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Fota XI Liturgy Conference

Fr. David Friel · May 13, 2018

UMMER 2018 is shaping up to be another off-season filled with numerous opportunities to learn more about the liturgy and sacred music. Last week, we highlighted the third annual chant workshop being hosted by the Wethersfield Institute in New York State. Registration continues, meanwhile, for the Sacred Music Symposium in Los Angeles. Yet another opportunity will be on offer in southern Ireland.

It was announced late last month that the annual Fota Liturgy Conference will be held July 7–9, 2018. This conference will again be hosted by the St. Colman’s Society for Catholic Liturgy at the Clarion Hotel in downtown Cork.

The theme for Fota XI is Psallite Sapienter: The Liturgy of the Hours. Speakers will include:

Dom Benedict Andersen, OSB (Silverstream Priory, Ireland)

Fr. Joseph Briody (Boston, MA)

Fr. Sven Conrad, FSSP (Germany)

Mr. Gregory DiPippo (NLM)

Mr. Matthew Hazell (Sheffield, UK)

Sr. Maria Kiely, OSB (Washington, DC)

Dr. Peter Kwasniewski (Lander, WY)

Fr. Dennis McManus (Boston, MA)

Dr. William Mahrt (Stanford, CA)

Further details and registration form are available here.

In the summer of 2016, I was fortunate to attend the Fota IX Liturgy Conference. My recap of that year’s conference surveys some of the fascinating discussions this event promotes.

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Fr. David Friel

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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Here’s an audio excerpt (33 seconds) of a setting for Kyrie VIII which was recorded live last Sunday at our parish in Los Angeles. The setting (“Missa de Angelis”) is by composer Richard Rice, and you can download the free PDF if you click here and scroll to the bottom. I think Richard’s composition is marvelous. I missed a few notes on the organ, but I’ll get them right next time.

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Covid restrictions here in California are still extremely severe—switching “two weeks to flatten the curve” into “two years to flatten the curve.” Since 2020, we’ve had police breaking into our church to check if everyone is wearing a mask…even when only 5-6 people are present! But we were allowed to have a small percentage of our singers back on Easter Sunday, and here is their live recording of the ancient Catholic hymn for Eastertide: Ad Cenam Agni Providi. The girls were so very excited to sing again—you can hear it in their voices!

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“E.S.” in North Dakota writes: “I just wanted to take a moment to say THANK YOU for all the hard work you have put—and continue to put—into your wonderful website. In the past two years, my parish has moved from a little house basement into a brand new church and gone from a few families receiving Low Masses twice a month to several families (and many individuals) receiving Mass every Sunday, two Saturdays a month, and every Holy Day. Our priest has been incorporating more and more High Masses and various ceremonies into our lives, which has made my job as a huge newbie choir master very trying and complicated. CCWatershed has been an invaluable resource in helping me get on my feet and know what to do!!! Thank you more than I can express! May God bless you abundantly and assist you in your work and daily lives!”

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When Christ gave the bread, he did not say, “This is the symbol of my body,” but, “This is my body.” In the same way, when he gave the cup of his blood he did not say, “This is the symbol of my blood,” but, “This is my blood.”

— Theodore, Bishop of Mopsuestia, writing in the 5th Century

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