{"id":10555,"date":"2011-07-18T06:05:58","date_gmt":"2011-07-18T11:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=10555"},"modified":"2011-07-22T15:15:42","modified_gmt":"2011-07-22T20:15:42","slug":"npm-and-hymn-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2011\/07\/18\/npm-and-hymn-society\/","title":{"rendered":"NPM and Hymn Society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Great week for music: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npm.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">National Association of Pastoral Musicians<\/a> is meeting in Louisville &#8211; I&#8217;m at it presenting on chant in Latin and English &#8211; and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehymnsociety.org\/conference.html\" target=\"_blank\">Hymn Society\u00a0in the United States and Canada<\/a> is meeting in Colorado Springs. <em>Pray Tell<\/em>\u00a0 is covering both.<\/p>\n<p>NPM convention will\u00a0bring together\u00a0some 3,000 people &#8211; exact number coming. I guess there&#8217;s some change or other coming in the liturgy that has everyone wanting to know more.<\/p>\n<p>NPM was founded in 1976 by Fr. Virgil Funk. It has 7,584 members &#8211; up from last year, but down from 8,459 five years ago. Youth membership is up compared to five years ago &#8211; 63 to 78, and so is retired\/senior, even more so &#8211; 144 to 322.<\/p>\n<p>Already several NPMers have come up to me to ask if I&#8217;m Anthony Ruff, and then said, &#8220;Thank you.&#8221; Hmm, what&#8217;s that <a href=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2011\/02\/04\/an-open-letter-from-anthony-ruff-osb\/\" target=\"_blank\">about<\/a>? Anything to do with some change or other in the liturgy?<\/p>\n<p>My prediction: the mood at NPM this year will be positive and joyful, even though most of this group\u00a0probably don&#8217;t exactly support the coming change. These are people who will make the best of it and\u00a0give their all\u00a0to serve the Church and work for sung liturgy. I expect to be inspired and encouraged at NPM. The text for the canticle of morning prayer today (Week 4, Isaiah 42) gives a good sign: <em>Cantate Domino canticum novum&#8230; Exsultent desertum et civitates&#8230; Iubilent habitatores Petr\u00e6.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Seems like everyone on the plane ride here and everyone at the airport was heading to NPM. This is a first: At luggage claim I walked away with someone else&#8217;s luggage, exactly identical to mine. Fortunately, the composer of &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.giamusic.com\/bios\/rob-glover\" target=\"_blank\">Mass of Plenty<\/a>&#8221; noticed, came running after me as I boarded my airport shuttle, and we made the switch. Rob, you missed your chance to have in your luggage everything you need for the Office in Latin chant.<\/p>\n<p>awr<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great week for music: National Association of Pastoral Musicians in Louisville and Hymn Society in Colorado Springs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[155,147],"class_list":["post-10555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conferences-workshops-meetings","tag-hymn-society","tag-npm"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>NPM and Hymn Society - Home<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2011\/07\/18\/npm-and-hymn-society\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"NPM and Hymn Society - Home\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Great week for music: National Association of Pastoral Musicians in Louisville and Hymn Society in Colorado Springs.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2011\/07\/18\/npm-and-hymn-society\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Home\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2011-07-18T11:05:58+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2011-07-22T20:15:42+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/pt.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"411\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"90\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Anthony Ruff, OSB\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Anthony Ruff, OSB\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/index.php\\\/2011\\\/07\\\/18\\\/npm-and-hymn-society\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/index.php\\\/2011\\\/07\\\/18\\\/npm-and-hymn-society\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Anthony Ruff, OSB\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/1f253be22c50796444dc3d93f75cb50a\"},\"headline\":\"NPM and Hymn Society\",\"datePublished\":\"2011-07-18T11:05:58+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2011-07-22T20:15:42+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/index.php\\\/2011\\\/07\\\/18\\\/npm-and-hymn-society\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":322,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/#organization\"},\"keywords\":[\"Hymn Society\",\"National Association of Pastoral Musicians (NPM)\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Conferences \\\/ Workshops \\\/ Meetings\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/index.php\\\/2011\\\/07\\\/18\\\/npm-and-hymn-society\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/index.php\\\/2011\\\/07\\\/18\\\/npm-and-hymn-society\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/index.php\\\/2011\\\/07\\\/18\\\/npm-and-hymn-society\\\/\",\"name\":\"NPM and Hymn Society - Home\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2011-07-18T11:05:58+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2011-07-22T20:15:42+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/index.php\\\/2011\\\/07\\\/18\\\/npm-and-hymn-society\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/index.php\\\/2011\\\/07\\\/18\\\/npm-and-hymn-society\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/index.php\\\/2011\\\/07\\\/18\\\/npm-and-hymn-society\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"NPM and Hymn Society\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/\",\"name\":\"Home\",\"description\":\"Worship, Wit &amp; Wisdom\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Home\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2023\\\/09\\\/cropped-BlogHeaderFinal2.