Slide show presentation from Philadelphia Association of Church Musicians Conference at Malvern Retreat House on February 26, 2017

1. FEBRUARY 26, 2017
MALVERN RETREAT HOUSE

2. SCHEDULE
2:00 - 2:15 PM Gather and Introductions
2:15 - 3:00 PM First Conference
3:00 - 3:30 PM Reflection , Reconciliation
3:30 – 4:15 PM Second Conference
4:15 - 5:00 PM Evening Prayer
5:00 PM Dinner and Socializing

3. GOALS
What has gone before us -> why is this important?
Paint the canvas of today.
Get “into the weeds” of your world.
Go home with an actionable item.

4. LITURGICAL MUSIC ….
… in the “spirit ofVatican II.”

5. CHURCH BEFORE
VATICAN II

6. CHURCH AFTER
VATICAN II

8. WHY IS THIS IMPORTANT ?

9. WHY ISTHIS IMPORTANT ?
Call to individual holiness
Outreach to the modern world
Renewal of liturgy
Recovery of Catholics (“allowed to”) read the Bible

10. “CATHOLIC” CULTURE
St. Monica
Catholic Culture
Philadelphia
Catholic Culture
“Main Line
Catholic Culture
“North American”
Catholic Culture
“Catholic” Cultures

11. “CATHOLIC” CULTURE
St. Monica Catholic Culture
Philadelphia Catholic Culture
“Main Line Catholic Culture
“North American” Catholic
Culture
Liturgy
Prayer
Pastoral Outreach
Theology

12. CHARISMS
AND
THRESHOLDS

13. CATHOLIC UNKNOWNS

14. COMMENTS …

15. GETTING INTO THE WEEDS

16. YOUR PARISH …
FROM A LITURGICAL PERSPECTIVE
Your
Parish
Opportunities
Weaknesses
Threats
YOUR
PARISH

17. TRANSITION

19. INTHIS CORNER …… !
“Liberals”
Yves Congar
Karl Rahner
Henri DiLubac
Edward Schillebeeckx
Joseph Ratzinger
Hans Kung
KarolWojtyła
“Conservatives”
 Alfredo Ottaviani (Head of Holy Office)
 Pericle Felici (Secretary of the Council)
 Marcel Lefebvre.

20. INTHIS CORNER …… !
“Conservatives ?”
 Henri DiLubac
 Joseph Ratzinger
 Hans urs von Balthesar
 Karol Wojtyła
 FatherYves Congar
“Liberals”
 Edward Schillebeeckx
 Hans Kung
 Karl Rahner

21. INTHIS CORNER …… !
Communion
 Can’t have an alternative, “2nd Magisterium”
 Not supporting reforms not called by
Vatican II (today’s “hot button” issues)
 The name -> purpose.
 Councils are rarely held.
 Church “in state of suspension”
 Everything up for grabs. “Theologians are
debating that.”
 Close the Council already!
 Keep the Council going
 Let’s change and update and reform
 “Living” Magisterium
Why is this
important today?

22. GOODNESS, TRUTH AND BEAUTY
DidThe Council Get ItWrong?

23. FROMTHE CATECHISM:
33 -The human person: with his openness to truth and
beauty, his sense of moral goodness, his freedom and
the voice of his conscience, with his longing for the
infinite and for happiness, man himself questions about
God's existence.

24. DIDVATICAN II
GET IT BACKWARDS?
 Truth
 Goodness
 “Here’s the truth.”
 Here’’ what you should believe.”
 Secularism
 Loss of objective truth
 Individuality
 “Well that’s your truth; it’s not my truth.”
 “What you’re doing is wrong!”
 No objective moral standards
 What’s “good/bad” for you might not be “good/bad” for me.

25. EFFECTIVE EVANGELIZATION
INTODAY’S CULTURE ?
Beauty
Truth
Goodness

26. JUST LOOK AT ..
Chartre Cathedral
Beethoven’s 9th
Sistine Chapel
Rory McElroy's golf swing
Mona Lisa
MotherTheresa’s sisters
Merton’s Seven Story Mountain
Alluring
Non-threatening
Winsome

27. BEAUTY
 Draws you in
 It works a mystical alchemy
 You want to be a part of this
 Beauty works in you – and
changes you from the inside
 Begin to experience the world
that made that possible
 Now you understand from the
inside, the truth of the thing

28. VON
BALTHESAR
The beautiful
Seizes you ..
Changes you ..
Then
Calls you
Sends you (Movie evangelism)

29. READINGTHE MOVE OF GOD
(7:00 MINUTES )
 “Some artists are more concerned about the quality of the art, than with
the move of God.”
 I can’t sing it, I can’t understand it, I can’t get on board with it.”
 “Whose the party for?You or them?
 Not: “What did the musicians enjoy.” Rather, “What best serves the
congregation?”

30. READINGTHE MOVE OF GOD
1. Why bother?
2. Are you even reading God’s move in your
congregation?
3. Who is at the table?Who else needs to be there?
4. Are you reading the impact correctly?
5. How do you measure a “Move of God?
6. What criteria is out there?
7. How often?
8. How will you know when “it is happening?”

31. FEBRUARY 26, 2017
MALVERN RETREAT HOUSE