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NPM and the Economy
Many (if not most) not-for-profit organizations have seen a significant reduction in their financial resources during these difficult economic times. NPM has not been immune to the economic forces affecting so many people and organizations. From the President The Board is aware that many of our members are experiencing difficulties. A number of musicians have written to us about losing their jobs, having their Dear Members, positions cut back, or experiencing budget reductions in their parishes. When we pray together at our staff We are making changes at the NPM office. At the meetings, we remember these members and their beginning of a new year I would like to devote this communities in our prayer. space to sharing with you the plans that your Board After two successive years of deficit budgets, has been working on. the NPM Board of Directors decided that decisive action was needed to reduce our expenses and, if possible, to generate some additional revenue. Board Publications and Communications members were faced with some very difficult choices. In approaching their decisions, however, the Board When the National Association of Pastoral affirmed that the mission of the association and service Musicians was founded in 1976, communication with to its members must be the top priority. The association members took place almost exclusively through the will continue to sponsor events and publications mail. All members received twelve publications each that foster the art of musical liturgy and that provide year—six issues of the journal Pastoral Music and musicians, clergy, and other leaders with the resources six issues of the members’ newsletterPastoral Music they need. Notebook. Today, however, because of revolutionary Some of the cuts that the Board has approved will changes in communications—and especially the be painful, especially for the NPM staff. Several staff internet—we have found new and more immediate positions have been eliminated, and the remaining staff ways of keeping in touch. Now our members receive will see their salaries frozen for a second successive news and resources by e-mail and through our website year and a reduction in their benefits. I can honestly on a regular basis, including the weekly reflections in say that these men and women are devoted to the Sunday Word for Pastoral Musicians. association and its mission, and they have signaled We have gradually been moving away from printed their willingness to ride out this economic situation and and mailed information toward more frequent use of to do their very best to serve you. electronic media. Beginning this year we are making Thank you for your amazing support of NPM and a more deliberate move that reflects the existing its mission. In the center of this issue you will find the communications landscape. Pastoral Music magazine brochure for this summer’s NPM National Convention will remain our flagship publication and the official in Detroit, July 12–16. I hope to see you there! journal of NPM. It will now appear five times each year with issues in January, March, May, September, and November. We will also continue to print four issues each year of the very popular newsletter The Liturgical Singer, which is intended not only for directors but also for distribution to cantors, psalmists, and choir members. We are moving all of our other periodical J. Michael McMahon publications to an electronic format. Beginning in President
2 January 2010 • Pastoral Music NATIONAL ASSOCIATION of PASTORAL PASTORAL MUSICIANS
January 2010 Volume 34:2 Music
Pastoral Music (ISSN 0363- 6569) is published five times Contents per year by the National Association of Pastoral Readers’ Response 5 Association News 7 About the Photos 19 Musicians (NPM), 962 Wayne Avenue, Suite 210, Silver Spring, MD 20910. The Rensselaer Spirit: Still Strong at Fifty 15 NPM is an organization of musicians and By Steven R. Janco clergy dedicated to fostering the art of musical liturgy. Member services include the quarterly newsletter Pastoral Music Notebook, Musicians Serving Military Communities discounts on NPM conventions and insti- tutes, and other benefits. “Special Challenges” in Military Communities: 21 Editorial, Executive, and Advertising Offices: 962 Wayne Avenue, Suite 210, Silver Spring, Pretty Common, Really MD 20910-4461. Phone: (240) 247-3000. Fax: By Col. Tom Luna, USAF (240) 247-3001. E-mail: [email protected]. Advertising: Phone: (503) 289-3615. E-mail: Music under Fire: Worship in War Zones 24 [email protected]. By Lt. Col. Timothy A. Butler, USAF Publisher: Dr. J. Michael McMahon; Editor: Dr. Gordon E. Truitt; Our Ecumenical Ministry 26 Assistant Editors: Ms. Andrea Schellman, By J. C. Cantrell Sr. Linda Marie Sariego, osf; Advertising Director: Ms. Karen Heinsch; Music Review Editor: Dr. Marie Kremer; Music and Musicians Can Never Be Separated 28 Book Review Editor: Rev. James Challancin; from the Liturgy Printing: Mercury By Maj. Edward Kelley Membership Information: Regular Parish Member- ship in NPM (clergy and musician, both included The Movable Feast: Life as a Director 34 as members): $113 per year. $60 of this amount is for subscriptions to Pastoral Music for one year. of Music Ministries Serving Military Parishes Single Parish Membership (one member): $81 per By Kathleen O’Brien year. $30 of this amount is for a subscription to Pas- toral Music. Individual Membership (one member, no parish benefits): $67. $30 of this amount is for Commentary a subscription to Pastoral Music. Youth Member- “We Are Catholics, and We Are Americans” 38 ship: $34. Retired/Senior Membership: $34. Benefits By Gordon E. Truitt equivalent to individual membership. Group membership rates are available. Membership rates in effect as of January 1, 2010. Professional Concerns 41 Reviews 43 Subscription Information: One-year subscription, five Chapter News 53 Calendar 58 issues a year, $46. Library rate: $46. Single copy: $7. Inserto para el boletín 59 Bulletin Insert 60 For second class postage to Canada, add $11 per year for each membership. For postage to all other countries, add $15 per year for each membership. Copyright © 2009 by the National Associa- tion of Pastoral Musicians. Periodicals postage paid at Silver Spring, Maryland, and additional mailing offices. Postmaster: Send address change to Pastoral Cover: Singing hymns at a Christmas Service in Iraq. DVIDS/Spc. Jodi Krause. See page nineteen Music, 962 Wayne Avenue, Suite 210, Silver for an explanation of several of the photo sources for this issue and for detailed captions. Ad- Spring, MD 20910-4461. ditional photos courtesy of the Rensselaer Program of Church Music and Liturgy, St. Joseph’s College, Rensselaer, Indiana; the United States Department of Defense; and the Archdiocese of Baltimore, Maryland.
