The SCP Second Annual Conference Schedule


The conference begins on Wednesday November 10th at 4:00-5:30 with registration and social hour followed by Solemn Evensong with Benediction.

Wednesday 11/10

  4:00-5:30         Registration and Social Hour 
  5:30-7:00         Solemn Evensong and Benediction 
  7:30-8:30         Light Dinner in Parish Hall, introduction and comments
                                     by 
Fr David Cobb, Convener of the SCP North America
  9:00-10:00      Directed Conversations 
  10:00                 Choral Compline 

Thursday  11/11

8:00                       Morning Prayer
9:00                       Presentation #1 - Dr Ronald Young
11:00                     Solemn High Mass w/ new chapter/member induction            
1:00                       Lunch - Union League
3:30                       Presentation #2 - Mtr Julia Gatta
5:30                       Evening Prayer
6:30                       Dinner & Conversation
7:30                       Society Business Meeting
9:00                       Sung Compline


Friday  11/12

8:00                       Morning Prayer
9:00                       Presentation #3 - Dr Derek Olsen
11:00                     Solemn High Mass - Rite II at 1923 Altar w/ first thurible used in American church
1:00                        Lunch
3:00                       Presentation #4 - Mtr Lizette Larson-Miller
5:30                       Evening Prayer
6:30                       Dinner & Conversation and Official Good-Bye
9:00                       Sung Compline


Saturday  11/13

8:00                       Morning Prayer and Low Mass


Reflecting on feedback from last year's conference, we added an extra day in order to allow for more social time and reflection as well as opportunities to see the city.


Conference Presentation Update:

Mtr Julia Gatta, the professor of Pastoral Theology at Sewanee, will be presenting on themes from her book, "The Nearness of God: Parish Ministry as Spiritual Practice." 

Dr Ronald Young will be presenting on aspects of Anglo-Catholic urban witness in a presentation entitled, "Presence not Charity: Anglo-Catholic Urban Ministry in New York".

 
Dr Derek Olsen, author of the Haligweorc blog, will be presenting on issues surrounding Communion without Baptism.  Some of his fine work on the subject may be found here.

Mtr Lizette Larson-Miller, the Professor of Liturgical Leadership and the Dean of the Chapel at the Church Divinity School of the Pacific, will present on the Sacrament of Anointing, drawing in part from her book,"The Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick."


Conference Update:

Our Friday Mass will be celebrated on an altar constructed for "The First Catholic Congress held in New Haven, Conn. Nov. 3rd, 4th, and 5th A.D. 1925".  We will also be using the first thurible used in the Episcopal Church in the United States.


 
 
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