Waiting in Joyful Hope
31 August 2009
A record number of people attended a music and liturgy summer school in Norfolk. One hundred and eight participants, including people from the Clifton Diocese, joined clergy, religious and laity from all over the country and as far away as Denmark. They converged on St Gabriel’s Conference Centre in Ditchingham for the five-day course organised by the Society of Saint Gregory.
The theme for the week was “As we wait in joyful hope” and keynote addresses on the theme of Christian hope were given by the Bishop of East Anglia, Right Reverend Michael Evans, by his Vicar General, Monsignor Tony Rogers, and by Ann Blackett, from the Diocese of Nottingham Liturgy Commission.
Workshops looked at various aspects of church music and liturgy, including sessions on composition led by internationally renowned composer and former Director of Music at Clifton Cathedral Christopher Walker. Other workshops included planning liturgies, proclaiming the Word, and sight reading music. There were also seminars on liturgy and devotion, diversity of liturgical practice and musical repertoire.
The week was coordinated by Father Timothy Menezes, lecturer in liturgy at Oscott College and parish priest in Coventry; the musical director was Paul Wellicome, editor, composer and parish musician at Our Lady's Parish, Lillington, Warwickshire. The undoubted highpoint of the week was the celebration of Mass for the Feast of the Transfiguration.
This year’s summer school was particularly special for the Society of Saint Gregory as during the course of the week it celebrated its 80th anniversary, the first ever general meeting taking place in Oxford in 1929.
A record number of people attended a music and liturgy summer school in Norfolk. One hundred and eight participants, including people from the Clifton Diocese, joined clergy, religious and laity from all over the country and as far away as Denmark. They converged on St Gabriel’s Conference Centre in Ditchingham for the five-day course organised by the Society of Saint Gregory.
The theme for the week was “As we wait in joyful hope” and keynote addresses on the theme of Christian hope were given by the Bishop of East Anglia, Right Reverend Michael Evans, by his Vicar General, Monsignor Tony Rogers, and by Ann Blackett, from the Diocese of Nottingham Liturgy Commission.
Workshops looked at various aspects of church music and liturgy, including sessions on composition led by internationally renowned composer and former Director of Music at Clifton Cathedral Christopher Walker. Other workshops included planning liturgies, proclaiming the Word, and sight reading music. There were also seminars on liturgy and devotion, diversity of liturgical practice and musical repertoire.
The week was coordinated by Father Timothy Menezes, lecturer in liturgy at Oscott College and parish priest in Coventry; the musical director was Paul Wellicome, editor, composer and parish musician at Our Lady's Parish, Lillington, Warwickshire. The undoubted highpoint of the week was the celebration of Mass for the Feast of the Transfiguration.
This year’s summer school was particularly special for the Society of Saint Gregory as during the course of the week it celebrated its 80th anniversary, the first ever general meeting taking place in Oxford in 1929.
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