Liturgical Conference

This weekend I was able to attend a very enjoyable conference on the liturgy held up north. There were such prominent speakers as Monsignor Elliott of Australia (who had just arrived back from the Synod of Bishops in Rome), as well as Helen Hull Hitchcock (adoremus bulletin - women for faith & family, etc), and many others (including one of my favorite profs at the sem).

The conference was meant to honor the contribution of Cardinal Medina (he's the guy pictured to the left in red with the huge gold cross), who is definitely one of the "good guys" in terms of reclaiming liturgical integrity post Vatican II.

The conference had a nice balance between talks and free-time, and provided the best possible thing a conference can offer, that is, the wine and cheese party at the end of each night where you get to hob-nob with the speakers. There was an awesome pastor (born and raised in Ireland) of a parish in Texas that myself and a couple other fellows caroused with until the wee hours of the morn.

Conferences are awesome.