Featuring:
Nationally-known liturgical composers:
Bob Hurd (composer of Pan de Vida & Ubi Caritas)
Marty Haugen (composer of Gather Us In & All Are Welcome)
And
Gregory Dale Schultz and the SCU Mission Church Choir
And
Barbara & Priscilla La Porte, mother and sister of Matt La Porte, who died at Virginia Tech on 4/16/07.
More about our guests:
Bob Hurd has served as a teacher, composer and liturgist in various pastoral and academic settings, including the Franciscan School of Theology, Berkeley, California, the Graduate Pastoral Ministries Program at Santa Clara University and St. Patrick Seminary, Menlo Park, California. His liturgical music is published by OCP and is featured in numerous hymnals in the United States, Canada, Great Britain and Australia. Bob's articles have appeared in Worship, Liturgy, Celebration, Liturgical Ministry and Today's Liturgy. He has been a contributor to two books: That They Might Have Life: Power, Empowerment and Leadership in the Church (Crossroads, 1991) and The New Dictionary of Catholic Spirituality (Michael Downey/Liturgical Press). He has a doctorate from De Paul University in Chicago.
Marty Haugen is a liturgical composer, workshop presenter, performing and recording artist & author from Eagan, Minnesota. He and his wife, Linda, have two adult children (Katrina & Matthew). Currently Marty serves as composer-in-residence at Mayflower United Church of Christ in Minneapolis and serves occasionally as adjunct instructor at United Theological Seminary in New Brighton, Minnesota.
For the past 25 years, Marty has presented hundreds of workshops and concerts across North and Central America, Europe, Asia and the Pacific Rim. He has over 30 recordings and more than 400 separate printed editions available through GIA Publications. A number of his published songs, including "Shepherd Me, O God," "Gather Us In" and "All Are Welcome" are well-known to many religious denominations. He has a number of published mass settings for Roman Catholic communities, including Mass of Creation
Barbara and Priscilla La Porte are the mother and sister of Matthew La Porte, who was one the 33 who died at Virginia Tech on 4/16/07. Barbara La Porte is someone who continues to not only live a life after the death of her awesome son but lives a life filled with hope and is willing to share that hope with others; hope that is rooted in her Catholic identity.
A Celebration of Ignatian Spirituality
Through its approachable texts and "singable" melodies and harmonies, the music of Bob and Marty help connect the Sacred to the ordinary and as St. Ignatius might add, it’s music that helps us find God in all things. As Ignatius encouraged finding a dependence on God in his first week of the Spiritual Exercises we encourage others to find a dependence on God by sharing their brokenness and grief. For it’s only in this space that we can see more clearly our mission to live a life for Christ. As in the Exercises' second week, we are called to use our imagination to place ourselves with Jesus and discover ourselves even more. This event will encourage people to use their imaginations to discover hope, that is, hope for something better. And at the core of this gathering the third and fourth weeks will unfold in front of us. We are called to live through the passion and death and then to a life of resurrection.
Why does anyone that is affected by death, choose to continue to live? Why do we still have faith? Why do we believe in something so good when it was something so bad that changed our lives? It’s a choice of life over death and a life where hope prevails through the power of resurrection. This will be prominent at our rally for hope, through our prayer, song and discussion.
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