Winter Workshop 2017: From Hosanna to Hallelujah, the Liturgy and Music of Holy Week 

2017 Winter Workshop

From Hosanna to Hallelujah,
the Liturgy and Music of Holy Week

Reverend Paul Colloton, OSFS, D.Min., keynote presenter

 Saturday, February 4, 2017
8:00 am — 3:00 pm

 The Empress Room at the Church of Saint Helena
1489 DeKalb Pike, Blue Bell

A continental breakfast, all-day coffee service and a hot buffet lunch is included!

“God's love is limitless and the church's Holy Week services offer Christians a deeper understanding of his infinite mercy. Let us allow ourselves to be enveloped by this mercy that comes to meet us. And in these days, while our gaze is fixed on the Lord's passion and death, let us welcome into our hearts the greatness of his love and, like Our Lady on (Holy) Saturday, in silence await the resurrection.”

- Pope Francis to his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square, March 23, 2016

    These great ceremonies are most truly understood as a single liturgy spread out over the entire week.  In the liturgy of Holy Week, we enter into the Paschal Mystery of Christ so as to draw from it in a special way the power of Christ's victory over sin and death. Each of the major ceremonies immerses us in an aspect of his saving sacrifice and molds us according to the pattern of the Son of God. Together, these liturgies comprise the Paschal Mystery - each one of them is essential to the salvation Christ won for us.

     The music of Holy Week is some of the most beautiful and theologically profound of the liturgical year. Join us for a seminar that will include music for the processional chants of Palm Sunday, the antiphons for the Mandatum on Holy Thursday, music for the Veneration of the Holy Cross on Good Friday and the Exsultet of the Easter Vigil. This seminar is ideal for parish musicians, cantors, music and liturgy directors, clergy (especially deacons), RCIA and religious education instructors, or anyone who wishes to have a greater understanding of the Church’s sacred music. 

Other musical highlights...

1. Changes in the Roman Missal
2. Options for musical settings
3. Appropriate choices for Holy Week liturgies
4. Available resources

A sampling of questions to be answered...

1. When does the Triduum begin and end?
2. Is the Mandatum required?
3. How many readings should be proclaimed at the Easter Vigil?

 Schedule

• 8:00 – 8:30 AM: Registration
• 8:30 – 9:00 AM: Welcome and Morning Prayer
• 9:00 – 9:50 AM: Overview of the subject
• 10:00 – 10:50 AM: Passion/Palm Sunday
• 11:00 – 11:50 AM: Holy Thursday
• 11:50AM – 12:30 PM: Lunch
• 12:30 – 1:15 PM: Good Friday
• 1:15 – 2:30 PM: Easter Vigil
• 2:30 PM: Q&A (Questions will be submitted during lunch)

Paul H. Colloton, OSFS, D.Min. is a member of the Oblates of St. Francis de Sales, and recently started working at Ohio Dominican University in Columbus, Ohio,  as Priest Chaplain and Associate Director of Campus Ministry; previously serving as Parochial Vicar for Immaculate Conception Church and St. Jude Mission Church, Elkton and North East, MD. He served as the Director of Continuing Education for the National Pastoral Musicians Association for a little over thirteen years. Fr. Colloton received his Bachelor’s Degree in Theology with a minor in Music from St. John’s University in Collegeville, Minnesota, and a Master of Divinity from Aquinas Institute of Theology in St. Louis, Missouri. He earned his Doctorate in Ministry in Word and Worship from Catholic Theological Union in Chicago. He has over 35 years experience in pastoral ministry as preacher, presider, liturgist, musician, educator, spiritual director, workshop presenter, retreat director and author.