NCYC

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HOSTED  BY SAINT JOHN'S ABBEY AND UNIVERSITY
Collegeville, Minnesota
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June 10-22, 2000

Saturday, June 10 - Arrival day

6 pm: Meet under Bell Banner of Abbey Church: Opening Prayer Service with Blessing of Choir by Abbot Timothy Kelly, OSB
. Dinner
7 pm: Opening Session: Welcome, Introductions, Begin Singing
9:15 pm: Popcorn Party
10:15 pm: Closing Prayer (With Gospel of Pentecost)
11:15 pm: Lights Out
Sunday, June 11th, Pentecost Sunday
7:00 am: Rise
7:30 am: Prayer, Breakfast
8:15 am: Music Rehearsal
9:30 am: Religion Class (The Liturgy of Pentecost)
10:30 am: Pentecost Mass, Abbey Church
11:30 am: Tour of Abbey Church
12:15 am: Lunch
1:15 -3:15 pm: Music rehearsal
3:15 - 4:30 pm: Campus Walking Tour (small groups)
4:30 - 6:00 pm: Music rehearsal; Introduction to Liturgy of Evening Prayer
. Dinner
7:00 pm: Evening Prayer (Vespers) with Monks of St. John's Abbey
7:45 pm: Swimming or Gym Sports
10:00 pm: Compline
11:00 pm: Lights out
Monday, June 12
7:00 am: Rise
7:30 am: Prayer and Breakfast
8:00 - 10:15 am: Music Rehearsal
10:30 -11:15 am: Music History I  (Small Groups) Topic:  Principal Eras of Music History
11:30 - 12:30 Music Rehearsal
12:30 - 2:00 pm: Lunch and Free time
1:30 - 2:00 pm: (Rehearse with cantor for today's daily Mass)
2:00 - 3:30 pm: Music Rehearsal
3:30 - 4:00 pm: Break
4:00 - 4:45 pm: Religion I  - Topic: Liturgy
5:00 pm Mass in Emmaus Chapel with Fr. Anthony Ruff, OSB
. Dinner
6:30 pm: Recreation in Gym  (With high-schoolers of the "Youth in Theology and Ministry" camp)
8:30 - 10:00 pm: Music Rehearsal
10:00 pm: Compline
11:00 pm: Lights Out
Tuesday, June 13 - St. Anthony of Padua
7:00 am: Rise
7:30 am: Prayer and Breakfast
8:15 - 10:15 am: Music Rehearsal
10:30 -11:15 am: Music Theory I  (Small Groups)Topic: Intervals
11:30 - 12:30 Music Rehearsal
12:30 - 2:00 pm: Lunch and Break
2:00 - 4:00 pm: Music Rehearsal
4:00 - 5:00 pm: Break  (Cantors for Latin chant "Benedicta sit" rehearse with Dr. Franz Karl Prassl of Austria)
5:00 - 5:45 pm: Religion II  - Topic: Trinity
. Dinner
7:00 pm: Evening Prayer in Abbey Church With Monks and Liturgical Music Conference Participants
7:45 - 9:30 pm: Music Rehearsal
9:30 pm: Compline and Root Beer Float Social (With high-schoolers of the "Youth in Theology and Ministry" camp)
11:00 pm: Lights out
Wednesday, June 14
6:40 am:  Rise
7:05 am: Prayer and Breakfast
7:30 am: Warmup in Choral Rehearsal Room for
8:00 am: Opening Prayer Service of Liturgical Music Conference
8:30 - 10:00 am: Music Rehearsal
10:15-11:00 am: TWO OPTIONS:  Tour of the the Studio Organ and the Abbey Organ / Tour of the Crypt and Reliquary Chapel of the Abbey Church
11:15 - 12:30 Music Rehearsal - Including rehearsal of Latin chant with Dr. Prassl
12:30 -2:00 pm: Lunch and Break
2:00 - 3:00 pm: Music Rehearsal
3:20 - 4:15 pm: Music Rehearsal (Open to Conference participants)
4:45 - 5:30 pm: Religion III - Topic: Eucharist, Meal and Sacrifice, Real Presence, Adoration
5:45 pm Evening Prayer and Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament, Abbey Church - With participants in the Liturgical Music Conference
.. Dinner
7:00 - 7:50 pm: Music Rehearsal
8:00 pm: OPTIONAL:  Concert, Abbey Church - Organ Students of St. John's University; Schola Cantorum of Chicago
