Deaths and Memorials
We remember with prayers and thanksgiving the NAAL members who have died this year. Their lives have enriched our study and worship. Each is remembered in the Opening Rite of the Annual Meeting of the Academy.
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Lawrence J. Madden, a Jesuit priest and Georgetown University liturgical scholar died May 29, 2011 at his home at the Jesuit Community in Georgetown. He was 78. IFRAA just presented Fr. Madden with its Elbert M. Conover Award on May 12 during the AIA National Convention in New Orleans. He was honored for his energetic contributions to religion, art and architecture. Madden has been the Director of the Georgetown Center for Liturgy since its beginning in 1981. The Georgetown Center has been the sponsor of Form/Reform: the National Conference on Art and Environment for Catholic Worship. He has served as Director of Campus Ministry and is a member of the theological faculty at Georgetown University. He has served as an advisor to the Bishops’ Committee on the Liturgy and on the governing committee of the North American Academy of Liturgy. An author and frequent lecturer, he edited The Awakening Church: the State of the Liturgy in the U.S. Twenty-five Years after the Second Vatican Council’s Reforms(The Liturgical Press, 1991.) He served as Pastor of Holy Trinity Parish in Washington, DC from 1993 to 2000. He earned a Doctorate in Theology and a Diploma in Liturgy from the University of Trier, Germany. Fr. Madden loved to teach but he also loved to sail!
Chip Stam died Sunday evening, May 1. Chip served as the founding director of the Institute for Christian Worship at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary since 2000, where he was Professor of Church Music and Worship. From 1981-1991 he was the Director of Choral Music at the University of Notre Dame, then returned to Chapel Hill Bible Church from 1991-2000. Since 2002, Chip served as the Minister of Music & Worship at Clifton Baptist Church.
John Gallen, SJ, founder of NAAL, died Sunday, April 17, in New York City. John convened the first gathering of NAAL in Scottsdale, AZ, December 4-7, 1973 to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy. He entered the Society of Jesus in 1950 and received the Berakah award in 2000. His Berakah response was titled "The Role of the Artist in Liturgical Inculturation.” He served for a number of years as Director of the Notre Dame Center for Pastoral Liturgy.
Also on April 17, Fr. Bill Bauman died in Kansas City, where he had served in priestly ministry for over 50 years. Bill was a popular author and speaker in the area of pastoral liturgy and was an active member, friend, and supporter of the National Association of Pastoral Musicians.
George Muenich, pastor emeritus of Zion German Evangelical Lutheran Church here in Brooklyn, died suddenly on May 13 at age 71. Pastor Muenich served Zion from 1990 to June 2009, when he retired. He had been a co-founder and longtime president of the Brooklyn Heights Clergy Association. At the time of his death, Pastor Muenich and his wife, Erika, resided in Washington State.