Responding to the Call: Jungmann Society Contributes to Jesuit Formation

By Bruce Morrill, SJ, June 30, 2026

Twelfth biennial congress was second half of a four-year project.

The June 22nd-27th congress of the International Jungmann Society for Jesuits and the Liturgy realized the completion of work begun at the prior congress in Cebu, Philippines (July 2024). The recent congress at the College of the Holy Cross (Worcester, Massachusetts) entailed the recording of eleven videos now moving into production.

Responding to the request of Fr. Mark Ravizza, SJ, General Counselor for Formation (Jesuit Curia, Rome), the Cebu meeting laid the groundwork for providing liturgical formation videos to the worldwide Society of Jesus. The four plenary lectures have been published as a free e-book:

  • Liturgy in Jesuit Community
  • Liturgy in the Apostolates
  • Mass in Jesuit Communities
  • The Liturgy of the Hours

Four of the videos recorded at Holy Cross were panel discussions on the topics developed at Cebu. Teams of three panelists prepared the points for discussion. Media specialist Ricardo da Silva, SJ guided each session before a live congress audience.

Filmmaker Miko Cempla conducted individual recording sessions with Jesuit liturgical scholars.

  • Introduction to the Series — Bruce Morrill, SJ
  • The Mass: Encountering Christ in People, Word, and Sacrament (four-part lecture) — Bruce Morrill, SJ
  • Liturgy in Jesuit Communities (four-part lecture) — John Baldovin, SJ
  • Inculturation of the Liturgy (four-part lecture) — Raúl Arderi Garcia, SJ
  • The Art of Celebrating (practical lecture) — Bruce Morrill, SJ
  • Homiletic Preaching (practical lecture) — Joe Weiss, SJ
  • Singing at Daily Community Mass (practical lecture) — Phillip Ganir, SJ

Over the coming months, Cempla’s HumanStories Studio will produce the videos to go on the Jesuits Global Formation website.

This is the second of three posts reporting on the 2026 biennial congress.

Bruce Morrill

Bruce Morrill, S.J., holds the Edward A. Malloy Chair in Roman Catholic Studies at Vanderbilt University, where he is Distinguished Professor of Theology in the Divinity School and Graduate Department of Religion. In addition to numerous journal articles and book chapters covering a range of topics in sacrament-liturgical theology, his books include Practical Sacramental Theology: At the Intersection of Liturgy and Ethics (2021), Divine Worship and Human Healing: Liturgical Theology at the Margins of Life and Death (2009), Encountering Christ in the Eucharist: The Paschal Mystery in People, Word, and Sacrament (2012), and Anamnesis as Dangerous Memory: Political and Liturgical Theology in Dialogue (2000). He is a past president of both the North American Academy of Liturgy and the International Jungmann Society for Jesuits and the Liturgy.

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2 responses to “Responding to the Call: Jungmann Society Contributes to Jesuit Formation”

  1. Charles Pate

    Th john for this summary of a great mtg at holy cross college. Yhx to all who worked on its unfolding. Look forward to being able to share the videos in cty.

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      Bruce Morrill

      Glad you could participate and that you were so pleased with the meeting, Charlie. I’m the author of these three blog posts, not John. But I’m certainly grateful he posted this one on his Facebook page. May your summer be pleasant. — Bruce

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