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2023\\\/09\\\/cropped-BlogHeaderFinal2.jpg\",\"width\":1340,\"height\":209,\"caption\":\"Home\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/1f253be22c50796444dc3d93f75cb50a\",\"name\":\"Anthony Ruff, OSB\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2020\\\/09\\\/Resize-Anthony-Ruff-1-96x96.jpg\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2020\\\/09\\\/Resize-Anthony-Ruff-1-96x96.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2020\\\/09\\\/Resize-Anthony-Ruff-1-96x96.jpg\",\"caption\":\"Anthony Ruff, OSB\"},\"description\":\"Fr. Anthony Ruff, OSB, is a monk of St. John's Abbey. He teaches liturgy, liturgical music, and Gregorian chant at St. John's University School of Theology-Seminary. He is widely published and frequently presents across the country on liturgy and music. He is the author of Sacred Music and Liturgical Reform: Treasures and Transformations, and of Responsorial Psalms for Weekday Mass: Advent, Christmas, Lent, Easter. He does priestly ministry at the neighboring community of Benedictine sisters in St. Joseph.\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/praytellblog.com\\\/index.php\\\/author\\\/aruff\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"NPM and Hymn Society - Home","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2011\/07\/18\/npm-and-hymn-society\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"NPM and Hymn Society - Home","og_description":"Great week for music: National Association of Pastoral Musicians in Louisville and Hymn Society in Colorado Springs.","og_url":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2011\/07\/18\/npm-and-hymn-society\/","og_site_name":"Home","article_published_time":"2011-07-18T11:05:58+00:00","article_modified_time":"2011-07-22T20:15:42+00:00","og_image":[{"width":411,"height":90,"url":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/pt.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Anthony Ruff, OSB","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Anthony Ruff, OSB","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2011\/07\/18\/npm-and-hymn-society\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2011\/07\/18\/npm-and-hymn-society\/"},"author":{"name":"Anthony Ruff, OSB","@id":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/#\/schema\/person\/1f253be22c50796444dc3d93f75cb50a"},"headline":"NPM and Hymn Society","datePublished":"2011-07-18T11:05:58+00:00","dateModified":"2011-07-22T20:15:42+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2011\/07\/18\/npm-and-hymn-society\/"},"wordCount":322,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/#organization"},"keywords":["Hymn Society","National Association of Pastoral Musicians (NPM)"],"articleSection":["Conferences \/ Workshops \/ Meetings"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2011\/07\/18\/npm-and-hymn-society\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2011\/07\/18\/npm-and-hymn-society\/","url":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2011\/07\/18\/npm-and-hymn-society\/","name":"NPM and Hymn Society - Home","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/#website"},"datePublished":"2011-07-18T11:05:58+00:00","dateModified":"2011-07-22T20:15:42+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2011\/07\/18\/npm-and-hymn-society\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2011\/07\/18\/npm-and-hymn-society\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2011\/07\/18\/npm-and-hymn-society\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"NPM and Hymn Society"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/","name":"Home","description":"Worship, Wit &amp; Wisdom","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/#organization","name":"Home","url":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/cropped-BlogHeaderFinal2.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/cropped-BlogHeaderFinal2.jpg","width":1340,"height":209,"caption":"Home"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/#\/schema\/person\/1f253be22c50796444dc3d93f75cb50a","name":"Anthony Ruff, OSB","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Resize-Anthony-Ruff-1-96x96.jpg","url":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Resize-Anthony-Ruff-1-96x96.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Resize-Anthony-Ruff-1-96x96.jpg","caption":"Anthony Ruff, OSB"},"description":"Fr. Anthony Ruff, OSB, is a monk of St. John's Abbey. He teaches liturgy, liturgical music, and Gregorian chant at St. John's University School of Theology-Seminary. He is widely published and frequently presents across the country on liturgy and music. He is the author of Sacred Music and Liturgical Reform: Treasures and Transformations, and of Responsorial Psalms for Weekday Mass: Advent, Christmas, Lent, Easter. He does priestly ministry at the neighboring community of Benedictine sisters in St. Joseph.","url":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/author\/aruff\/"}]}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10555"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10558,"href":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10555\/revisions\/10558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}