{"id":58976,"date":"2022-01-18T10:55:03","date_gmt":"2022-01-18T16:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=58976"},"modified":"2022-01-20T13:00:40","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T19:00:40","slug":"max-johnson-awarded-at-2022-naal-annual-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/18\/max-johnson-awarded-at-2022-naal-annual-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Max Johnson Awarded at 2022 NAAL Annual Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-58927 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_2431-205x300.jpeg\" alt=\"NAAL 2022 Berakah Address\" width=\"232\" height=\"339\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_2431-205x300.jpeg 205w, https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_2431-273x400.jpeg 273w, https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_2431-768x1125.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_2431-1049x1536.jpeg 1049w, https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_2431-1398x2048.jpeg 1398w, https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_2431-scaled.jpeg 1748w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/>As my colleague Mark Roosien <a href=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/12\/report-from-the-2022-annual-meeting-of-naal\/\">recently reported<\/a>, at their early-January meeting the North American Academy of Liturgy (NAAL) bestowed on Maxwell E. Johnson the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.naal-liturgy.org\/about\/berekah\/\">Berakah Award<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Since 1976, NAAL has conferred the award annually on &#8220;a member of the Academy to honor distinguished contribution to the professional work of liturgy.\u201d With the pandemic having forced NAAL to cancel its 2021 Annual Meeting, Max\u2019s Berakah Award bears the unusual date of 2021-2022.<\/p>\n<p>Here I offer a photo montage, with a bit of narrative, to complement Mark\u2019s thorough, if not touching, description of the event honoring his former professor.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_58925\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-58925\" style=\"width: 320px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-58925\" src=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_2427-300x240.jpeg\" alt=\"NAAL 2022 Berakah Award\" width=\"320\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_2427-300x240.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_2427-500x400.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_2427-768x614.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_2427-1536x1229.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_2427-2048x1638.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_2427-80x64.jpeg 80w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-58925\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Gennifer Brooks, Recipient Max Johnson, Citation-Writer Melinda Quivik<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theology.nd.edu\/people\/maxwell-e-johnson\/\">Maxwell Johnson,<\/a>\u00a0professor at the University of Notre Dame and a former president of the NAAL, is a prolific scholar of the origins and development of early Christian liturgy. But the award citation, composed by Melinda Quivik (herself a former NAAL president) with calligraphy by Judy Dodds (St. Paul, MN), \u00a0bespeaks a fuller litany of qualities the Academy appreciates in him:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-58966 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Unknown-1-240x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"498\" height=\"622\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Unknown-1-240x300.jpeg 240w, https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Unknown-1-320x400.jpeg 320w, https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Unknown-1-768x960.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Unknown-1.jpeg 882w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-58926 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_2430-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"NAAL 2022 Berakah Introduction\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_2430-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_2430-400x400.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_2430-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_2430-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_2430-1536x1536.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_2430-24x24.jpeg 24w, https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_2430-48x48.jpeg 48w, https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_2430-96x96.jpeg 96w, https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_2430.jpeg 1830w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Stephanos Alexopoulos, professor of liturgy at the Catholic University of America, gave an introduction of the Berakah laureate worthy of his colleague and former professor\u2019s erudition and wit.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-58928 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_2432-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_2432-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_2432-400x400.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_2432-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_2432-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_2432-1536x1536.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_2432-24x24.jpeg 24w, https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_2432-48x48.jpeg 48w, https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_2432-96x96.jpeg 96w, https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_2432.jpeg 1959w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On those and multiple other counts, Max did not disappoint in delivering his Berakah Response. Through autobiographical narrative he provided a practical-theological history of the scholarly and ecumenical, but always in service of the prayerful and pastoral, developments in liturgical studies over the past several decades.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-58929 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/B7EE16E5-A872-42E1-AE5F-F91FD9FABF64_1_201_a-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"NAAL 2022 Berakah Banquet Scene\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/B7EE16E5-A872-42E1-AE5F-F91FD9FABF64_1_201_a-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/B7EE16E5-A872-42E1-AE5F-F91FD9FABF64_1_201_a-600x360.jpg 600w, https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/B7EE16E5-A872-42E1-AE5F-F91FD9FABF64_1_201_a-768x461.jpg 768w, https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/B7EE16E5-A872-42E1-AE5F-F91FD9FABF64_1_201_a-1536x922.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/B7EE16E5-A872-42E1-AE5F-F91FD9FABF64_1_201_a-2048x1229.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/B7EE16E5-A872-42E1-AE5F-F91FD9FABF64_1_201_a-750x450.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The understandably smaller than usual number of NAAL members and visitors at this year\u2019s Annual Meeting in Kansas City spread out at tables across the banquet hall. While COVID precautions prevented the planned entertainment by Max\u2019s blues band, the Oblates of Blues, the pleasure and joy of all in attendance was undiminished.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As my colleague Mark Roosien recently reported, at their early-January meeting the North American Academy of Liturgy (NAAL) bestowed on Maxwell E. Johnson the Berakah Award. 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