January 2004

Members will meet Saturday, January 3, 2004
during the pre-meeting sessions of the
North American Academy of Liturgy
at the Grand Hyatt in Manhattan NYC.

2004 CAL Meeting Agenda, New York City

• Members of the Catholic Academy of Liturgy are reminded that CAL members and visitors will convene on Saturday, January 3rd, from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

• Meeting at the Grand Hyatt in Manhattan, details on the  NAAL page.

The morning will be taken up with reports, Academy business and elections:

9:00   Gathering, Prayer

9:30 Coordinator's Report [Andrew Ciferni]

9:45 Election of new member to a 3 year term on the coordinating team to replace Ed Foley. Candidates are:

John Baldovin, S.J. has been Professor of Historical and Liturgical Theology at Weston Jesuit School of Theology since 1999. He taught previously at Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley (1984-1999) and Fordham University (1981-1984). John has also been visiting professor at the University of Notre Dame and St. John Vianney National Seminary, Pretoria, South Africa. His field of specialization is liturgical history. He has written The Urban Character of Christian Worship (1987), Liturgy in Ancient Jerusalem (1989), Worship: City, Church and Renewal (Pastoral Press, 1991), Bread of Life, Cup of Salvation: Understanding the Mass (2003). He has also edited Robert Hovda: The Amen Corner (1993) and (with Nathan Mitchell), Rule of Prayer, Rule of Faith: Essays in Honor of Aidan Kavanagh (2000). A member of NAAL since its founding, John served as President (1990-1991). A member of Societas Liturgica since 1981 he also served as its President (1999-2001). Since 1995 he has worked on a number of committees of ICEL and served as advisor to the USCC Bishops' Committee on Liturgy (1989-1992).

Mary Alice Piil, CSJ is best know to Academy members as past Secretary of NAAL. Since leaving that office, Mary Alice has also left her position of twenty year on the faculty of the Seminary of the Immaculate Conception in Huntington, New York. At present, she is Director of Formation of Deacons for the Diocese of Rockville Centre and continues to serve the Seminary in the role of adjunct Professor of Liturgy. Mary Alice brings to CAL's discussion not only her experience as Professor at the Seminary but also as a participant in the ICEL Sacramentary project where she served as a member of the Presentation of Texts  committee for ten years.

9:45 Financial report

10:00 update by Rev. Bruce Harbert, Executive Director of ICEL

10:30  Break

10:50 Questions, discussion with Fr. Harbert

11:15 update by Msgr. Anthony Sherman, Associate Director Bishops' Committee on the Liturgy

11:45 update on FDLC meeting, Joyce Ann Zimmerman

noon lunch

1:30 small group gatherings

1) working group on proposed commentary on the new GIRM [Ed Foley, coordinating]

 

2) working group on liturgy and culture [Roc O'Connor, coordinating]

 

3) any other groups that wish to convene please let Andrew Ciferni know.