Category: Announcements
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The Beatitudes: The Fall Issue of The Yale ISM Review, Now Live
What does it mean to be blessed? The fall issue of The Yale ISM Review, on the theme of the Beatitudes, explores some answers.
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Robert Taft SJ (1932-2018): The Pray Tell Obituary
Robert Taft was before anything else a good priest and a faithful and faith-filled Jesuit.
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GIA to Host Fall Institute October 11-13, 2018
GIA Publications will host a Fall Institute October 11-13, 2018 on Chicago’s Michigan Avenue. Gathering leaders in music, worship, education, and formation, the Institute will offer an assortment of skill building and enrichment workshops, plenum addresses, ecumenical prayer opportunities, and choral reading sessions. Session topics include a wide range of programming (rehearsal techniques, conducting, pastoral music, leadership,…
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Notre Dame Folk Choir Shares New Hymn in Response to Natural Disasters
The University of Notre Dame Folk Choir, under the direction of J.J. Wright and Karen Schneider Kirner, released a new hymn for praying the realities of recent natural disasters. The full score of “God Hushes Storms to Silence” by Karen Schneider Kirner and John T. Kyler is available for free download so that communities everywhere…
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Vatican Conference for Composers
This gathering will be significantly different from the previous music conference.
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Young New Bishop Announced for Austria
A new diocesan administrator of Austria and Hungary has recently been announced: It is Bishop Antony Sevryuk, who will turn 34 in October 2018. His episcopal ordination took place in October 2015, some days after his 31st birthday. Before this sounds too strange to you: We are not talking about the Roman Catholic Church, but…
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RIP Raymond Glover, Hymnal 1982 editor
As Episcopal News Service reports, church musician Raymond Glover, 89, general editor of The Hymnal 1982, died Dec. 15 in Alexandria, Virginia, and will be buried today at Virginia Theological Seminary following a funeral in the seminary chapel this morning. Glover began his musical life as a young chorister at St. Paul’s Cathedral in Buffalo.…
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CORRECTION: Female Deacons in Jerusalem Patriarchate
Alexander Radej, Managing Director and Editorial Manager of Orthodoxia-News, sent the following notice to Pray Tell. We would like to inform you that there has been a mistake on the subject of “Female deacons in the Jerusalem Patriarchate” from our source. Therefore, it was not the Jerusalem Patriarchate, which introduced the female deacons but the Patriarchate of…
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National Catholic Reporter to Discontinue Reader Comments
The reasons are financial