Sacra Liturgia UK Website Launched

Keynote speaker: Robert Cardinal Sarah

The new website of Sacra Liturgia UK is now live and gives further details of the 5-8 July 2016 London conference. The titles of all presentations are now published as are details of liturgical celebrations and preachers. Some suggestions for accommodation are also available. 

The conference is open to all who are interested in the Sacred Liturgy. Delegate fees will be announced when registrations open in January 2016. For more information visit the site here.

Liturgical and musical celebrations at Sacra Liturgia UK 2016

We are happy to announce the following details of the liturgical and musical celebrations that will form part of Sacra Liturgia UK 2016, London, 5-8 July 2016.

Tuesday, 5th July
16h30: Solemn Vespers (Breviarium Romanum 1961)
St Anthony Maria Zaccaria (III cl.)
The Oratory Church, London SW7 2RP
Celebrant: Bishop Dominique Rey, Bishop of Fréjus-Toulon
Music: Oratory Choir, directed by Patrick Russill

Tuesday, 5th July
19h00: Concert of Sacred Music with the London Oratory School Schola Cantorum, directed by Charles Cole
Holy Trinity Church, Prince Consort Road, London SW7 2BA

Wednesday, 6th July
19h00: Solemn Pontifical Mass (Missale Romanum 2002)
Votive Mass of Saints Peter & Paul
The Oratory Church, London SW7 2RP
Celebrant & Preacher: Robert Cardinal Sarah, Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and Discipline of the Sacraments.
Music: London Oratory School Schola Cantorum, directed by Charles Cole

Thursday, 7th July
19h00: Solemn Pontifical Mass (Missale Romanum 1962)
Votive Mass of Our Lord Jesus Christ the Eternal High Priest
The Oratory Church, London SW7 2RP
Celebrant & Preacher: Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, Archbishop of San Francisco
Music: Oratory Choir, directed by Patrick Russill

Friday, 8th July
Evensong (Ordinariate Use)
Feria
Church of Our Lady of the Assumption & St Gregory, Warwick Street, London W1B 5LZ
Celebrant: Mgr Keith Newton, Ordinary of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham.

All liturgical celebrations will be open to the public. Seating will be reserved for conference delegates.

Conference delegates will receive a ticket for admission to the Concert of Sacred Music; other tickets may be available for the public space permitting.

Preliminary details for Sacra Liturgia UK 5-8 July 2016

The Blessed Sacrament Procession
concluding Sacra Liturgia USA, 4 June 2015
Photo courtesy of Arrys Ortanez 

Planning for Sacra Liturgia UK, 5-8 July 2016, at Imperial College, London, is well advanced. We are pleased to announce the participation of the following speakers in addition to His Eminence, Robert Cardinal Sarah, Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments:

Dr Stephen Bullivant

Msgr Andrew Burnham

Fr Michael Cullinan

Dr Jennifer Donelson

Professor David Fagerberg

Professor Joris Geldof

Bishop Alan Hopes

Professor Helmut Hoping

Dr Clare Hornsby

Fr Uwe Michael Lang, Cong.Orat.

Dom Charbel Pazat de Lys, O.S.B.

Dom Alcuin Reid

Bishop Dominique Rey

Professor Peter Stephan

Further details including speakers’ topics, a timetable including the times and locations of liturgical celebrations, details of the publication of the proceedings of Sacra Liturgia USA 2015, and other information will be released on a dedicated Sacra Liturgia UK website and Facebook page in November. Links will be posted here when they are available.

Registrations will open in January when the conference rates will be announced in the light of sponsorships and benefactions, etc.

Delegates are responsible for their own accommodation. The area of London near Imperial College has many hotels. The nearest Tube station is South Kensington. We are happy to suggest the following possibilities for nearby accommodation  to delegates who wish to make arrangements in advance: Imperial College, More House,  Allen Hall. 

Two 2016 Sacra Liturgia Events

An international Sacra Liturgia conference is to be held in central London, UK, from 5-8 July 2016. The presentations at will take place at Imperial College, a college of the University of London, in South Kensington, and the liturgical celebrations will be held at central London churches. His Eminence, Robert Cardinal Sarah, Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, has indicated his willingness to attend and speak.

A full programme of speakers and liturgical celebrations is being prepared and is due to be announced by October 2015, together with the launch of Sacra Liturgia UK’s website. Registrations are due to open early in 2016.

Sacra Liturgia is profoundly grateful to His Eminence, Vincent Cardinal Nichols, Archbishop of Westminster, for his gracious welcome of the conference to his Archdiocese.

Due to the timing of the London conference the Sacra Liturgia Summer School, to be held at the Monastère Saint-Benoît in La Garde-Freinet, Provence, France, has been scheduled for 5-17 August 2016. Further details will be announced in January 2016.

Sacra Liturgia's 2015 Summer Events

It has been a busy summer for Sacra Liturgia, with the major conference in New York City in June and the summer school in the South of France in July. 

Sacra Liturgia USA's Facebook page contains summaries of the presentations, photos and links to reports on the New York conference. A full photo album, including the beautiful Corpus Christi Procession through the streets of Manhatttan, can be viewed on Flickr here.

The proceedings of the New York conference are due for publication in the summer of 2016. Full texts will not be available before publication. Details of the publication will be posted on this site and on Facebook in due course.

A photo album of the Sacra Liturgia 2015 Summer School, held for a second time in Provence in the South of France, is available on the central Sacra Liturgia Facebook page. A selection of photos of the pontifical liturgies for the feast of St Benedict is also available here.

News of Sacra Liturgia's 2016 events will be published soon.

Future Sacra Liturgia Events

It is still possible to register for the 2015 Sacra Liturgia Summer School, to be held in La Garde-Freinet, Provence, France, from 4-19 July 2015, which will include the participation of Bishop Dominique Rey and Bishop Athanasius Schneider. Further details of the Summer School and the link to the form for full or part-time registrations can be found here. Registrants needing help with finding accommodation or any other matter should contact the Secretariat through the contact form on this page.

As announced at Sacra Liturgia USA in New York City on 1st June, the next international Sacra Liturgia Conference is planned for London, UK, from 5-8 July 2016 at a central location to be confirmed. We hope to be able to announce further details of the venue, speakers and topics on this site by September. 

As he publicised in his Message to Sacra Liturgia USA, His Eminence, Robert Cardinal Sarah, Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and Discipline of the Sacraments, hopes to be present in London for the 2016 conference. His Eminence has been invited to give the keynote address.

Arrangements are in hand for the publication of the proceedings of Sacra Liturgia USA 2015, and it is planned that this publication will be launched in London at the 2016 conference. No recordings or transcripts will be otherwise available, although excerpts from papers are available on the Sacra Liturgia USA Facebook page, and photos of the New York conference are available on Flickr.

Summer School Requiem Mass to be offered for Nick Gale

The English Catholic musician, Nick Gale, who was tragically killed in a road accident in March, was a friend to many who will be present at the Summer School in July. The solemn requiem Mass at the summer school, at 09h00 on Wednesday, July 8th, will be offered for the repose of his soul. A Vatican Radio obituary of this apostle of the Church's Sacred Liturgy and its chant may be read here. 

Requiescat in pace.