called to sing and live out this bold declaration from Vatican II's Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World Gaudium et spes? What does it mean to "go in peace, glorifying the Lord by your life"?

DONNELLY
DONNELLY


Convention Closing

We go forth rededicated to ministry, singing our faith that God is renewing the face of the earth and has caught us up in that great project.


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