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NPM Board of Directors NPM National Office 962 Wayne Avenue, Suite 210 Dr. Michael Connolly (2009) Silver Spring, Maryland 20910-4461 Rev. Ricky Manalo, csp (2011) Phone: (240) 247-3000 • Fax: (240) 247-3001 Dr. Jennifer Pascual (2011) General e-mail: [email protected] Mr. Stephen Petrunak, Vice Chair (2009) Web: www.npm.org Ms. Joanne Werner, Chair (2011) Dr. J. Michael McMahon, NPM President Dr. J. Michael McMahon, President Ext. 12 E-mail: [email protected] NPM Council Rev. Virgil C. Funk, President Emeritus At-Large Representatives Membership Mr. Brian Bisig (2010) Ms. Kathleen Haley, Director of Membership Services Mr. Tim Dyksinski (2010) Ext. 19 E-mail: [email protected] Ms. Jacqueline Schnittgrund (2010) Ms. Janet Ferst, Membership Assistant Dr. Dolly Sokol (2010) Ext. 15 E-mail: [email protected] Ms. Mary Beaudoin (2012) Rev. Stephen Bird (2012) Education Ms. Anne Ketzer (2012) Rev. Dr. Paul H. Colloton, op, Director of Continuing Education Mr. Steven Warner (2012) Ext. 11 E-mail: [email protected] National Committees Mr. Peter Maher, Program Coordinator Rev. Michael Driscoll, Education (2010) Ext. 22 E-mail: [email protected] Sr. Claudette Schiratti, rsm, Certification (2010) Mr. Pedro Rubalcava, Music Industry (2010) Publications Rev. James Wm. Bessert, Publications (2012) Dr. Gordon E. Truitt, Senior Editor Mr. Tom Nichols, Finance (2012) Ext. 21 E-mail: [email protected]
Interest Sections Exhibits and Advertising Ms. Gael Berberick, Ensemble Musicians Ms. Karen Heinsch, Advertising Manager Mr. Meyer Chambers, African American Musicians Phone: (503) 289-3615 Mr. Bruce Croteau, Pastoral Liturgy E-mail: [email protected] Ms. Nancy Deacon, Pianists Dr. Richard P. Gibala, Diocesan Directors of Music Administration Ms. Rachelle Kramer, Youth Mr. Lowell Hickman, Office Manager and Executive Assistant Ms. Tracy Lake, Music Education Ext. 25 E-mail: [email protected] Col. Tom Luna, Musicians in the Military Mr. Paul Lagoy, Secretary and Mail Clerk Rev. Ricky Manalo, csp, Asian and Pacific Rim Musicians Ext. 26 E-mail: [email protected] Dr. Dolores Martinez, Hispanic Musicians Mr. Anthony Worch, Finances Sr. Nylas Moser, asc, Musicians Serving Religious Communities Ext. 15 Mr. Nicholas Palmer, Composers Ms. Mary Lynn Pleczkowski, Cantors Rev. Anthony Ruff, osb, Chant Mr. Stephen Steinbeiser, Campus Ministers Dr. Lynn Trapp, Organists Rev. Robert Webster, Clergy Mr. Michael Wustrow, Choir Directors
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January 2010 • Pastoral Music Readers’ Response
Re: “So You Think You Can’t Dance?”
I want to thank Father Bob VerEecke (see Readers’ Response, October 2009 Pas- toral Music, page six) for the many years he has been pioneering ritual movement and dance in the Catholic Church. He has been an inspiration to all who have come to love to worship God through danced prayers. I also want to thank NPM for allowing him to continue presenting liturgical dance workshops at the annual conventions. I, too, have been a dance minister for the Lord for more than thirty years in the Catholic Church. Here in the Midwest, at Sts. Peter and Paul Parish, St. Louis, we also have the tradition of using ritual dance prayers during holy days, feasts, and festivals of the Church. During the Easter Vigil, there is a responsorial song in which the whole congregation can participate in dance. The assembly also knows movement prayers to the Led by the parish dance ministry, one of whom is in a wheelchair, the parishioners at Sts. Gloria and participates when the dance Peter and Paul Parish, St. Louis, Missouri, join in celebrating the parish’s 160th anniversary in ministry leads them in this prayer. September 2009. I want to encourage all who want to praise God through danced prayers to persevere and know that there is hope yet for acceptance in our Church. Suzanne Tushar O’Fallon, Missouri
Suzanne Tushar is the director of the Sts. Peter and Paul Dance Ministry, St. Louis, and SonDanceMinistry.com.
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Naming the Christian vocation in the world, the Council said: “The joys and the hopes, the griefs and the anxieties of the people of this age, especially those who are poor or in any way afflicted, these are the joys and hopes, the griefs and anxieties of the followers of Christ. Indeed, nothing genuinely human fails to raise an echo in their hearts.” The Council intended, in this document, to give as much weight to Christian involvement in the world—especially in the field of social justice—as other “constitutions”—such as the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium—gave to doctrinal is- sues. rscj, sounds the keynote on Monday and a consumerism and commercialism In the forty-five years since Gaudium afternoon by naming our stance in a at odds with a spirit of poverty. et Spes was issued, the social involve- world that seems to be splintering into Wednesday’s plenum session will ment of individual Christians and of the ever-smaller and more hostile groups. explore the invitation issued by the whole Church has changed dramatically As the Preface to Eucharistic Prayer II for “Common Ground Initiative,” begun by as we have dealt with issues such as the Masses of Reconciliation names that God- Cardinal Joseph Bernardin, to a change economy, the valuing of life and death, the conscious stance: “In the midst of conflict in perspective that can offer us the hope cultural make-up of our assemblies, cities, and division, we know it is you who turn we need to find harmony in the Church, nation, and world, and in the very liturgy our minds to thoughts of peace.” Sister in our diocese, and in our parish for the that we celebrate. While our involvement Kathleen, recipient of the 2004 Frederick sake of the world. Dr. Steven Janco will in such issues sometimes threatens to R. McManus Award, is the provincial of be the presenter. A composer and pastoral pull us apart, our call is to an ever-deeper the Society of the Sacred Heart. She has musician, Steve is currently the director of unity in the face of division and hope in served as a professor of liturgy at the the Rensselaer Program of Church Music the face of fear. Catholic Theological Union in Chicago and Liturgy at Saint Joseph’s College in So we gather in Detroit, seeking to and on advisory committees for the Bish- Rensselaer, Indiana. deepen our Catholic identity, to heal the ops’ Committee on the Liturgy (now the On Thursday Dr. John Witvliet will hurts that haunt us, to create harmony Committee on Divine Worship) and the invite us to live a passion-driven life, one in our discord, and to go forth from our International Commission on English in that will lead to a passion-filled ministry. gathering in the Motor City as we go the Liturgy. In a time when so many people in pastoral forth from every liturgical celebration: On Tuesday, Dennis Archer will bring ministries experience burnout or disap- preaching by our presence in the world a practiced social activist’s eye to an ex- pointment, Dr. Witvliet will call us to live the Gospel message of hope. ploration of the fears that we must face as a spirituality that reflects our oneness with Gospel people whose song is “Alleluia!” the Creator, filled with music that touches Plenums With a background that includes serv- our hearts and deepens our passion for ing as a justice of the Michigan Supreme life, with a willingness to put these gifts Five plenum sessions explore the Court, mayor of Detroit, legal guardian at the service of others. Dr. Witvliet is the convention theme and its relationship to for Rosa Parks, and a trustee of Western director of the Calvin Institute of Chris- the ministry of pastoral musicians, clergy, Michigan University, Mr. Archer will tian Worship and professor of music and and liturgists. Sister Kathleen Hughes, guide our reflection on war, the economy, worship at Calvin College and Calvin Pastoral Music • January 2010 Theological Seminary in Grand Rapids, their way through all the choices open Michigan. He also teaches in the religion to them, and they want to know what is Hotline Online department at Calvin College. expected of convention participants. This Friday’s plenum is an invitation to be is especially the case with some youth Hotline is an online service provided what the hymn text by Maryanne Quin- participants, who aren’t sure whether they by the Membership Department at the livan, osu, calls “a pilgrim people, . . . the need to stick to the “youth track” or are National Office. Listings include mem- Church of God . . . a family of believers, free to choose among the other options. bers seeking employment, churches disciples of the Lord.” Our final plenum There will be an orientation session for seeking staff, and occasionally church presenter is Melissa Musick Nussbaum, first-time convention participants on music supplies or products for sale. author of books and articles on liturgy Monday morning, and there will be a We encourage institutions offering and faith formation. She has served as youth gathering on Monday afternoon to salaried positions to include the salary campus minister at Colorado College in orient young participants and help them range in the ad and to indicate whether Colorado Springs, and she and her family connect with one another. that range accords with NPM salary live in Colorado Springs, Colorado. What guidelines (http://www.npm.org/Sec- structures help and hinder our ability to Got Pix? tions/DMMD/salaryguidelines.htm). live out our faith “on pilgrimage”? Other useful information: instruments As part of the environment for the in use (pipe or electronic organ, piano), Performances 2010 NPM Convention, we would like to size of choirs, and the names of music showcase . . . you! We will be projecting resources/hymnals in use at the par- Our conventions are opportunities images of our members, their liturgical ish. for the local church and community and assemblies, special celebrations, choirs, A listing may be posted on the web national groups and publishers to present instrumentalists, cantors, presiders, dea- page—www.npm.org—for a period the best they have for our delight. That cons, other music ministers, and singing of sixty days ($65 for members/$90 for delight will begin with the rich venues congregations. non-members). Ads will be posted as that Detroit offers us: the Cathedral of the We prefer high-resolution digital soon as possible. Blessed Sacrament, Renaissance Center, images (jpg, bmp, or tiff). Please submit Format: Following the header Cobo Hall, St. Anne de Detroit (mother your pictures as e-mail attachments to: information (position title, church or church of the archdiocese), Old St. Mary [email protected]. Send photo disks organization name, address, phone, Parish (Greektown), founded in 1834, and (Windows or Mac format) or prints to: Pe- fax, e-mail, and/or website addresses), Ss. Peter and Paul (Detroit’s oldest church ter Maher, Program Coordinator, National ads are limited to a maximum of 100 building, in use since 1848). Association of Pastoral Musicians, 962 words. Performing at these venues will be fa- Wayne Avenue, Suite 210, Silver Spring, Ads may be submitted by e-mail miliar and exciting new composers, sing- MD 20910-4461. to [email protected], faxed to (240) ers, and instrumentalists. Among the per- Please note that, in addition to their use 247-3001, or mailed to: Hotline Ads, 962 formances that feature outstanding local at the convention, some of these images Wayne Avenue, Suite 210, Silver Spring, individuals and groups are the Monday may also be used in NPM publications. If MD 20910-4461. When submitting your Gospel Choir performance coordinated you do not wish your photos to be used ad, please include your membership by John Thorne of the Detroit Archdioc- beyond the display at the Detroit Conven- number and the name of the person esan Office for Black Catholic Ministries. tion, please let us know that when you to whom or institution to which the Tuesday’s evening performances include send them. invoice should be mailed. the Mosaic Children’s Choir, part of the internationally acclaimed Mosaic Youth 2010 Institutes ensemble directors and members, people Theatre of Detroit; a presentation of who work with music with children, and contemporary liturgical music led by Summer Opportunities people wanting to enrich their under- Tim Smith of Waterford, Michigan, and standing of pastoral liturgy. Look for a featuring local musicians; Santiago Fer- Summer is an enriching time for many detailed announcement about the 2010 nandez, currently music minister at St. people—a time to slow down, relax, re- NPM Summer Institutes in the next issue Michael Parish in Pontiac, Michigan, and cover from the first half of the year, and of Pastoral Music and online at http://www. other Hispanic/Latino musicians; and an plan for the coming fall and winter. It’s npm.org/EducationEvents/institutes/in- organ recital at Most Blessed Sacrament also a time for people to do things that dex.html. Cathedral by Marilyn Mason, University they’ve put off—take a walk, read a book, Organist and chair of the Organ Depart- find a great vacation spot, or spend time Program Scholarships ment at the University of Michigan—the with family. Many people also use the first American woman organist to play in summer months to bring themselves up NPM program scholarships are made Westminster Abbey. to date through college courses, institutes, possible through the generosity of NPM and other educational programs. members who have made financial contri- Getting to Know Us NPM offers regular summer opportu- butions to the NPM Program Scholarship nities for people to update, hone skills, Fund. These scholarships are provided First-time participants at NPM conven- and acquire new information through its to assist pastoral musicians with limited tions sometimes find things a little over- institutes. We provide three- to five-day financial resources to take advantage whelming. They need help to negotiate institutes for cantors, choir directors, of opportunities for continuing forma- January 2010 • Pastoral Music tion at NPM conventions and institutes. Applicants for scholarships must be Come to Detroit: Antoine Did NPM members and should be from eco- nomically