Chant Explored at Ave Maria Conference
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Published on Monday, 18 February 2013 18:55
Gregorian chant is most often associated with traditional Catholic Masses in Latin, but a growing number of people are working to incorporate the ancient musical form into 21st century liturgies.
That was a major theme of the fifth annual Musica Sacra Florida Gregorian Chant conference held at Ave Maria University Friday and Saturday.
A Mass on the evening of the opening day was chanted in the Extraordinary Form -- the traditional Latin Mass. But at the conference closing Mass on Saturday, after instruction and workshops that included topics such as "Incorporating Gregorian Chant into Parish Life" and "Instruction for Priests & Deacons in Chanting the Mass in the New English Translation," the English language Novus Ordo Mass featured chant by both men's and women's scholae. Pictured, Edward Schaefer directing a men's schola at an ordinary form Mass Saturday evening.
The conference drew about 60 people from across Florida as well as from seven other states.
