The St Augustine Liturgical Atelier of Hungary

invites you
to the international conference

Pope  Benedict XVI  and  the  Sacred  Liturgy

to be held in Budapest
from 21st to 24th August 2008
 

 

 

Pope Benedict XVI, as the Successor of St Peter, considers one of his most important duties to promote the holy and worthy celebration of the liturgy and, if necessary, even to act in its defence. This attention of the Pontiff, as well known, is manifested not only in fostering the liturgy introduced after the Second Vatican Council and in condemning its abuses and distortions, but is also related to the restoration of the legitimate use of the traditional Roman liturgy celebrated throughout the centuries to the spiritual benefit of great many souls.

 

This solicitude of the Holy Father urged many people to improve their liturgical practice as well as to make efforts to recognise the true values of the liturgy and to be immersed in its internal and external treasures. As a consequence, thinking about and caring for the holy liturgy has been awakened everywhere in the Church, including Hungary, and has lead both to the re-examination of our present attitudes and to the searching for future perspectives. At the same time, one cannot deny that in some particular churches the efforts of the Vicar of Christ are being met with negligence or even with opposition. In many places there is an unfolding passive resistance against the revival of catholic traditions and against the new legislation which supports it: the Pope’s words of warning find deaf ears, the rules of canon law are being concealed or even violated. We think that the Churches of Central Europe are also obliged to examine their conscience, to try to immerse in the liturgical spirituality proposed by the Holy Father and to ensure that bishops, priests and the faithful become more aware of the tasks they are facing.

 

A good means to increase such attentiveness are the scholarly gatherings held all over the world, always accompanied by the celebration of the holy liturgy in the worthiest way under the given conditions. Considering all this, the St Augustine Liturgical Atelier of Hungary turns with love in Christ to all catholic priests and lay people in Hungary, Central Europe or anywhere in the world who are deeply concerned about the liturgy and the aspirations of the Holy Father, asking them to convene to a meeting which gives occasion to learn these efforts more thoroughly, to confirm mutual intellectual and spiritual contact and to pray together for the noble task of instaurare omnia in Christo.

 

In this sense we ask you to read carefully the following programme, to support the gathering with your presence and to do everything, beyond your own application, to make it known in your local church environment. In order to achieve this, we beg you to make use of the channels of personal private interaction as well as the available tools of social communication, especially written and electronic media, meetings of the ecclesial communities, spiritual exercises or similar events.

 

 

THE PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME OF THE CONFERENCE

 
(The venues will be indicated in the definitive program to be sent to the participants)

 

 

 

21st August, Thursday
 

17.00—17.45:

Solemn Vespers, Co-Cathedral Basilica of St Stephen, celebrated by

His Eminence László Card. Paskai

Archbishop emeritus of Esztergom-Budapest
The chant is lead by the Schola of the Co-Cathedral Basilica
  
18.30—19.00:

Opening ceremony

Hotel Benczúr (Benczúr utca 35)

 
  Chair: JÓZSEF TÖRÖK Péter Pázmány Catholic University, Faculty of Theology

 

Greetings of His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI conveyed by

His Excellency Archbishop JULIUSZ JANUSZ, Apostolic Nuncio to Hungary

 

Greetings from the Patron of the Conference,

SZILVESZTER E. VIZI, Former President of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

 

Opening address by His Eminence LÁSZLÓ Card. PASKAI, Archbishop Emeritus of Esztergom-Budapest

 

 
19.00—20.00: Keynote Lecture [Chair: József Török]
 Alcuin Reid:   The liturgical reform of Pope Benedict XVI
 
20.00—21.30: Reception
 

 

 

22nd August, Friday
 

08.30—10.00:

Pontifical Mass in the Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite

(Co-Cathedral Basilica of St Stephen), celebrated by

His Excellency Nándor Bosák, Bishop of Debrecen-Nyíregyháza

Chairman of the Liturgy Committee of the Hungarian Catholic Bishops’ Conference

The chant is lead by the Schola Cantorum Budapestinensis

 

   

10.00—13.00: Papers session I

Music Academy (Ferenc Liszt Music University),

Concert Hall of the Old Building (Vörösmarty utca 35)

 

[Chair: Laurence P. Hemming]
 

Robert A. Skeris:   Theology of worship and of its music:

                                From Joseph Ratzinger to John Paul II to Benedict XVI
 

Thomas M. Kocik:   The “reform of the reform” in broad perspective:

