Here's a wonderful new promotional video from the Liturgical Institute of the University of St. Mary of the Lake in Chicago:
Watching this is very sentimental for me because it was filmed during the summer session of this past year while I was on campus as a student at the Liturgical Institute. It truly is a remarkable place and I believe that the vision of the institute is the way of the future in the liturgy and in the Church.
I strongly encourage anyone who seeks to be thoroughly imbued with the Spirit of the Liturgy to consider studies at the Liturgical Institute. Though not a school of music I find that it offers something to church musicians that they will not find anywhere else–a thorough study of the theological foundations of the liturgy; a training perhaps not in the how of sacred music, but a firm grounding in the what and why of the liturgy, and of the sacred music that is in service of it. Highly recommended!
(By the way, did you catch Kevin Allen in the video who has directed the institute's sacred music retreat over the past two years?)
I strongly encourage anyone who seeks to be thoroughly imbued with the Spirit of the Liturgy to consider studies at the Liturgical Institute. Though not a school of music I find that it offers something to church musicians that they will not find anywhere else–a thorough study of the theological foundations of the liturgy; a training perhaps not in the how of sacred music, but a firm grounding in the what and why of the liturgy, and of the sacred music that is in service of it. Highly recommended!
(By the way, did you catch Kevin Allen in the video who has directed the institute's sacred music retreat over the past two years?)