disadvantaged parishes. The In 1701, Antoine de la Mothe Cadil- financial need of the applicant should lac led a group of French traders to the be reflected in the application. NPM banks of the Detroit River. There, the encourages members of all ethnic and two priests traveling with the traders racial groups to apply for scholarships. established the Church of Saint Anne. Scholarship applications are consid- (This parish, now in its fifth location, is ered on a case-by-case basis. Scholar- still serving the community.) Between ships are awarded depending on the 1701 and 1833, the area around this financial need of the applicant and the French trading outpost became part of amount of funds available in the NPM an English colony and then an Ameri- Program Scholarship Fund. Scholarships can territory and, finally, a state. Father for conventions include full convention Gabriel Richard laid the foundations registration only. Scholarships for NPM of the diocese, though he never served institutes include the commuter registra- as bishop in Detroit. He did co-found tion fee only. All remaining costs must be the University of Michigan, brought borne by the applicant and/or his or her Michigan its first printing press, served parish. as pastor to St. Anne—and, for a while, Scholarship recipients are to submit a to a Protestant community that invited follow-up report, reflecting on their con- him to be their pastor—and served as vention or institute experience, describing a delegate from the Michigan Territory what they have learned, what they are to the U.S. House of Representatives. taking back to their parish, and how they The Diocese of Detroit was estab- can implement what they have learned. lished in 1833, and Frederic Rese was For further information check the NPM ordained its first bishop. At its creation, website: http://www.npm.org/Educa- the diocese served the whole Northwest Territory, but when Michigan became a tionEvents/program_scholarship/schol- and then served as an administrator state in 1837, the diocesan boundaries arships.htm. in the Vatican Secretariat of State in were re-drawn to coincide with the Rome. In 1994, he returned to Detroit state. to become the second rector-president Looking for Hosts While the diocese grew steadily of the re-founded Sacred Heart Major through the nineteenth century, the Would your diocese like to host an Seminary. In 1996, he was ordained an diocese and the city expanded dramati- NPM institute in a year after 2010? If auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of cally at the beginning of the twentieth you have access to a facility that you Detroit, and then, in 2003, he became century, as people came from Europe think would be able to house one of our coadjutor bishop of Oakland, Cali- and from the American South to work programs, and if you know someone fornia. Bishop Vigneron oversaw the in the growing automobile industry. who would be willing to serve as the design and construction of the new Detroit became an archdiocese in 1937, local contact person/host, please contact 1,350-seat Cathedral of Christ the Light and its new archbishop—Edward Father Paul Colloton, op, at the NPM in Oakland. Shortly after its dedication, Francis Mooney—was appointed to National Office. Phone: (240) 247-3000; on September 25, 2008, he returned to the College of Cardinals in 1946. John e-mail: [email protected]. Detroit as archbishop. Francis Dearden—Detroit’s second archbishop—attended all the meet- Members Update ings of the Second Vatican Council and played a significant role in the New Book Review Editor development of several conciliar docu- ments (he became a cardinal in 1969). Rev. James Challancin, a priest of Two more archbishops, also named to the Diocese of Marquette, Michigan, is the College of Cardinals, succeeded the new book review editor for Pastoral Dearden—Cardinal Edmund Casimir Music, replacing Szoka and Cardinal Adam Maida. Anne Koester, Most Rev.Allen H. Vigneron was in- who served as stalled as the fifth archbishop of Detroit book review edi- on January 28, 2009. Ordained a priest tor for six years for the Archdiocese of Detroit in 1975, (see the August Father Vigneron earned a doctorate issue of Pastoral in philosophy from The Catholic Uni- Music, page ten). versity of America in 1987. He taught Father Challancin at Detroit’s Sacred Heart Seminary has a doctorate Pastoral Music • January 2010 in liturgy from the Pontifical Liturgical Institute of St. Anselm in Rome, Italy. He taught at St. John’s Provincial Seminary, Plymouth, Michigan, for ten years; he then returned to his home diocese to become the director of the Office of Worship and the Lay Ministries Leadership School. Father Challancin next served for five years as the director of the Rensselaer Program of Church Music and Liturgy at St. Joseph College, Rensselaer, Indiana. He is presently pastor of St. Joseph Parish, Ishpeming, Michigan. Father Challancin has had a number of articles published in pastoral magazines and has also written a book, The Assembly Celebrates (Paulist Press). Notebook: E-volving As at past conventions, in Detroit we will be projecting images of our members, NPM’s membership newsletter,Pasto- their liturgical assemblies, special celebrations, choirs, instrumentalists, cantors, ral Music Notebook, is changing shape. For presiders, deacons, other music ministers, and singing congregations. thirty-one years, it was sent as a printed We prefer high-resolution digital images (jpg, bmp, or tiff). Please submit your resource to our members in the six months pictures as e-mail attachments to: [email protected]. Send photo disks (Win- when Pastoral Music magazine wasn’t dows or Mac format) or prints to: Peter Maher, Program Coordinator, National printed. Then, in 2008, we offered it as Association of Pastoral Musicians, 962 Wayne Avenue, Suite 210, Silver Spring, an online resource as well as in print, and MD 20910-4461. in November 2009 most of our members began receiving it in electronic format, Please note that, in addition to their use at the convention, some of these images may following the same every-other-month also be used in NPM publications. If you do not wish your photos to be used beyond the pattern. But in the world of e-com- display at the Detroit Convention, please let us know that when you send them. munication, blogs, and online forums, NPM has decided to be in more frequent canonization took place on October 11. Retired NPM member Dolores Deyne contact with our members, and Notebook One Mass preceded the canonization, Itzel died at the age of seventy-five in is changing to reflect that commitment. at St. Paul Outside the Walls (in Italian), Scott Township, Pennsylvania, on October Beginning in February 2010, then, Pastoral and the other two followed at St. Mary 19. After graduating from Mary Grove Music Notebook will appear twice a month, Major (in English) and St. John Lateran College in Detroit, Michigan, Dolores every month, in an electronic format (no (in French). Mr. Mohr and the choir he has Neff was the piano accompanist for Mitzi printed version). Each issue will contain directed for twenty years were asked