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Building A Quality Music Program Through Servant Leadership & Community
How do you get people to approach music ministry with the right attitude? For that matter, in a world where we’re short on both time and people in the pews, how do you get people to step up at all? Let’s talk about building a culture of service, not ego, within our music ministries. We’ll explore how combining formation and community encourages people to invest in the program at large. We’ll have small group discussions, so bring your challenges and your big dreams!
II.
Celebrating Advent and Lent in the domestic church
At baptism, parents are reminded that they are the “first teachers of their child in the ways of faith.” Advent and Lent, as seasons of reflection, offer an opportunity to place faith at the center of family life for a few short weeks. Learn how to use the Advent calendar, Jesse tree, and weekly themes to bring the penitential seasons into focus and help families make the faith concrete.
III.
Keeping the worship in music ministry when you’re on the job
Liturgical ministries—and music ministry in particular—can require so much of our focus that it’s easy to leave church after four or five Masses and feel like we haven’t participated in worship at all. This session is a time to pause, reflect, and reconnect with the heart of our vocation as music minister and make a plan for how to keep our minds and hearts focused on God, rather than logistics. We’ll reflect on what brought us to this work and the fruits we have witnessed in our lives and in the lives of those around us, and discuss ways to stay “in the moment” at Mass.
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Full, Conscious, Active, GO!: Readying the Young Church for Mission
(co-presented with Orin Johnson and Shannon Cerneka)
School Masses can prepare the next generation of pastoral musicians to keep the Church singing forever. How do we achieve this? By placing Eucharistic celebrations at the center of Catholic school life and involving students in every step of planning and carrying out the liturgy. We’ll talk seasons, Ordo, repertoire, psalmists, and collaborating with school personnel, as well as methods for implementing ritual ideas and living the liturgy outside of the rites themselves.