Thirty-Ninth Annual
 Southwest Liturgical Conference Study Week

Liturgy: Celebrating God’s Action
We Live – We Move – We Have Our Being

We will break open the rituals of gesture, posture, and movement.  A team of presenters will explore how these movements of our body contain a richness of meaning.

January 17 – 20, 2001        Wednesday – Saturday
Hosted by the Roman Catholic Church of Victoria
at the Bauer Community Center, Port Lavaca, Texas,
home of birds, beaches, sails, and big fish tales!

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The Roman Catholic Church of Victoria invites all clergy and all others who minister in liturgy, catechesis, and evangelization to a Study Week with a different format than usual.  We will be studying the rituals of the liturgy, primarily of the Eucharist.  Our rituals will be explored through a mystagogical process focusing on bodily movement: procession/dance, posture, and gesture.  This process of breaking open the rites will be led by a Presenting Team that will include a visionary, Nathan Mitchell, answering the question “Why this ritual?, giving the history and future of it; a pastoral theologian, Don Neumann, answering “How do we do it?”; a pastoral musician, Sandra Derby, answering “How do we sing it?”; and an ecumenical theologian, Samuel Torvend, answering “Where and with whom do we do it?”  There will be specific times throughout each day for participants to process the information immediately, so as to be better prepared to utilize it in their ministry.  This process will be most beneficial to parish and/or diocesan teams that attend together.  There will be none of the usual breakout sessions/workshops, but there will be exhibitors as well as a Music Showcase on Thursday - Saturday afternoons.

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