to Gaynor for four years. She married Robert short notices and story links to assist our participate in the canonization celebration M. Itzel, Sr., and through the fifty-one members in their ministry and to update because, for six years, the choir has been years of their married life, their family them on important happenings that may singing at the Queen of Peace Residence grew to include five children. For many affect that ministry. Watch for it! of the Little Sisters of the Poor in Queens years Dolores served as the choir direc- Village, New York. tor and secretary for St. John Capistran Modulations Church, Upper St. Clair, retiring in 1995. Keep in Mind Her funeral liturgy was celebrated at St. NPM member Father Joseph Siegel, John Capistran on October 23, the parish a priest of the Diocese of Joliet, Illinois, Though he had serious medical prob- feast day. has been named by Pope Benedict XVI lems, former NPM member Mark Paige’s At the age of sixty-one, NPM member to serve as the diocese’s auxiliary bishop. death at his home on October 5 was un- Father Ed Hinds, pastor of St. Patrick Ordained in 1988, Bishop-elect Siegel has expected. Mark lived near Albany, New Parish in Chatham, New Jersey, was spent his whole priestly ministry in parish York, most of his life, and served several stabbed to death at his rectory after an work. His ordination to the episcopate parishes as music director and organist. argument with the is scheduled for January 19 at Joliet’s He moved to the Boston area and served parish maintenance Cathedral of St. Raymond Nonnatus. for nine years as director of music minis- man on October 22. NPM member Glenn Mohr, founder tries at St. Theresa Parish, North Reading, (Longtime NPM and director of the Glenn Mohr Chorale, Massachusetts. In the notice to the parish, member Richard led his choir in Rome during the triduum the pastor described Mark as “bright, Barnett is the direc- of Masses to celebrate the canonization driven, and purposeful.” A memorial tor of music minis- of Saint Jeanne Jugan, founder of the Mass was celebrated on October 26 at the tries at the parish.) Little Sisters of the Poor. Saint Jeanne’s Church of Christ the King, Albany. He had been at the 10 January 2010 • Pastoral Music parish since 2003. Born in Morristown, Worship (BCDW). These annual meet- Ed Hinds attended high school there ings update participants on important and college at Seton Hall University. He liturgical topics and identify national and was ordained in 1974 for the Diocese of regional priorities in worship. Hosts for Paterson. Following an early stint at St. this year’s meeting were the Archdiocese Webinar Patrick, he became the vice chancellor of Detroit and the dioceses of Michigan q a seminar on the web q of the Diocese of Paterson and secretary and Ohio. to the bishop from 1978 to 1985. He also In their addresses, Bishop Arthur Ser- February 11, 2010 served as pastor of St. Michael Church in ratelli (BCDW chair) Archbishop Daniel 2:00 et Netcong and Our Lady of Mount Carmel Pilarczyk, Sister Katarina Schuth, osf, Father Paul Turner Church in Boonton. The funeral liturgy for and Cardinal Daniel DiNardo looked at Father Hinds was celebrated on October the history of and some current practices 31 at St. Patrick Parish. in liturgical formation. We pray: O God, whose mercies can- The Federation brought delegates up to not be numbered, accept our prayers on date on its preparations to implement the behalf of your servants, and grant them new English translation of the Roman Mis- entrance into the land of light and joy, in sal: pre-packaged workshops for priests the fellowship of your saints. and parish leaders in PowerPoint format; audio CDs that model ways of praying the Meetings and Reports new texts (NPM is working on record- ings of the music in the new missal); and national workshops sponsored by FDLC, Preparing for the Fortieth National Meeting BCDW, and the National Organization for of Diocesan Liturgical the Continuing Education of the Roman New Roman Missal Commissions Catholic Clergy (NOCERCC). In this one-hour webinar, Father Delegates adopted two position state- Turner will offer practical sugges- Delegates from ninety-seven dioceses ments—on mystagogy as a catechetical tions to help pastors, musicians, gathered in Plymouth, Michigan, October tool and on the process for preparing and other pastoral leaders prepare 6–9, for the fortieth annual national meet- position statements at the meeting. They themselves, their communities, and ing of diocesan liturgical commissions, also affirmed a resolution to develop their liturgical ministers for the new jointly sponsored by the Federation of tools for measuring the effectiveness of English translation of the Roman Diocesan Liturgical Commissions (FDLC) the preparatory and implementation Missal. For more information, go to and the Bishops’ Committee on Divine materials for the new translation of the http://www.npm.org/index.html. & ummerS ng Renew your craft, renew your prayer! 2010 July 18-30, 2010 A comprehensive, twelve day program co-sponsored by the University of Notre Dame’s Department of Theology, Center for Litury and Office of Campus Ministry. t"HSBEVBUFDPVSTFJO-JUVSHJDBM:FBSPS3JUVBM4UVEJFT t"QQMJFENVTJDBMTLJMMTJOPSHBO QJBOP HVJUBS WPJDF conducting and choir. Michael Driscoll Nicholas Ayo, csc Michele Warner Don LaSalle, S.M.M. Jerry Galipeau Director Evening Conferences Cantor, Vocals Liturgical Year Music & The Rites t.PSOJOH1SBZFS &WFOJOH1SBZFS &VDIBSJTUBOE$PNQMJOF tt4QFDJBMBUUFOUJPOUPUIFJNQMFNFOUBUJPOPGUIFNew Roman Missal. 1BSUJBMTDIPMBSTIJQTBWBJMBCMFGPSBMMmSTUUJNFQBSUJDJQBOUT underwritten, in part, by a generous gift from the +41BMVDI$PNQBOZ8PSME-JCSBSZ1VCMJDBUJPOT proud sponsors of this program. 4QBDFJTMJNJUFEUPDBOEJEBUFT"QQMJDBUJPOTBWBJMBCMFPOMJOF Michael Joncas Michelle Rego Paul Turner Nancy Menk Ritual Studies, Music Keyboard, Vocals New Roman Missal Conducting MJUVSHZOEFEVTVNNFSTPOH 4QSJOHBQQMJDBUJPO EFBEMJOF"QSJM Jane O’Keefe Karen Kirner Steve Warner Organ Piano, Handbells Co-Director; Guitar Pastoral Music • January 2010 11 missal as well as the effectiveness of the bership coordinator, pointed out three implementation process and the reception factors that led to this turnaround: online of the new translation in parishes and registration and renewal, active member- dioceses. ship recruitment by state organizations and association divisions, and added membership benefits provided through More Choir Directors the association’s website and national initiatives. As it celebrates its fiftieth year, the Mark Smith, ACDA’s division accoun- American Choral Directors Association tant, reported that the challenge has not (ACDA) has reported rising member- been so much to attract and register new ship through 2009—an additional 500 members as it has been to retain renewing new members by the end of October. members. Early indications, he says, show In Conjunction This trend reverses a ten-year decline in that ease of membership registration and the association’s membership. In a press renewal coupled with added membership with the 2010 Convention release, Leane DeFrancis, ACDA mem- benefits