Published: May 11, 2011
“English, Spanish and Latin”
Oceanside parish plans free workshop by noted liturgical expert on “Singing the New Roman Missal”
A daylong free workshop, “Singing the New Roman Missal,” is scheduled for June 11 at Saint Margaret Parish in Oceanside.
The 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. workshop will be led by Benedictine Fr. Samuel Weber, founder and director of the Institute for Sacred Music of the Archdiocese of Saint Louis.
“The workshop will include: Singing the new Roman Missal in English, Spanish and Latin,” said an announcement of the event provided to California Catholic Daily by St. Margaret’s pastor, Fr. Cávana Wallace.
According to the announcement, the workshop will also include: “The role of the choir, schola and cantor. Psalm tones. Simple refrains. Antiphons. Polyphonic settings for choirs. Settings for the Common of the Mass. A simple Mass for children. Cantilation of the celebrant’s parts. Introduction to the liturgical books: Graduale Romanum, Graduale Simplex, The Saint Louis Gradual for the new translation.”
“Because of our location [in northern San Diego County], we are extending the invitation to the neighboring dioceses,” said Fr. Wallace in his email message.
“Father Weber has been giving workshops and presentations around the county and will be staying in Oceanside for the month of June while finishing work on the new texts,” said Fr. Wallace. “He has graciously accepted the invitation to facilitate a one-day workshop/presentation while here.”
There is no charge for the workshop, but Fr. Wallace is asking that those interested in participating register in advance so the parish can plan appropriately. For more information or to reserve a space, call (760) 941-5560. The parish is located at 4300 Oceanside Blvd. in Oceanside.
Fr. Weber is a well-known and distinguished expert on sacred music. According to father’s curriculum vitae, his four-volume work, The Monastic Office of Saint Bernard Abbey, appeared in 2007. He has served as an associate editor of the American Benedictine Review. Fr. Weber is a contributor to a variety of periodicals and journals including Cistercian Studies, Antiphon, and Liturgy and Worship, as well as The New Dictionary of Catholic Spirituality, Hymnal for the Hours, and The Mundelein Psalter.
Fr. Weber has served as a parochial vicar and pastor of a parish, as well as convent, hospital, and school chaplain. He frequently gives retreats and conferences on topics relating to liturgy, spiritual formation, sacred music and Gregorian Chant, ecumenism, and marriage and family living, according to his CV. While serving as an associate professor of Early Christianity and Spiritual Formation at Wake Forest University Divinity School, Fr. Weber offered one of the first Traditional Latin Masses since the institution of the Novus Ordo in the Diocese of Charlotte, N.C., at Wake Forest’s Davis Chapel.
Fr. Weber professed vows as a Benedictine monk in 1969, and was ordained a Roman Catholic priest in 1996.
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