Annual Meeting - January 5, 2025

The Catholic Academy of Liturgy will meet on SUNday, January 5, 2025 from 9:30am-12:30pm at Valparaiso University.

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Meeting Schedule

8:30am Morning Mass at St. Teresa of Avila Student Center

9:30am Continental Breakfast

10:00am Morning Prayer

10:15am Presentation: What Changed in the OCIA?

10:25am Discussion of OCIA Revisions and Current Issues in Christian Initiation

11:30am Business Meeting

12:30pm Annual Meeting Concludes

Candidates for Office

Chris O’Brien is a doctoral candidate in Liturgical Studies/ Sacramental Theology at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. He will defend his dissertation, “Children and the Eucharist in the Roman Rite: History, Theology, and Ritual,” and graduate in Spring, 2025. Previously, he received an M. Div. from the University of Notre Dame. His research interests include children and liturgy, Christian initiation, Eucharist, liturgical sacramental theology, ecclesiology, and ecumenism. He has published articles in a number of liturgical and theological journals and has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in liturgical studies/ sacramental theology and theology more generally.

Dr. Anne C. McGuire recently retired from full-time parish ministry, as a parish liturgist and music director. Anne’s background includes university teaching, programming at a Shrine, as well as pastoral work at parish, campus ministry, and retreat center levels. She has given presentations, workshops, and retreats for parishes and dioceses, and addressed regional and national gatherings of liturgy and music organizations on topics related to liturgy, liturgical music, and the communion of saints. Anne has a Master’s degree from St. John’s University, Collegeville, MN, and a Ph. D. from the University of Notre Dame. She continues ministry in all of the above areas, including adjunct university teaching, parish involvement locally, participation in the Federation of Diocesan Liturgical Commissions (FDLC), and presentations and writing nationally. Anne also partners with Michael Prendergast in Sacred Liturgy Ministries, with expertise in Saints for Liturgical Ministers.

Anne has written articles on pastoral liturgy in newsletters and journals, including Pastoral Liturgy, Liturgical Ministries, Ecclesia Orans, Cantor, Catechumenate, and was a contributor to A Commentary on the General Instruction of the Roman Missal, HarperCollins Encyclopedia of Catholicism, and Intercessions for the Christian People. She wrote the texts for Keeping the Seasons 2016-2017 (LTP). Anne is passionate about liturgy as both source and summit, about the community’s participation in liturgy as paramount, a faith rooted in the paschal mystery, and the universal call to holiness. Her own journey of faith contributes to her passionate involvement with all of the arts. She lives in Omaha, Nebraska.

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About CAL

The Catholic Academy of Liturgy
is an organization of Catholic persons professionally trained in the disciplines of liturgy, music and related studies.  

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Publications

One of the principal purposes of CAL is to engage in research, publication and dialogue concerning the Christian liturgy, east and west, past and present in order to promote the principles articulated in the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy and subsequent documents, especially the principle of full conscious and active participation, and to promote leadership that embraces these principles.