“Missale Romanum” SCL Annual Conference Report 2009

“Missale Romanum” SCL Annual Conference Report 2009 Edward Schaefer Missale Romanum was the theme of the 12th annual conference and general meeting of the Society for Catholic Liturgy, which took place at St Cecelia Cathedral in Omaha, Nebraska, 29 January to 1 February 2009. This was the Society’s first conference to meet in late January and early February. Participants had the option of visiting Our Lady of Guadalupe Seminary in Denton, Nebraska, one of the two international seminaries for the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter. The seminary building and chapel were designed by architect Thomas Gordon Smith, who serves on the SCL’s board of directors. Presentations Monsignor Bruce Harbert, Executive Secretary of the International Commission on English in the Liturgy (ICEL), gave the Keynote Address , entitled, “Opening the Roman Missal.” The conference included 20 additional presentations divided into two tracks: Track I consisted of scholarly papers, while Track II sessions were more practically and pastorally oriented. The roster of speakers and topics follows (listed alphabetically by surname): • Rev. Thomas Buffer, “‘Salus’ in the Missale Romanum: What It Means and Why” • Rev. John Burns, O.Carm., “The Processions of the Ordo Missae: Liturgical Structure and Theological Meaning” • Colleen Carter, “The Offertory Motets of Palestrina in the Ordinary and Extraordinary Forms of the Roman Mass” • Conrad Donakowski, “‘Useless for Modern Man?’ Precedents and Problems Inherited from the Age of Democratic Revolution” Antiphon 13.1 (2009): 95-97 96 Antiphon 13.1 (2009) • Robert Fastiggi, “The Roman Missal and Papal Authority” • Rev. Cassian Folsom, O.S.B., “History of the Missale Romanum” • Rev. Gerald Dennis Gill, “The 2002 Institutio Generalis Missalis Romani: An Instance of the Hermeneutic of Continuity” • Rev. Gerald Dennis Gill and Sr. Marganne Drago, S.S.J., “A Theological and Liturgical Companion to Sing to the Lord: Music in Divine Worship” • Sr. Madeleine Grace, C.V .I., “Contribution of Ambrose of Milan (339-371) to the Development of the Roman Missal” • John Hammond, “The Hymn and the Roman Missal” • Rev. Robert Johansen, “The Dies Irae: An Exemplar of the Missale Romanum as a Source of Culture” • Rev. Robert Johansen, Panel Discussion: “Pastoral Issues in Implementing Authentic Liturgical Reform” • Rev. S. Joseph Lionel, “Liturgical Hermeneutics of Scripture in the Prefaces for Sundays of Lent in the Editio Typica Tertio of the Missale Romanum” • Rev. Msgr. Michael K. Magee, “The Continuing Importance of the Nova Vulgata Editio of the Bible for the Use of Sacred Scripture in the Mass of the Roman Rite” • Rev. Msgr. Richard Malone, “The History of the Lectionary” (delivered by Fr Robert Pesarchick) • Rev. Anthony McLaughlin, “Summorum Pontificum: Reconciling the Old and the New at the Parish Level” • Edward Schaefer, “The Ordinary and Extraordinary Forms of the Missale Romanum: Reconciliation or Revolution?” • Daniel G. Van Slyke, “Despicere mundum in terrena: ‘Despising’ the World as a Motif in the Missale Romanum Past and Present” • Rev. Timothy Vaverek, “Orientation for the Celebration of the Liturgy” 97 scl annual Conference report 2009 • Rev. Morgan White, “The Principle of Progressive Solemnity and the Roman Missal” The concluding Plenary Address was given by Michael P. Foley of Baylor University and was entitled, “The Mystic Meaning of the Missale Romanum.” This address and other 2009 conference presentations will appear in future issues of Antiphon. Liturgical Celebrations The conference included a Solemn High Mass in the extraordinary form at Immaculate Conception Church in Omaha on Friday, 30 January (St Martina); a sung Latin Mass in the ordinary form, celebrated ad orientem, at St Cecelia Cathedral on Saturday, 31 January (St John Bosco); and a predominantly English-language Mass, also at the cathedral , on Sunday, 1 February (Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time). Society Business A business meeting for full members of the Society was held on Saturday , 31 January. Dr Carmina Chapp, President, reported on the state of the Society. The SCL currently has 230 members; its finances are solvent but tight. As approved by the membership in 2007, the 2010 general conference will be held 28-31 January, its theme being Liturgical Munera (Roles). Greenville, South Carolina, was approved as the conference site at this, the 2009 business meeting. Fr Jay Scott Newman, pastor of St Mary Church in Greenville, will serve as...