are key to ACDA’s growth. Chant Institute with Anthony Ruff, osb Practical skills and background in the NPM Scholarships 2010 development, performance, and place to assist with the cost of educational formation for pastoral musicians of chant in the liturgy. $31,750 in Available Scholarships: Sessions begin Monday morning, July • $3,000 NPM Members Scholarship 12, and continue through the breakout • $3,000 NPM Nancy Bannister Scholarship sessions to Friday, July 16. • $3,000 NPM Perrot Scholarship • $2,000 NPM Koinonia Scholarship • $2,000 NPM Board of Directors Scholarship • $2,000 NPM MuSonics Graduate Scholarship Handbell Institute • $2,000 NPM MuSonics Undergraduate Scholarship with Jean McLaughlin • $2,500 Paluch Family Foundation/WLP Scholarship and Donna Kinsey • $2,500 OCP Scholarship • $2,000 GIA Pastoral Musicians Scholarship For handbell choir directors, choirs, • $1,250 University of Notre Dame Folk Choir Scholarship and individual ringers. • $1,000 Funk Family Memorial Scholarship • $1,000 Dosogne/Rendler-Georgetown Chorale Scholarship Sessions begin Monday morning, July • $1,000 Dan Schutte Scholarship 12, and continue through the breakout • $1,000 Father Lawrence Heiman, cpps, Scholarship sessions to Friday, July 16. • $1,000 Steven C. Warner Scholarship • $1,000 Lucien Deiss, cssp, Scholarship NPM also donates $500 toward the $1,000 Rensselaer Challenge Grant administered by DMMD Choral Institute the Rensselaer Program of Church Music and Liturgy at Saint Joseph College, Rensselaer, Indiana. with Kent Tritle Eligibility Requirements Participation limited to members of the NPM Director of Music Ministries Applicant must be an NPM member with a demonstrated financial need enrolled Division. Sessions begin Tuesday af- full-time or part-time in a graduate or undergraduate degree program of studies ternoon, July 13, and continue through related to the field of pastoral music during the 2010–2011 school year. Applicant the afternoon breakout sessions to should intend to work at least two years in the field of pastoral music following Thursday, July 15. The Institute con- graduation/program completion. Scholarship funds may be applied only to reg- cludes with a festival performance on istration, tuition, fees, or books. Scholarship is awarded for one year only; former Thursday evening. recipients may re-apply, but renewal is not automatic. Application Deadline: March 5, 2010 Registration Information For application or additional information contact: is on the convention registration National Association of Pastoral Musicians form in this issue of Pastoral Music, 962 Wayne Avenue, Suite 210 • Silver Spring, MD 20910-4461 or go to http://www.npm.org/Educa- Phone: (240) 247-3000 • Fax: (240) 247-3001 • Web: www.npm.org tionEvents/convention/index.htm. 12 January 2010 • Pastoral Music Paul Otto Manz 1919–2009 “E’en So, Lord, Quickly Come” On October 29, 2009, after ministry as Cantor at Mount weeks in hospice and years of Olive. (In the Lutheran tradi- declining health, internation- tion, the Cantor—or Kan- ally celebrated organist, pas- tor—is the person who leads toral musician, and composer congregational singing. The Paul Manz died at the age of term is being used increas- ninety in St. Paul, Minnesota. ingly to designate pastoral As he was dying, his family musicians known in Roman gathered around his bed and Catholic parishes as directors sang the motet for which he of music ministries.) was best known, “E’en So, In 1983, the Manzes moved Lord, Quickly Come.” to Chicago, where Paul served Born in Cleveland, Ohio, as professor of church music on May 10, 1919, Paul began and artist in residence at the piano lessons at age five. Two Lutheran School of Theology years later, he began study- at Chicago and as Cantor at the ing organ as well, traveling Evangelical Lutheran Church through high school and college to study with teachers of St. Luke. Paul retired from the seminary in 1992, but in Illinois, Ohio, and Minnesota. After graduation from he then began to provide workshops and master classes Concordia College in River Forest, Illinois, in 1941, Paul around the country from a base at the Paul Manz Insti- served parishes and schools in Wisconsin and Minnesota. tute of Church Music, headquartered at the Church of In 1943, he married Ruth Mueller, whom he described St. Luke. as the “cantus firmus in our home and for our children.” Through these years, Paul performed in numerous Through sixty-five years of marriage, the couple were churches, cathedrals, and concert halls around the world. exceptionally close, until Ruth died in 2008. His work developing an American version of the classic In 1946, Paul became the full-time director of Christian organ chorale took him to thousands of hymn festivals, education and music at Mount Olive Lutheran Church and his ministry in congregational song and musical in Minneapolis, which he served for thirty-seven years, liturgy served as an inspiration to generations of pasto- though his responsibilities changed as his fame grew. ral musicians. When asked for advice for someone just He earned a master’s degree in organ performance from starting in the field of church music, he said: “Love the Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, in 1952, people you have been called to serve.” and a Fulbright grant in 1956 took him to Antwerp, In 1999, after Paul retired from the Manz Institute Belgium, to study with Flor Peeters and to Frankfurt, and St. Luke Church at the age of eighty, the Manzes Germany, to study with Helmut Walcha. moved back to Minneapolis. Paul planned to continue He served on the faculties of the University of Min- his teaching and performance activity, but an infection nesota and Macalester College in St. Paul, until he robbed him of much of his hearing in 2000, and he had became a professor and chair of the Division of Fine to give up playing the organ. Arts at Concordia College in St. Paul. He continued at The funeral liturgy for Paul Manz—composer, recital- the college until the divisions that split the Lutheran ist, pastoral musician, minister of the Word, clinician, Church-Missouri Synod in the early 1970s, when he re- author, organ consultant, Cantor—took place in St. Paul, signed from the college and returned to full-time parish Minnesota, on November 8. Pastoral Music • January 2010 13 Margaret A. Paluch 1922–2009 Margaret A. Paluch’s vocation ministry in the two great personal commit- Church and underwrites an ments—to her family and annual national vocations to her Church—shaped her seminar. In recognition of life and guided her business. her dedication to vocation Known from childhood ministry, the National Reli- as “Mickey,” Margaret A. gious Vocation Conference McBride married Chester honored Mickey with its Paluch, who worked in the 1987 John Paul II Award. family business founded by Two years later, she was his father, John S. Paluch, honored by the National in Chicago in 1913. At first, Conference of Diocesan the small publishing firm Vocations Directors, which produced devotional booklets for the Catholic commu- also established the Margaret A. Paluch Award in her nity. But when