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Sacra Liturgia 2019 in Toronto

Fr. David Friel · January 31, 2018

VER THE last five years, the Sacra Liturgia organization has hosted a series of four very successful academic conferences on the sacred liturgy:

Rome (2013)
New York City (2015)
London (2016)
Milan (2017)

The series will return to North America, it has just been announced, with a 2019 conference in Toronto, Canada. Dates for the upcoming Sacra Liturgia will be June 17-20, 2019. This event is being hosted with the generous approval of the Archbishop of Toronto, Thomas Cardinal Collins. Information concerning the specific locations for the conferences and liturgies has not yet been released.

Speakers at the 2019 conference will include Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith, Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke, and Bishop Peter Elliott, among others.

Sacra Liturgia has also just announced the details of their Fifth International Summer School, to be held at the Monastère Saint-Benoît, in La Garde-Freinet, Provence, France.

The dates for this summer program will be July 27 – August 8, 2018.

Click here for CCW coverage of the past Sacra Liturgia proceedings. Stay in touch with Sacra Liturgia via their website and Facebook page.

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About Fr. David Friel

Ordained in 2011, Father Friel served as Parochial Vicar at St. Anselm Parish in Northeast Philly. He is currently a doctoral candidate in liturgical theology at The Catholic University of America.—(Read full biography).

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—Jeff Ostrowski

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—Jeff Ostrowski

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— ‘Dr. Robert Stevenson, 1961 (mod.)’