Graduate Courses

	THEO 60-414. Liturgical Year for the Pastoral Musician (LS) 2 Credits Donald LaSalle 8:10-10:30 MTWRF, July 18-July 30, 2010 This course is an overview of Sunday and the major seasons of the year for liturgical musicians. It considers key principles of the liturgical year and applies a basic historical and theological understanding of each season to liturgical planning and the selection and evaluation of liturgical music repertoire. (SummerSong Program: Two-week course.) Fr. Donald LaSalle, S.M.M. is vicar general of his religious order, the Montfort Missionaries, in Rome. Before taking this position, he was director of programs at Montfort House Retreat Center in Litchfield, Connecticut and Adjunct Professor of Liturgy at Immaculate Conception Seminary in Huntington, New York. He currently serves as the secretary of the North American Academy of Liturgy and is a member of the editorial board of Liturgical Ministries. Fr. LaSalle earned a doctorate in sacramental theology and liturgy from The Catholic University of America. In 1997, he successfully defended his dissertation, entitled Liturgical and Popular Lament: A Study of the Role of Lament in Liturgical and Popular Religious Practices of Good Friday in Northern Italy from the Twelfth to the Sixteenth Centuries.
	THEO 60-435. The Roman Missal: Preparation and Reception (LS) 2 Credits Michael Driscoll and Paul Turner 8:10 - 10:30 MTWHF, July 18-July 30, 2010 This course will look at the revised third edition of the Roman Missal and its translation into English currently in preparation. During the first week, as a prelude to the current missal a study of the origins and development of liturgical books used for mass will be undertaken, beginning with the sacramentaries, the calendar, the ordo missae and ritual ordines, with the related questions concerning liturgical legislation. Consideration will be given to the development of the musical parts, such as chant books, antiphonaries, graduals, and the proper and ordinary parts of the mass. During the second week participants will receive an overview of the contents of the third edition of the missal, the process of its translation, and an analysis of the revised texts for the Order of Mass. (SummerSong Program: Two-week course) Fr. Michael S. Driscoll teaches in the Department of Theology at Notre Dame and is the founding director of the Master of Sacred Music program. His scholarly interests are in the area of liturgy and sacramental theology, having published a monograph entitled Alcuin et la pénitence à l'époque carolingienne (LQF 81) and numerous articles in journals such as Worship, Ecclesia Orans and Traditio. He served for many years as convener of the study group on Medieval Liturgy for the North American Academy of Liturgy of which he was president (2001-2). He has also served as an advisor to the Bishops’ Committee on the Divine Worship, a standing committee of the USCCB. He recently was elected to the leadership of the Catholic Academy of Liturgy. Paul Turner is pastor of St. Munchin parish in Cameron, Missouri and its mission, St. Aloysius in Maysville. A priest of the diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph, he holds a doctorate in sacred theology from Sant' Anselmo in Rome. His books include The Catechumenate Answer Book (Resource Publications, 2000), Your Child's Baptism (Liturgy Training Publications, 1999), The Hallelujah Highway: A History of the Catechumenate (Liturgy Training Publications, 2000), The Catholic Wedding Answer Book (Resource Publications, 2001), Let Us Pray: A Guide to the Rubrics of Sunday Mass (Liturgical Press, 2006), When Other Christians Become Catholic (Liturgical Press, 2007), and Celebrating Initiation: A Guide For Priests (World Library Publications, 2008). He writes "Bulletin Inserts" for Ministry and Liturgy magazine. He is a former President of the North American Academy of Liturgy and a team member for the North American Forum on the Catechumenate. He serves as a facilitator for the International Commission on English in the Liturgy.
	THEO 60-432. Liturgy from a Ritual Studies Perspective (LS) 3 Credits Michael Joncas 2:00 - 4:20 MTWHF, July 18-July 30, 2010 The course will basically do three things: 1) distinguish among theological, historical, and social sciences (pastoral) approaches to the study of liturgy; 2) introduce students to the new field of ritual studies as a means of studying liturgy from a social science point of view; and 3) do some fieldwork engaging liturgical music as a means of putting ritual theory into practice. Michael Joncas is a liturgical composer, author, speaker, and professor who is perhaps best known for his song "On Eagle's Wings." He graduated magna cum laude with a bachelor's degree in English from the University of St. Thomas and graduated summa cum laude from the University of Notre Dame with a master's degree in theology and liturgical studies. Michael also graduated summa cum laude with degrees in liturgical studies from Pontificio Istituto Liturgico of the Ateneo Sant'Anselmo. From 1980 to 1984, he was associate pastor with Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary Parish in Maplewood, Minnesota. Following that assignment, he was campus minister and education director for the Newman Center at the University of Minnesota from 1984 to 1987. Next, from 1987 to 1991, he was focused on graduate study in Rome. From 1991 to 1993, he was a parochial administrator at St. Cecilia's Parish in St. Paul, Minnesota. Michael has published three books, titled The Catechism of the Catholic Church on Liturgy and Sacraments, Preaching the Rites of Christian Initiation and From Sacred Song to Ritual Music. Over 100 of his articles have appeared in publications such as Worship, Pastoral Music and Ecclesia Orans. He also has over 20 collections of liturgical music. He is currently an associate professor in the Department of Theology at the University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota.