Celebrating the Word.

This is the theme of this year’s Liturgy School which begins tomorrow, Monday, August 6 at St Joseph’s Convent, St Joseph. Some 150 participants, coming from different parishes across the country, as well as from Barbados, St Vincent Guyana and Grenada are expected to attend.

Contrary to last weekend’s front page story, St Lucia Archbishop-Elect Robert Rivas will not be attending Liturgy School in Trinidad but in St Lucia. That country’s School of Liturgy takes place from August 7-11 at the Pastoral Centre, Marisule. 

This year’s Liturgy School will be held for the first time at St Joseph’s Convent, St Joseph. Live-in participants will be housed partly on the Mount – at the Regional Seminary and the Retreat House – and at the Catholic Bible Institute, Caroni. All applicants to the School have been accepted.

Lecturers include Msgr Michael de Verteuil, rector of the seminary and chairman of the Archdiocesan Liturgical Commission – “The Word of God in the Liturgy”; Dr Everard Johnston, lecturer in Bible at the Regional Seminary – “Interpreting the Word”; and Linda Wyke, former director of catechetics – “Lectio Divina”. Well known author Earl Lovelace will speak on Spirituality in his writings and Rose-Ann Walker, lecturer in the Department of Language and Linguistics at UWI will speak on “Reading the Word in Caribbean Literature”.

Given the theme of this year’s School, a new workshop on Lectio Divina has been introduced and participants in the workshop Formation of Lay Ministers/Lectors will get a deeper insight into proclaiming the Word.

The daily sessions are expected to end earlier than in the past, with each day’s evening liturgy beginning at 5.00 p.m.