Graduate Courses

THEO 60414. Liturgical Year for the Pastoral Musician (LS) 2 Credits Donald LaSalle 8:10-10:30 MTWRF, July 7-July 18, 2008 This course is an overview of Sunday and the major seasons of the year for liturgical musicians. It considers key principles of the liturgical year and applies a basic historical and theological understanding of each season to liturgical planning and the selection and evaluation of liturgical music repertoire. Fr. Donald LaSalle, S.M.M. is vicar general of his religious order, the Montfort Missionaries, in Rome. Before taking this position, he was director of programs at Montfort House Retreat Center in Litchfield, Connecticut and Adjunct Professor of Liturgy at Immaculate Conception Seminary in Huntington, New York. He currently serves as the secretary of the North American Academy of Liturgy and is a member of the editorial board of Liturgical Ministries. Fr. LaSalle earned a doctorate in sacramental theology and liturgy from The Catholic University of America. In 1997, he successfully defended his dissertation, entitled Liturgical and Popular Lament: A Study of the Role of Lament in Liturgical and Popular Religious Practices of Good Friday in Northern Italy from the Twelfth to the Sixteenth Centuries

THEO 60413. The Theology of Liturgical Ministries (LS) 2 Credits Nathan Mitchell 8:15 - 10:30 MTWHF, July 7-July 18, 2008 This course seeks to acquaint students with the history and theology of liturgical ministries within the church, with special focus on ministries of music (cantor, psalmist, leader of song, pastoral musician). Particular attention will be paid to the emergence of lay ministries following the Second Vatican Council. Readings will include: Joseph Gelineau, Liturgical Assembly, Liturgical Song (Studies in Church Music and Liturgy; Portland: Oregon Catholic Press, 2002); Roles in the Liturgical Assembly, trans. Matthew J. O'Connell (Collegeville, MN: The Liturgical Press, 1981); Edward P. Hahnenberg, Ministry: A Relational Approach (New York: Crossroad, 2003). Mitchell's books include Cult and Controversy (Collegeville, MN: The Liturgical Press/A Pueblo Book, 1982); Eucharist as a Sacrament of Initiation (Chicago: Liturgy Training Publications, 1994); Liturgy and the Social Sciences (Collegeville, MN: The Liturgical Press, 1999); and Real Presence: The Work of Eucharist (new and expanded edition; Chicago: Liturgy Training Publications, 2001). His most recent book is Meeting Mystery ("Theology in Global Perspective Series"; Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2006). Since 1991, his column "The Amen Corner" has appeared in each issue of Worship magazine. In 1998, Mitchell was presented with the Berakah Award from the North American Academy of Litugy. In 1993, colleagues presented him with a Festschrift entitled Ars Liturgiae: Worship, Aesthetics, and Praxis: Essays in Honor of Nathan D. Mitchell, edited by Clare V. Johnson (Chicago: Liturgy Training Publications, 2003).