Sacred Liturgy Conference

This weekend, me and a couple of guys are taking a road trip and heading over to Mount Angel Abbey for the 2016 Sacred Liturgy Conference. I realize that this is not what most folks do on their Labor Day Weekend, but I’m pretty comfortable in my eccentricities.

Here’s the intro from the press release:

The Oregon Sacred Liturgy Conference is set for Mount Angel Abbey Sept. 2-4. Theme is “Mystical Body-Mystical Voice in the Liturgy.” The three days of prayer, study and celebration will focus on what the fathers of the Second Vatican Council called “the source and summit” of faith — the liturgy.

The conference will cover church history, dogma and theology.

Three days of liturgies and lectures, while praying with the monks seems like a good thing right now! Work has been ridiculously stressful the past weeks as we came crashing into the deadline for finishing the main section of a two-year project.

This, though, is the part I’m most looking forward to:

The keynote address will be given Saturday afternoon by Archbishop Alexander Sample. He will focus on the bishop’s role in sanctifying the people through the liturgy. …

On Saturday evening, Archbishop Sample will celebrate the extraordinary form Pontifical High Mass at St Mary Church in Mount Angel.

I may try to blog from the conference, we shall see.