                                  Re-engaging the living tradition 

 

[coffee break]

 R. Michael Schmitz ICRSS:  Culture and detail: The mystery of liturgical life
 

Zoltán Rihmer:  Law and liturgy: The perils and prospects of a difficult relationship
 

13.00—15.00:

Lunch break
 

15.00—18.30:

Round Table: Efforts and experiences in renewing the liturgical life

Music Academy (Ferenc Liszt Music University),

Concert Hall of the Old Building (Vörösmarty utca 35)

 

Moderator:    ERVIN J. Alácsi

Participants:  Sven Conrad FSSP  (Priestly Fraternity of St Peter, Bettbrunn)

                    Dennis KoliŃski SJC  (Canons Regular of St John Cantius, Chicago)

                    Mindaugas Kubilius  („Ad Fontes”, Vilnius)

                    R. Michael Schmitz ICRSS  (Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest, Chicago)

                    Guillaume de Tanoüarn IBP  (Institut du Bon Pasteur, Paris)

                    Shawn Tribe  (New Liturgical Movement, Toronto)
                    Ullmann  Péter Ágoston OPraem  (St Augustine Liturgical Atelier, Gödöllő)
 

19.30—20.15:

Children’s Vespers, Krisztinaváros Parish Church of St Mary of the Snows,

celebrated by Fr. József Török, Professor of Péter Pázmány Catholic University

The chant is lead by children’s scholas from Budapest and Gödöllő
 

    

 

23rd August, Saturday

 

08.30—09.30:

Chant Mass in the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite (parish use),

Inner City Parish Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary,

celebrated by Fr. Ervin Kovács, Capitulum Laicorum S. Michaelis Archangeli, Budapest

The chant is lead by children’s scholas from Budapest and Gödöllő

 

10.00—13.00: Papers session II

Music Academy (Ferenc Liszt Music University),

Concert Hall of the Old Building (Vörösmarty utca 35)

 

[Chair: Robert A. Skeris]

 

Lauren Pristas:   Septuagesima and the post-Vatican II liturgical reform

 

Laurence P. Hemming:  “I saw the New Jerusalem”: On time in the Sacred Liturgy

 

[coffee break]

 

Miklós István Földváry:   The variants of the Roman rite: Their legitimacy and revival

 

Sven Conrad FSSP:   Die innere Logik eines Ritus als Maßstab liturgischer Entwicklung

 

13.00—15.00:

Lunch break

 

15.00—16.30: Papers session III

Music Academy (Ferenc Liszt Music University),

Concert Hall of the Old Building (Vörösmarty utca 35)

 

[Chair: Lauren Pristas]

 

Uwe Michael Lang:   Once again: Orientation in liturgical prayer and the sacrificial

                                     character of Mass

 

Hel mut Hoping:   Danksagende Anbetung. Die heilige Liturgie und die Einheit der römischen Messe

 

László Dobszay:   The perspectives of an organic developmen

 

16.30—22.00:

Excursion to Szentendre (visit to a Serbian Orthodox bdenie [all-night vigil],

                                        boat trip back to Budapest)

  

 

 

24th August, Sunday

 

10.00—11.30:

Pontifical Solemn High Mass in the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite,

Terézváros Parish Church of St Teresa of Avila

celebrated by His Excellency Archbishop Edmond FarhaT, Apostolic Nuncio to Austria

Chant: Schola Hungarica and the

Church Music Department of the Liszt Ferenc Music University

 
11.30—12.00:

Closing ceremony,  

Terézváros Parish Church of St Teresa of Avila,

 

Closing address by His Excellency Archbishop Edmond Farhat,

Apostolic Nuncio to Austria

 

TE DEUM

 
   

 

 

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Registration Fee: 40 Euro

 

is to be paid to the following bank account of the St. Augustine Atelier:

 

Owner of account:            Kereszteny Ertelmisegiek Szovetsege

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HOTEL RESERVATION

 

Details of possible accommodation at different prices are available at the following agency:

 

Nagy Peter sales manager

Hotel Benczúr, H-1068 Budapest, Benczúr u. 35.

Tel.: +36 1-479-5665 or +36 1-479-5650

Fax: +36 1-342-1558

E-mail: sales@hotelbenczur.hu

Internet: www.hotelbenczur.hu

 

 

 

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the necessary reservations for the conference venues in a
Budapest overwhelmed by tourists in the period, we kindly ask you to

 

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