Chester became owner after his father’s honor in 1995. And in 1998, the Catholic Theological death, he took the company in a different direction. Union (CTU) in Chicago, the largest Roman Catholic Chester heard the call for “active participation” by the graduate school of theology and ministry in the United congregation that had been a hallmark of the liturgical States, dedicated Margaret Paluch Hall in honor of movement in the first half of the twentieth century. So Mickey’s lifelong devotion to the Church. in the 1950s the J. S. Paluch company began providing Mickey was also known for her generous gifts of time a participation aid—the Missalette—to Chicago area and money. She often contributed her time and resources parishes, so that people could follow the Latin Mass to fund-raising for the Archdiocese of Chicago and for with an accurate English translation. Mickey, who loved religious orders, and she provided personal assistance singing and served in choirs, was deeply involved in the to fund seminary study costs. In 1991, she endowed the company’s work, particularly after J. S. Paluch acquired Margaret and Chester Paluch Chair of Theology at the World Library Publications in 1971. After her husband’s University of St. Mary of the Lake Seminary/Mundelein death in 1980, Mickey became chair of the board of di- Seminary, and in 1995 she established the Paluch Family rectors—a position that she held until her death, at age Foundation to promote liturgy, stewardship, and voca- eighty-seven, following a stroke on October 8, 2009. tion projects. In 2007, she received the Pope John Paul II Mickey balanced her work at the family business Seminary Leadership Award from the National Catholic with the serious task of being a mother. She consid- Educational Association Seminary Department for her ered her most durable legacy to be her children and distinguished service to Roman Catholic seminaries in grandchildren—her nine children and her seventeen the United States and Canada. grandchildren. Especially because of her interest in vocations, Mickey’s funeral liturgy was celebrated on October Mickey put her own stamp on the work of her family’s 12 at St. Paul of the Cross Parish in Park Ridge, Illinois, company. In 1985, she established the company’s Na- where she had served as a pastoral musician for many tional Vocation Awareness Division, which supports years. 14 January 2010 • Pastoral Music The Rensselaer Spirit: Still Strong at Fifty By Steven R. Janco he Rensselaer Program of Church Sister Theophane Hytrek, sssf, Rev. Paul Music and Liturgy of Saint Jo- Arbogast, Sister Marie Brendan Harvey, T seph’s College, Rensselaer, Indiana, sp, Dr. Philip Gehring, Benedictine sisters will celebrate a half-century of summer Marilyn Schauble and Charlotte Zalot, study in liturgy and church music during Monsignor Donald Reagan, Rev. Ed- the 2010 NPM National Convention in ward Foley, capuchin, Sister Joyce Ann Detroit. The golden jubilee will be high- Zimmerman, c.pp.s., and Rev. Richard lighted in a number of events, including Fragomeni. The Rensselaer Program has a three-part “Rensselaer Jubilee Lectures” been served by four directors: Father Hei- series that will chronicle developments in man (1960–1993), Rev. James Challancin liturgical music since Vatican II; Wednes- (1994–2000), Rev. Keith Branson, c.pp.s. day Morning Prayer led by the SJC Sum- (2001–2005), and myself (2006–present). mer Chorus; and a festive reception for students, alumni, current and former faculty members, and invited guests. Evolved and Adapted Originally called the Saint Joseph’s Institute of Liturgical Music, the program Though the Rensselaer Program ini- was the fulfillment of a dream of Rev. tially focused on chant and polyphony, Lawrence Heiman, c.pp.s., who returned it evolved and adapted in response to from studies at Musica Sacra in Rome with Vatican II reforms and the changing an idea to develop in the United States a musical needs of the Church. After the similar program focused on Gregorian promulgation of the Constitution on the chant and polyphony. Together with class- The chapel at St. Joseph’s College, Sacred Liturgy Sacrosanctum Concilium in mate Rev. Eugene Lindusky, osc, noted Rensselaer, Indiana. 1963 and with vernacular liturgy on the composer and organist Noël Goemanne, horizon, SJC faculty and students took and liturgist Rev. Robert Lechner, c.pp.s., on the task of translating and adapting Father Heiman launched the program in antiphons from the Graduale Romanum the summer of 1960 with twenty-five stu- for “experimental” use in the vernacular dents. In choosing to name the program liturgy. Published by World Library of the Saint Joseph’s Institute of Liturgical Sacred Music in 1964, Complete English Music, he employed a term that would Propers for the High Mass was the first have been new to many: Sacred music was volume of a new John XXIII Series of the term commonly used in documents Liturgical Music edited by SJC faculty. and discourse at that time. I suspect that Rather than pairing its new English texts he found his inspiration in Pius XII’s 1955 with established Gregorian psalm tones, document Musicae Sacrae, which used the the volume employed “principles for term—but in just one sentence! psalm recitation” that had been “devel- Within five years the number of stu- oped through centuries of experience by dents and faculty had more than doubled. our English-speaking Christian brethren Dr. John and Anne-Marie Egan joined the of other faiths.” The John XXIII Series SJC faculty in 1963—John teaching theory, also included a series of volumes of Latin Dr. Steven R. Janco is the director of the composition, and organ, and Anne-Marie motets in English translation. One of these Rensselaer Program of Church Music and teaching theory and piano. (John Egan, volumes, Ten Renaissance Motets in English: Liturgy at Saint Joseph’s College, Rens- who served as music department chair at Volume Four, is still available in the World selaer, Indiana, and director of liturgy and SJC until 2008, continues to teach piano Library Publications catalogue. music at St. Eulalia Parish, Maywood, today.) More than a few prominent church The Rensselaer Program embraced the Illinois. For more information about the musicians and liturgical scholars have cultural diversity of the U.S. Church long Rensselaer Program, visit www.saintjoe. taught in the program over the years, before the term “multicultural” became edu/academics/liturgy. including Father Columba Kelly, osb, commonplace in our liturgical lexicon. Pastoral Music • January 2010 15 For several years SJC partnered with the National Office for Black Catholics and hosted in Rensselaer an annual six-day workshop on African American liturgy and liturgical music. These workshops were led by legendary composer and liturgist Rev. Clarence Rivers as well as by well-known conductors Avon Gillespie and Robert Ray, whose Gospel Mass still is performed by concert choirs today. More than 100 participants attended these workshops in the mid-1970s. It is no overstatement to say that alumni and faculty of the Rensselaer Program have played—and continue to play—a significant role in the liturgical life of the Church in the United States. Joselyn Brenner, sssf, one of the first graduates of the program, founded the Office of Wor- ship in the Archdiocese of Omaha and later served as a consultant to the Bishops’ Committee on the Liturgy (now Divine Worship) and as a member of the music committee of the Federation of Diocesan Liturgical Commissions. Luanne Durst, osf, another early graduate, served for a number of years on the staff of the BCL Secretariat in Washington. Recent alumni and former students currently serve in di- ocesan worship offices in Detroit, Chicago, Seattle, and Lafayette, Indiana. Music -di Sisters Joselyn Brenner, Colette Helbach, and Luanne Durst were among the first graduates rectors at the cathedrals in Detroit, Green of the Rensselaer Program. Also pictured are Rev. Lawrence Heiman, c.pp.s., and Rev. Paul Bay, Manchester, New Hampshire, and Arbogast. Dubuque, Iowa, are recent SJC gradu- ates. A number of well-known liturgical composers studied at SJC, including Rev. John Schiavone, Kevin Keil, Carey Landry, James Hansen, and Rev. Ralph Verdi, c.pp.s.. Verdi also served for many years as theory and composition professor at SJC. Hymn writer Delores Dufner, osb, is another well-known graduate of the program. Thorough, Practical, Pastoral From the beginning, the program has insisted that church musicians must re- Members of the 2007 Summer Chorus at commencement ceive thorough training in liturgy. Though the program had convened for four sum- mers before Sacrosanctum Concilium was ing, voice, organ, piano, composition, or of the Rensselaer Program has been its promulgated, specific courses in liturgy ensemble music) as part of an integrated practical, pastoral focus. Grounded in and liturgical theology were required course of study in church music and lit- the Church’s liturgical tradition and from the beginning. Most seminaries at urgy. The master of arts in pastoral liturgy documents, the program seeks to help the time did not even offer such courses. and music, added to the SJC catalogue in students develop the expertise, skills, and The program continues the same “both/ 2001, provides foundational coursework strategies necessary to promote effective and” focus today in its two graduate in church music and greater breadth of liturgical celebration in parishes. Rather degree programs. The master of arts in study in liturgy. A three-summer course of than promoting one musical or liturgi- music (concentration: church music and study leading to the diploma in pastoral cal “ideal,” the program recognizes the liturgy) allows students to pursue one liturgy is also available. cultural diversity of the Church in the of six performance emphases (conduct- One of the distinguishing features United States and considers the variety 16 January 2010 • Pastoral Music Avon Gillespie, Rev. Lawrence Heiman, c.pp.s., Rev. Clarence Jos. Rivers, and Maurice McCall at the 1976 African American Liturgical Music Workshop, co-sponsored by the National Dr. Stephen Janco was installed as the fourth Office for Black Catholics. director of the Rensselaer Program during the 2006 summer commencement. of pastoral settings in which liturgy is more depth than a one-hour convention celebrated. The goal of the program is workshop or daylong seminar. Approval to form capable pastoral ministers who of Sing to the Lord: Music in Divine Worship have also been among the recipients of are able to work collaboratively, embrace by the United States Conference of Catho- the many scholarships currently awarded diversity thoughtfully, deal with change lic Bishops afforded us an opportunity through NPM. patiently, and serve humbly with a pas- to take the Rensselaer Program on the Though there is much to celebrate as toral heart. road. In 2008 the program co-sponsored the Rensselaer Program of Church Music The program’s month-long, summers- a “study day” on the document in the and Liturgy looks back on fifty years of only format is well-suited to this practical Archdiocese of Chicago and similar days service, college administrators and faculty focus, facilitating a praxis-theory-praxis in the midwestern dioceses of Springfield, remain focused on the program’s ongoing learning model. At the end of July each Grand Rapids, and Lafayette in Indiana. mission to provide the kind of integrated year, students return to ministry to put The summer faculty continues to grow liturgical, musical, and pastoral forma- into practice what they’ve learned. The and change as well. Dr. Richard McCar- tion described in Sing to the Lord. One of following summer they return for further ron, chair of the Department of Word and the highlights of the jubilee year will be study with new questions and with the Worship at Catholic Theological Union the awarding of the first Precious Blood benefit of another year of experience. Most in Chicago, joined the liturgy faculty Sisters Scholarship to a new graduate graduate students complete the master’s in 2009. Sister Mary Jane Wagner, sssf, student. The scholarship is made possible program in four or five summers. well-known organist and teacher from by a recent gift from the Precious Blood The Rensselaer Program continues Milwaukee, will return to SJC as organ Sisters of Dayton, Ohio. In remarks made to grow and evolve in response to new professor in 2010. Father Columba Kelly, at the program’s annual Summer Chorus needs and challenges. In recent years an osb, continues the program’s longstand- concert on July 25, Joyce Ann Zimmerman, ensemble music emphasis was added, ing commitment to Gregorian chant as c.pp.s., praised the program’s pastoral enabling guitar and flute players to leader of the program’s annual three-day focus and solid reputation and expressed pursue a master’s degree in music. In Gregorian Chant Institute. hope that the sisters’ gift will help the 2006 the program began offering several program continue to flourish in the future. three-day liturgy intensives that provide Close Ties SJC also awards an annual scholarship It is no overstatement to say made possible by a gift from Peter Bahou, that alumni and faculty of NPM and the Rensselaer Program have president of Peter’s Way Choir Tours. always had close ties. Father Heiman was Father Heiman, who retired from the Rensselaer Program have one of the founders of NPM and served the Saint Joseph’s College faculty just played—and continue to for nearly thirty years as editor of the three years ago, has always been fond of play—a significant role in the “Calendar” column for Pastoral Music. saying that a unique “Rensselaer spirit” liturgical life of the Church in The first NPM regional convention was takes over Saint Joseph’s College during the United States. held in Rensselaer in 1980. NPM continues the summer. As the Rensselaer Program to fund one-half of a $1,000 scholarship begins its next half-century of service, awarded annually by SJC to a first-year that spirit remains as strong and vibrant graduate student. Rensselaer students as ever. Pastoral Music • January 2010 17 Now is the time to have a wLP ChoraL subsCriPtioN! 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