Evening Conferences

In addition to the theoretical foundations provided by its courses and the practical skills developed in its clinics, SummerSong also addresses the spiritual formation of pastoral musicians in a coordinated series of evening conferences. Father Nicholas Ayo, C.S.C. will offer six evenings of liturgically related themes for the spiritual edification of the SummerSong participants, as follows:

Conference One: Why does no one look forward to Trinity Sunday? How the "Trinity for us" may be more liturgically helpful than the "Trinity in itself."

Conference Two: The Lord's Prayer as the paradigm of all prayer. Let God be God; let human beings be human beings.

Conference Three: Morning Prayer-Why praise of God and conversion of life dovetail so very well.

Conference Four: Evening Prayer-Why thanksgiving to God and petitionary prayer dovetail so very well.

Conference Five: Can we pray always and sing always? How God knows the future.

Conference Six: The Re-enchantment of the cosmos-contemporary astronomical science and songs of the sun and moon, the stars and the heavens.

Nicholas Ayo is a priest in the Congregation of Holy Cross. He holds an S.T.L.
degree in theology from the Gregorian University in Rome (1960) and a Ph.D.
in liturature from Duke University (1966). After many years teaching literature
at the University of Portland in Oregon, Fr. Ayo became the Director of Novices
for the Congregation of Holy Cross in North America (1974-1980). He then
taught in the Great Books program at the University of Notre Dame from 1981
to 2004, when he retired to Professor Emeritus status. Among his books are
several published by Notre Dame Press: The Sermon-Conferences of St.
Thomas Aquinas (1988); The Creed As Symbol (1989); The Lord's Prayer (1992);
and The Hail Mary: A Verbal Icon (1994). The Sacred marriage: The Wisdom
of the Song of Songs appeared in November 1997 from Continuum Press.
Where Joy and Sorrow Meet, a book on the Stations of the Cross, was
published by Ave Maria Press in 1998. Signs of Grace: Meditations on the
Notre Dame Campus was published by Rowan and Littlefield in autumn, 2001
and Times of Grace: Spiritual Rhythms of the Year at the University of Notre
Dame was published by Rowan and Littlefield in 2004. Saint Nicholas in
America: Christmas Holy Day and Holiday was published by Corby Books in 2006.
Gloria Patri: The History and Theology of The Lesser Doxology was published by
the University of Notre Dame Press in 2007.

 

 

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