Help shape the June 21, 2021 – Monday Retreat
Led by Fr. (Jan) Michael Joncas

Ranking the Topics

The 10th Anniversary June AUSCP Assembly has the focused theme: “Where do we go from here?” Fr. Michael Joncas will begin Assembly gathering with a morning and afternoon of retreat on Monday, June 21st. Fr. Joncas will incorporate music within his retreat presentations. He has titled the retreat: Living in Apocalyptic Times. He asks for your help in refining the retreat’s message by ranking the four areas below. Place a 1 in the blank for the MOST IMPORTANT, 2 for the next important, etc.

The 2021 Assembly promises to be a positive experience for those attending. We hope you will be present for our 10th Anniversary Assembly in Minneapolis, but even if you are unable, we are interested in your survey response. Please take 5 minutes to rank the four options and use the survey’s “reply” option. Thank you.

Fr. Kevin Clinton—Leadership Team Member

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* 1. Please read all four options, then click on the arrows to place a 1 in the blank for the MOST IMPORTANT, 2 for the next in importance, etc, until you have ranked all four.

_____Exploring the need for liturgical adaptation. Prior to the Council of Trent (1543) there existed for 950 years an immense liturgical diversity. Liturgy was shaped by local liturgical cultures and practices. Much of what we liturgically currently use comes from the Council of Trent and the printing press homogenizing liturgical expression. A reading of the 21st century “signs of the times” calls us to an “overhaul” of liturgical practices so that “liturgy” becomes the “work of the people”. Using the foundations of Tradition to inform and develop ritual and language, 21st century liturgy needs to speak to 21st people. We need a significant liturgical reform.

______Exploring the global change in how authority is expressed. The “ancient regimes” are collapsing.
o    Beginning with:

·        the rise of the “American experiment” in 1776,

·        the 1789 “French Revolution”, and

·        Enlightenment

o   And continuing recent in history

·        WWI & II struggles with autocratic regimes

·        Vatican II awakens the church to a “catholic” global life

·        the implosion of “Trumpism” fails to “make American great again”

The collapse of how previous authority structures operate has been deteriorating for over 2 centuries. What will replace it is evolving—but we won’t go back.

The collapse of the “ancient regime” is also being expressed in ordained ministry. There is an unraveling of clerical culture. We do not have a clear sense of how to live our vocations in the time and place we live. Is our environment like the 1st century of the Christian faith which had so little structure and immense diversity—yet the will of the Spirit won out?

_____Exploring changes in human consciousness. A “sea-change” is happening globally in human consciousness. In centuries previous to our own time, the consciousness of human beings was formed by membership cultural groups that individuals lived in, i.e., a monarchy, a religion, a nation, an assigned and learned cultural role. [“I am a Catholic! I am a husband! I am an American! I am black or white! Etc.] Now with immense and instant exchange of global information, a sea-change is happening. Now every human being needs to sort out who they are in the immense sea of information coming at him or her from the four corners of the earth and distant galaxies as well. How does our religious tradition assist people in establishing “roots” and a healthy identity while at the same time support their having wings to navigate the global environment people find themselves in?

_____Exploring how the AUSCP may use its voice to call for the need to “listen & dialogue” at all levels of church life—synodality.

o   What present structures for mutual listening and dialogue are working in parish, diocese, territory, global Church?

o   What present structures present difficulties and how might they be changed?

o   Explore models from various secular sources to determine what might be of use in the on-going renewal of the Church?

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* 2. Do you plan to register for the 2021 AUSCP June Assembly in Minneapolis?

Yes

Not sure.

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* 3. Who is Fr. (Jan) Michael Joncas?

Further bio information:

Ordained in 1980 as a priest of the Archdiocese of St. Paul-Minneapolis, MN, Fr. (Jan) Michael Joncas holds degrees in English from the (then) College of St. Thomas in St. Paul, MN, and in liturgical studies from the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN. From 1987 to 1991, he was focused on graduate study in Rome where he earned a doctorate in liturgical studies from the Pontificio Istituto Liturgico of the Ateneo S. Anselmo in Rome. From 1991 he has taught in graduate programs in theology at the University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN; St. John’s University, Collegeville, MN; the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN; and the Angelicum University, Rome, Italy, among other institutions. He has served as a parochial vicar, a campus minister, and a parochial administrator (pastor). He is the author of six books and more than two hundred fifty articles and reviews in journals such as Worship, Ecclesia Orans, and Questions Liturgiques. He has composed and arranged more than 300 pieces of liturgical music. He is currently Artist in Residence and Research Fellow in Catholic Studies at the University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota.

Help shape the June 21, 2021 – Monday Retreat Led by Fr. (Jan) Michael Joncas

Ranking the Topics

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* 1. Please read all four options, then click on the arrows to place a 1 in the blank for the MOST IMPORTANT, 2 for the next in importance, etc, until you have ranked all four.

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* 2. Do you plan to register for the 2021 AUSCP June Assembly in Minneapolis?

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* 4. Further comments?

Help shape the June 21, 2021 – Monday Retreat
Led by Fr. (Jan) Michael Joncas