FEBRUARY 8: CHRISTIAN WORSHIP

2:00pm Intro

2:15pm What is Christian Worship? The transcendent Son of Man. Divinization: How to discover the image of God in ourselves and co-create from the heart’s identity of the child of God? - Iwona Bednarz-Major

3:00pm Encounter Groups: Icon Contemplation and discussion

3:30pm Intro to the Liturgy of the Hours and sacred music: only lovers can sing. Contemplation and time sanctification as the foundation of praise, worship music, poetry and art.

4:15pm Practicum: Simple Chant in the Liturgy of the Hours and Eucharist

5:00pm Dinner

6:00pm Intro to Church of the Antiochene Syriac Tradition (Maronite) and liturgy ; Syriac, Arabic and Aramaic chant sung by the parish cantor

6:30pm Chanted Vespers (Evening Prayer)

7:00pm - The end