Bob Hurd

Sing to the Lord: Exploring the New Bishops' Document on Liturgical Music
What's new? What's old? What's different? What about Gregorian chant? What about Vatican II's call for music in the vernacular? How does this document speak to our current and future practice of music ministry? Though presenting itself as a revision of Music in Catholic Worship, this new document is much more. Bob, who consulted on the writing of Sing to the Lord, addresses these questions while presenting the heart of the document and giving musical examples.
Audience: Music ministers, liturgists, priests, deacons, teachers.

Making the Lenten Journey
The Lenten season is filled with journeys: into the wilderness to face temptation, up the mountaintop to be transfigured, life-changing encounters with Jesus while he journeys to Jerusalem to die. How can we use music to help our assemblies to make these stories their own? By way of songs and reflection, Bob explores the scriptures of the season.

In Service To The WordEvery liturgy tells one story-Christ's living, dying, and rising for us. But this one paschal mystery is proclaimed and celebrated through the many stories of the readings that change from liturgy to liturgy. Music ministers (as well as presiders and readers) are storytellers because they have the task of drawing worshippers into these stories of the one great story. How can we use our music to more effectively serve the Word? How do we become bearers of the Word to others?

Wisdom In The Heart: Music As Spiritual Formation
The liturgy sows the seed of God's Word-God's Wisdom-in our hearts. Perhaps more than any other medium, music helps the seed to take root because of its power to penetrate our inmost being. Music shapes our faith and the pastoral musician forms our memory, understanding and feeling for the paschal mystery. With numerous musical examples, Bob explores this formational role of pastoral music and the questions it poses about texts, musical styles, and range of repertoire.

Many Yet One: The Blessing And Challenge Of Intercultural Liturgy
This presentation addresses the following questions: What is the theological basis for intercultural liturgies? What have we learned over the years of attempting them? How do we craft a liturgy in multiple vernaculars, so that all can participate with understanding, even as the liturgy passes back and forth between two or more languages? What bilingual and multilingual musical resources are available and how have they grown in recent years?

Encountering The Risen Lord: The Easter Season
Easter Season presents a spirituality of being church-from the earliest encounters with the risen Lord, to lessons about abiding in him and assuming our Spirit-engendered role as the body of Christ in the world. Bob will give an overview of the season's stories and scriptures as well as a musical repertoire to serve it.

Liturgy, Music And Justice
Recent papal statements have given special emphasis to the centrality of justice to our Christian faith-the intimate bond between love of God and love of neighbor. There is, in fact, a "justice dimension" at the heart of the liturgy-in both the ritual texts and the scriptures. Bob explores this justice dimension, showing how preaching, proclamation and especially music can open up this message of justice and mercy to worshippers.

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