The Liturgical Arts Adventure 2001

While the 2001 Liturgical Arts Adventure is now history, the conference schedule and workshop descriptions are posted here in the hope that you will look it over and let us know what you like most, least, and what you would want to have in the way of presentations at the NEXT Adventure, which we hope to have in 2003 or 2004. If you would indicate your interest in participating in or even possibly hosting the next Adventure it would help us set the date and schedule. Just drop a quick email to Sue Espinosa, the ML events coordinator.

  Adventure into the rich tradition of Christmastime. Experience the expectancy and power of longing. Recall sights, sounds and smells that stir cherished memories. Encounter the powerful imagery of sacred Scripture in new ways. Uncover hidden depths and forgotten foundations. Explore the mystery of incarnation and the manifestation of the divine within our midst. Express your unique gifts in liturgical celebration interacting with artists and artifacts, symbols and songs, dancers and diners, initiates and innovators. Remember that you are an artist, a ritualist, an explorer and a guide. Rejoice! Emmanuel is coming.

    During this hands-on adventure, you will create and celebrate an adapted Christmas midnight Mass, as well as participate in other liturgies from Advent to Epiphany.

• Come play and pray. Rediscover the passion, the vision and the challenge that first inspired you.
• Create liturgy in an environment that enhances and affirms your creativity.
• Take home practical ideas and memorable experiences.
• Enhance skills that are in demand 52 weeks a year.

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Who Should Come

This Liturgical Arts Adventure Workshop, sponsored by Ministry & Liturgy magazine, will inspire you, inform you and empower you to lead your parish into the future.

Space is limited. Enroll today. (Special discounts are available for parish teams of three or more.)

Quotes

I was immersed in the Paschal Mystery!

LAA was an exceptional experience of inclusiveness.

I entered a world of openness and freedom, of inclusiveness and caring for all that is. A breath of fresh air that maybe I’ll be able to bring to my parish community.

I liked the unexpected use of scripture – the twists and nuances – the looking at things in a different light.

The more open and intentional we can be to the use of all liturgical art, the greater participation we can expect and experience.
 

Reasons to attend the Liturgical Arts Adventure (written by participants in Minneapolis)

You will grow in your skill level and your spirituality – it is a BLEST time!

Be able to think out of  “the box”

You will expand your mind, your joy, your heart and your dream

I was called to create beauty in liturgy – come renew yourself and the church.

The adventure broke open for me the need for trust and cooperation in celebrating liturgy. You should come to expand your awareness of the power and necessity of all art forms in the liturgical life of your parish.

Open your mind and heart to the whole experience and rich possibilities of worship.

Look at the church, the liturgy, the community and yourself in a new and better way.

You will realize the greatness of the capacity of people united in prayer. Praise will never be the same again!

You will experience a way of working as an artist in the church that will set you free and open your heart, mind, voice and body to a new way of being Church.

You should come because you might share my enthusiasm and then we can work together to help our communities and our worship be more inclusive.

The whole Church is worth sharing this with -- deeper levels of Incarnation of God in our World.

Help your assembly soar so they can be people who work for justice, love tenderly and dance humbly with God.

You need to come because you are called by name as a child of God and this conference gives you the tools and the toolbox to respond to that call.

Come because you will laugh and learn to see God with open eyes.

Come, you will grow and stretch, laugh and share, and never be the same again.

Are you in a rut? Is your parish doing the same thing, year after year? Open your imagination and explore the possibilities within the context of the church documents.
 

More quotes...

“God does not need liturgy. People do, and people have only their own arts and styles of expression with which to celebrate.”
— Environment and Art in Catholic Worship, NCCB

 “In the liturgical springtime which most of the Churches are experiencing today, there is one question that young people, adults, educators, and even pastors cannot evade: Do our celebrations, lively though they may be, change the lives of Christians?”
— Jean Corbon, from The Wellspring of Worship

 “The present hungering for spirituality ... is the most obvious challenge to a church that proclaims itself committed to evangelism. For those of us who are liturgists, the challenge is to remember that we must be, first and foremost, ritualists and artists. Without an understanding of ritual and therefore symbol, and without the critical eye of an artist, our liturgies will never truly articulate either the community’s prayer nor the Divine response.”
— Kevin Yell, judge, ML “Bene” Awards, 1997

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