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The Advent Project

Convener

The Very Reverend William H. Petersen
49 Winding Brook Dr.
Fairport NY 14450
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www.theadventproject.org

Mission Statement

The goal of this seminar is to work ecumenically for the expansion of the season from four to seven weeks. This seminar seeks to collect, collate and/or produce and provide appropriate Advent worship and homiletical resources for clergy, church musicians, and congregations; also to author as well as solicit scholarship that will support and interpret this proposal for liturgical renewal.


2012 Academy Meeting Agenda

JILL B. COMINGS – End & Beginning: Navigating the Coincidence of All Saints’ Sunday and Advent I

SCOTT WEIDLER – Musical Resources for Years When All Saints’ Sunday and Advent I Coincide

ELISE A. FEYERHERM – Changed from Glory into Glory: Nativity, Theophany, and Eschatology in the Christian East

CAROL A. DORAN – The Key Role of Music in Introducing an Expanded Advent

LAURA E. MOORE – Dealing with the Advent Wreath, or Not Letting the Tail Wag the Dog

WILLIAM H. PETERSEN – From Dies Irae to Day of God: The Re-Imaging of Advent in Hymns from Three Periods

LISA E. DAHILL – The Advent ‘O Antiphons’ and Communal Prayer for the Earth

 

2010 Academy Meeting Agenda

  1. Presenter TBA, “The Process for Calendar Revision in the ELCA”
  2. Jill Comings, “Culmination in the Communio Sanctorum: Celebrating All Saints as Completion of the Liturgical Year”
  3. Audrey Doetzel, “Recent Developments in the Theology and Practice of Advent”
  4. Laura Moore, “Setting the Tone: The Impact of an Expanded Advent on the Cycle of the Liturgical Year.”
  5. Presentation of the APS Web Site and Discussion of Enhancements
  6. Wm H. Petersen, “Report & Evaluation of US and Canadian Parishes’ On-Site Testing of a Seven-Week Advent Season in 2009”

2009 Academy Meeting Agenda

  1. The Rev’d Canon Robert Brooks: “The Themes of Justice, Peace, and the Integrity of Creation in an Expanded Advent Season”
  2. Dr. Carol A. Doran: “Discovering Advent Music outside the Advent Section of Hymnals”
  3. Wm. H. Petersen: “Report and Evaluation of Seminary On-Site Testing of a Seven-Week Advent Season in 2008”

2008 Academy Meeting Agenda

William Petersen, "Visions for a Renewed Advent"

and others, tba

Papers

A list of online papers developed by members from this seminar will appear here.