Diocesan Learning Event: Liturgy and Music

The Commission on Liturgy and Music is happy to invite you to a Diocesan Learning Event focused on supporting how we plan and carry out the worship life of the Church.

We’ll gather for a plenary session together and then break into workshops focused on different topics within this theme of liturgy and music. All are welcome.

Workshop information and registration will be available in early January.

Keynote Speaker: The Rev. Canon Lizette Larson-Miller, PhD

We are excited to welcome the Rev. Canon Lizette Larson-Miller, PhD, to the Diocese of Newark for our Learning Event! She will be joining us on February 7 to offer an opening talk on our topic of liturgy and music in the parish church.

Larson-Miller is currently Professor of Liturgy and Sacramental Theology at Bexley Seabury Seminary in Chicago, while serving as canon precentor for the Anglican Diocese of Huron (Ontario, Canada). She has just completed a term as interim priest for the Episcopal parish of St. Mark’s (Berkeley) and continues to serve as a parish priest.

Her first degrees were in music, followed by an MA in liturgical studies (St. John’s, Collegeville), and a PhD in liturgical history and sacramental theology (GTU, Berkeley). She is the author of four books and numerous articles, including Sacramentality Renewed (2016), and has been president of both Societas Liturgica and the International Anglican Liturgical Consultation (a network of the Anglican Communion). She is a frequent presenter on liturgy and sacramental theology and ecumenical issues in a variety of settings, including the address in January (2024) in Seattle when she received the Berakah award at the North American Academy of Liturgy, and a presentation this past July at the biennial Societas Liturgica Congress. She also addressed the Seminar on Lutheran Liturgy in August (in Minneapolis).

Her particular academic interests center around the rites with the sick, the dying, and the dead, as well as developments in sacramental theology. She is currently working on a new book on “Sacramentality Extended” exploring the sacramentality of popular religiosity and the ongoing relationships between official liturgy and those rituals of expression and formation.

“Fun” (in addition to sacramentality) includes traveling, swimming, and singing in a community chorus!