Choral anthems and motets for Lent, Easter, and Ordinary Time, based on the readings for Year A of the Lectionary.

Two pastoral musicians offer resources to help you discern a career in pastoral music: resumés, curriculum vitae, employer/employee agreements, salary guidelines, and what to look for in a job description.

Music ministry is one way in which we seek to understand and pass on our faith. Explore its theology.

Explore how our texts, language, ritual, and music reveal the presence of God or inhibit God's presence.

Youth and adults alike, enjoy a wide variety of musical styles, from chant and polyphony to contemporary and Christian praise. So: "What styles shall we sing in worship, and, why?"

Tools to have at your fingertips in working with the small or rural choir.

Score preparation and choral arranging are important to your ministry as choir directors.

A session to help pianists discover techniques to play contemporary and jazz styles more authentically.

How to mix a variety of instruments into your ensemble without overpowering the singers or the assembly, while creating a sound that has both variety and beauty.

Practice techniques to ensure that your organ playing is a help rather than a hindrance to the worship of your people.

Creativity, practical tools, and practice can give you what you need to improve your improvisational style.

An opportunity for aspiring composers and ministers of sung prayer. Come explore and delve into the process and critical issues involved in the creative craft of harvesting musical settings of ritual texts for the community to sing and pray.

Spanish and bilingual resources for English speaking music directors and how to use them.

Repertoire in a new Vietnamese hymnal can inform you of the cultural feasts, devotions, spirituality, and family relationships within this prevalent but largely overlooked community. Your parish instrumentalist may discover pentatonic and folk-style melodies hidden in this resource, music for multicultural liturgies, and "world music" selections. Come and open your soul and ears to the spirituality and sonic landscape of the East.

Techniques that will help beginning cantors explore how their voice leads the assembly's prayer.

Cantors with advanced experience learn techniques to help them serve in better and better ways.

With a new translation on the horizon, praying these prayers central to our Eucharistic Liturgy (GIRM 30) and using the silences (GIRM 45) can be a great help for leading the assembly.

A session for those who plan prayer with members of religious communities and communities that include aging members, that can help our prayer reflect the needs of all as we age.

Music to help your parish bless time through the liturgy of the Church.

We become what we sing. Discover how the words we sing and the melodies to which they are wed transform us, our Church, and our world.

Come discover new settings for the parish choir in a variety of styles and voicings, led by Joel Raney, Jane Holstein and Hope Publishing Company

Practical advice and hands on instruction for organists who must fit in service playing, home practice, choir accompaniment, and special programs.

A continuation of B-01 and C-01.

Find out what invites and sustains youth into the music ministry we share.

The liturgy is a form of communal Lectio Divina. Discover how music serves a deeper entrance into the Word.

Sight singing for singers--a workshop for choir members or cantors wishing to gain or improve music reading skills or directors seeking to implement a program in their own parish.

A young pastoral musician invites youth to discover the gifts they bring to music ministry, now!

Challenging repertoire that will help the experienced choir serve the liturgy.

Solid warm-ups are essential for singers' voices and your choir's sound. They set the physical, mental, and spiritual stage for your rehearsal -- and for Mass!

Tools to help you play the keyboard with Hispanic styles and rhythms.

The ins and outs of copyrights will be covered so that you can do justice, love kindness, and work legally in your ministry.

Learning how to improvise can become part of your regular practice and service playing.

Practical tips for the experienced organist to conduct the choir effectively and play the organ at the same time.

Discover how music and liturgy can be so woven together that they become one reality. Practical examples and diverse repertoire will be shared.

Useful suggestions that will truly help you to celebrate the liturgy bilingually.

Suggestions for developing pastoral sensitivities toward Asian ministers, leaders, and worship communities.

It takes one's entire being to lead the assembly in song.

A continuation of D-16.

Sing to the Lord: Music in Divine Worship (2007) and the 2002 GIRM offer presiders important direction for their presidential style.

Whether you serve a religious community or a parish, the physical environment affects your planning and praying of liturgy.

Practical musical examples that will help you discover the power and potential of sacramental as well as non-sacramental celebrations of reconciliation to help your parish celebrate God's mercy.

A pastor and musician offers music directors an opportunity to reflect on their spiritual, musical, and ministerial formation.

Youth Gathering II
Where Do We Go From Here?
5:30 pm –6:30 pm
Rachelle Kramer

Come, re-connect with each other, share the best of the week so far, and find new energy to face what lies ahead as you return to parishes and schools. Come, celebrate new friends, insights, and commitment for the future. Come, sing and pray and begin to say good-bye.