July 14-16, Latin Liturgy Association Convention

A Convention Registration Form can be obtained here. [Please note that the April 15th deadline has been waived, although it does not say that on the registration form.]

Call Chapter president Regina Morris at 314-647-0475 for more information.

The agenda is below:

FRIDAY, 14 July 2006

9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. Registration open at courtesy room in hotel

Pre-convention Historic Church Tour (Separate registration required):
Bus depart Drury Inn-Union Station 9:00 a.m.
Basilica of St. Louis, King of France (Old Cathedral) 9:15 a.m.—9:45 a.m.
Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis (New Cathedral) 10:00 a.m. —11:15 a.m.
St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church: 11:30 a.m.—12:00 noon
Holy Family (Log) Church [includes lunch] 12:30 p.m.—1:30 p.m.
Our Lady of the Holy Cross Church 2:00 p.m.—2:30 p.m.
St. Joseph Shrine 3:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Return to Drury Inn-Union Station 4:00 p.m.

4:30 -7:00 p.m. National Council Meeting (at hotel, in courtesy room)

7:00 – 8:00 p.m. Supper Break

8:00 p.m. Social Hour (ALL WELCOME…at hotel, in courtesy room)

9:00 p.m. Group recitation of the Rosary in Latin (in courtesy room)

SATURDAY, 15 July 2006

7:00 -9:30 a.m. Registration (Courtesy room at hotel)

Vendor room (at St. Francis de Sales gym) opens for set-up

8:00 9:30 a.m. Mass in Latin (1970 Missal) at St. John the Evangelist Church
Celebrant: Father Edward Richard, M. S., Kenrick-Glennon Seminary
Choir: Seminary Choir, Kenrick-Glennon Seminary

9:30-9:45 a.m. Shuttle buses to St. Francis de Sales Oratory from hotel

Registration Desk moves to St. Francis de Sales Oratory basement hall

Vendor room is open to conventioneers until 5:00 p.m.

9:45-10:00 a.m. Welcome by President Jim Pauer; Local Chairman Regina Morris
Welcome by Father Karl Lenhardt, I.C.R., Rector, St. Francis de Sales Oratory
Memorial to Robert Edgeworth (Scott Calta)

10:00-11:00 a.m. “Monsignor Martin B. Hellriegel—Historical Example of Appropriate Liturgical Renewal”

Father C. Frank Phillips, C. R., Pastor of St. John Cantius Church, Chicago, IL

11:00-12:00 noon “The Place of Latin in the Current Liturgical Renewal”
Dr. James Hitchcock, Founding Chairman of Latin Liturgy Association

12:00-1:00 p.m. Buffet lunch

1:00-2:00 p.m. “Educating Children and the Faithful in Gregorian Chant: A Method from the Past, and a Plan for the Future”
Father Samuel Weber, O.S.B., Wake Forest University

2:00-2:10 p.m. Break

2:10-3:10 p.m. “The Institute of Christ the King, Sovereign Priest—Harmony of Liturgy and Life in the Modern World”
Msgr. Michael Schmitz, I.C.R. Provincial Superior (United States)

3:10-3:20 p.m. Break

3:20-4:20 p.m. “Adoremus and Liturgical Reform”
Helen Hull Hitchcock, Co-founder of the Adoremus Society

4:20-4:45 p.m. Buses to St. Mary of Victories Church

4:45-5:15 p.m. Vespers at St. Mary of Victories Church

5:00 p.m. Vendor Room closes

5:15 p.m. Buses from St. Mary of Victories to hotel

Supper on your own

7:30-9:00 p.m. Workshop on Gregorian Chant (especially Compline)(in hotel courtesy room)
Dr. Richard Haefer, Arizona State University

9:00-9:30 p.m. Compline (in hotel courtesy room)

SUNDAY, 16 JULY 2006

8:00 a.m. Optional Low Mass at St. Francis de Sales Oratory
Bus to St. Francis de Sales Oratory
Vendor room open for set-up

8:45-9:30 a.m. “Plus ça change”
Mike Withers, Representative, Association of Latin Liturgy, United Kingdom

Vendor room open (closed during 10:00 a.m. Mass)

10:00 a.m. Pontifical High Mass (1962 Missal) at St. Francis de Sales Oratory
Celebrant: Most Reverend Raymond L. Burke, Archbishop of St. Louis
Choirs: St. Gregory and St. Fidelis Choirs, St. Francis de Sales Oratory

12:30 p.m. Closing Banquet – in basement of St. Francis de Sales Oratory
Speaker: Father William Barnaby Faherty, S.J. on
“Father Pierre-Jean De Smet—Blackrobe to the Native Americans”

Vendor room open until 2:30 p.m.

2:30 p.m. Convention adjourns. Vendor room closes. Bus to hotel
Optional trips recommended (maps and driving instructions available):

[“Old St. Ferdinand Shrine” in Florissant or “Collection of the Western Jesuit Missions” at the St. Louis University Art Museum or “Black Madonna Shrine” in Eureka, MO]