Religious Life Newsletter: Volume 9, Spring 2006, Issue 1
Events
WEEKLY ACTIVITIES
Sundays:
9am-Catholic Service
11am-Chapel Service
11:30am-Catholic Service
3:00 pm-Gospel Choir, Isaacs Auditorium
6pm-Catholic Service
6:45pm-Catholic Campus Ministries
8pm-Hillel
Mondays:
9:15pm-Habitat for Humanity
9:15pm-Acts 29
10pm-LSM
Tuesdays:
10pm-Tuesday Night Watch
Wednesdays:
8pm-Handbell Choir
Thursdays:
5:30pm-Chapel Council
9pm-InterVarsity Christian Fellowship
Fridays:
Saturdays:
Alice Pope Shade Lecture
The Central American Masses – Misa Popular Salvadoreña, Misa Campesina Nicaragüense, Misa Popular Nicaragüense and Nueva Misa Mesoamericana – give lyrical and liturgical expression to the struggle of God's people for peace, justice and freedom from oppression.
The evening will include a performance of songs from these masses and commentary on the theology that informs them and which they proclaim.
Guillermo Cuéllar lives and works in San Salvador. He composed the Misa Popular Salvadoreña at the request of Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero who was martyred three days after the Gloria of the mass was presented to him. He also composed the Nueva Misa Mesoamericana for the ELCA's Libro de Liturgia y Cántico.
Rafael Malpica Padilla (Commentator), Executive Director of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America's Division for Global Mission, served as bishop of the ELCA's Caribbean Synod from 1987-1993.
Donna Peña, composer and recording artist, draws on her Mexican and Cherokee heritage to produce music that serves well the needs of multilingual worship. She has collaborated with Guillermo Cuéllar on numerous projects.
Tom Witt is a member of Bread for the Journey, a Minnesota-based group that performs music from the church in Latin America, Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, and Europe.
Bill Dexheimer Pharris, an ordained Lutheran pastor and musician, worked with Lutheran and Catholic churches in El Salvador during 1986-89. His translations of Latin American liturgies and hymns appear in numerous books of worship.
