Liturgy & Music Groups to Meet
Episcopal News Service. August 9, 1984 [84163]
WEST HARTFORD, Conn. (DPS, Aug. 9) -- Plans have been announced for the annual conference of the Association of Diocesan Liturgy and Music Commissions to be held Nov. 5-8 at the Holy Family Retreat Center in West Hartford, Conn. The conference is sponsored by the Connecticut Liturgical and Music Commissions as part of the celebration of the two hundredth year of the diocese.
The conference theme, "The Paschal Mystery, the Pastoral Offices, and Pastoral Ministry," will be introduced by keynote speaker the Rev. Dr. H. Boone Porter, editor of The Living Church; it will be further developed by the Rev. Dr. Marion Hatchett of St. Luke's School of Theology, who will discuss the liturgies of confirmation, commitment to Christian service, and marriage, and by the Rev. Dr. Daniel Stevick of the Episcopal Divinity School, who will interpret the rites of reconciliation of the penitent, ministry to the sick, and ministry at the time of death.
In addition, four sessions will be used to introduce the 1982 Hymnal. This part of the conference will be conducted by members of the Standing Commission on Church Music led by the new hymnal's general editor, Raymond Glover, along with James Litton, Marilyn Keisco, and David Hurd.
Worship at the conference will include daily celebrations of the Eucharist using some of the propers for various occasions -- Holy Cross, Incarnation, Holy Spirit, and for all baptized christians -- to accompany the general theme. Morning Prayer and one of the other offices will also be sung each day. The hymns and service music will all be taken from the 1982 Hymnal, usually using texts, tunes, or both which were not in the 1940 edition.