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Diocesan Learning Event: Liturgy and Music

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Saturday, February 7, 2026

8:45 am - 1:30 pm

About

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.

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

The Rev. Canon Lizette Larson-Miller, PhDWe 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!

Schedule:

  • 8:45 Check-in
  • 9:00 Welcome and introductions
  • 9:10 Morning Prayer
  • 9:30 Keynote speaker
  • 10:20 Break
  • 10:30 Workshop session 1
  • 11:20 Break
  • 11:30 Workshop session 2
  • 12:20 Break – Lunch
  • 1:15 Concluding session and prayer

Registration: Diocesan Learning Event 2026

Submitting this form and the $25 fee registers you for the February 7, 2026 Diocesan Learning Event (lunch is included) at The Diocesan Center, 94 E. Mt. Pleasant Avenue Livingston, NJ 07039.

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Lunch will be served. Please let us know if you have any dietary restrictions.

Select ONE Workshop in each session below.

Workshop Session 1 Descriptions

Online Resources for Worship Planning – Lots of resources are available online to assist with planning for worship in the Episcopal Church. Come and learn about some of these materials and bring your own favorite online resource to share as well!

Resources for Burial Planning – This workshop will look at resources available to help teach your church members to create their own burial instructions so that their family will have a starting point when that day finally comes. These resources can also be used to assist grieving families to plan a burial service if there are no instructions left behind. Options for the liturgy and for music will be addressed as well as general planning for end of life.

Resources for Prayers of the People: Writing and Adapting Intercessions – Come and learn ways to adapt and tailor the existing Prayers of the People for your congregation and how to invite congregation members to write new Prayers of the People for your church!

Singing the Psalms – Come and learn traditional and newer options for singing the ancient hymnal of the Bible – the Psalms! Interest and enjoyment of music is helpful, but no particular skill level needed.

Workshop Session 1 (10:30 - 11:20)*

Workshop Session 2

Workshop Session 2 Descriptions

Online Resources for Worship Planning – Lots of resources are available online to assist with planning for worship in the Episcopal Church. Come and learn about some of these materials and bring your own favorite online resource to share as well!

Resources for Burial Planning – This workshop will look at resources available to help teach your church members to create their own burial instructions so that their family will have a starting point when that day finally comes. These resources can also be used to assist grieving families to plan a burial service if there are no instructions left behind. Options for the liturgy and for music will be addressed as well as general planning for end of life.

Resources for Prayers of the People: Writing and Adapting Intercessions – Come and learn ways to adapt and tailor the existing Prayers of the People for your congregation and how to invite congregation members to write new Prayers of the People for your church!

Singing the Psalms – Come and learn traditional and newer options for singing the ancient hymnal of the Bible – the Psalms! Interest and enjoyment of music is helpful, but no particular skill level needed.

Workshop Session 2 (11:30 - 12:20)*

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Where

The Diocesan Center, Livingston

94 E. Mt. Pleasant Avenue
Livingston, NJ 07039

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