10:30 pm: Compline
11:00 pm: Lights Out
Thursday, June 15
7:30 am: Rise
8:00 am: Prayer and Breakfast
8:30 - 9:30 am: Music Rehearsal
9:45 - 10:45 am: Mass, Abbey Church - With participants in the Liturgical Music Conference
11:00 - 12:30 Music Rehearsal
12:30 - 1:20 pm: Lunch and Break
1:20 - 2:00 pm: Meeting with Dr. Barbara Resch, national researcher on high-schoolers' music preferences
2:00 - 3:30 pm: Music Rehearsal - in Organ Studio
3:30 - 4:15 pm: Break
4:15 - 5:20 pm: Music Rehearsal (Open to Conference participants)
5:45 pm: OPTIONAL:  Evening Prayer, Abbey Church - With participants in the Liturgical Music Conference, featuring the St. John's Boychoir and Cantabile Girls' Choir of St. Cloud, Minnesota
. Dinner
7:00 pm: Warmup for
8:00 pm: Hymnfest, Abbey Church - With Schola Cantorum, National Catholic Youth Choir, Brass, Organist Bill Chouinard, and Commentator Colleen Needles  ("Youth in Theology and Ministry" campers attending)
9:30 - 10:15 pm: Vocational Discernment: What is a Benedictine? - With Sisters of St. Benedict and Monks of St. John's Abbey
10:15 pm: Compline
11:00 pm: Lights Out
Friday, June 16
7:30 am: Rise
8:00 am: Prayer and Breakfast
8:30 - 10:30 am: Music Rehearsal - (10:00 - 10:30 am: Rehearse with cantor for today's daily Mass)
10:45 am: Mass in St. Benedict Chapel (Basement of Abbey Church) with Fr. Anthony Ruff, OSB
11:45 - 12:30 Music Theory II (Small Groups) - Topic: Counterpoint and Imitation
12:30 -2:00 pm: Lunch and Break
2:00 - 3:00 pm: Music Rehearsal (Open to Conference Participants)
. Break
3:30 - 4:45 pm: Music Rehearsal
5:00 - 5:45 pm: Religion IV  - Topic:  The Blessed Virgin Mary
. Dinner
6:45 pm: Warmup in Great Hall for
7:45 pm: Mini-Concert, Great Hall - National Catholic Youth Choir / Stefan Engels, Organ (in Abbey Church)
10:00 pm: Compline
11:00 pm: Lights Out
Saturday, June 17
7:00 am: Rise
7:30 am: Prayer and Breakfast
8:00 - 10:30 am: Music Rehearsal - (10:15 - 10:45: NCYC cantors rehearse in Abbey Church with Bill Chouinard)
10:45 am: Warmup in Abbey Church for
11:15 am: Closing Mass of Liturgical Music Conference - National Catholic Youth Choir, Conference Choir, Conference Chant Schola / Fr. J. Michael Joncas, presiding
1:30 pm:  Depart for Milwaukee - (Bag Lunch; Dinner at Fast Food Restaurant)
9 pm: Estimated Arrival Time, Marquette University Dormitory - General Meeting and Compline
11:00: Lights Out
Sunday, June 18, Trinity Sunday
6:15 am: Rise
7:00 am: Bus ride to Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist
7:20 am: Warmup for
8:00 am: Mass of Trinity Sunday - Archbishop Rembert Weakland, OSB, presiding
9:00 am: Breakfast at Cathedral
10:15 am: Warmup for
10:40 am: Pre-Mass Concert
11:00 am: Mass at Cathedral
12:00 Lunch (Fast Food restaurants in area)
1:00 - 3:00 pm: Tour:  Milwaukee Art Museum
3:00 pm: Depart Milwaukee for Collegeville
. Dinner (Fast Food restaurants)
11:00 pm: Estimated arrival at St. John's University; Compline
12:00 pm: Lights Out
Monday, June 19 - St. Romuald, Abbot
8:00 am: Rise
8:30 am: Prayer and Breakfast
9:15 - 10:00 am: Religion Class V  - Topic: Catholic Church, Papacy
10:15-11:45 am: Music Rehearsal
12:00-12:15 pm: Noon Prayer with Monks, Abbey Church
12:15 - 1:15 pm: Lunch
1:15 - 2:30 pm: Music Rehearsal
3:00 pm: Depart for Duluth
6:00 pm: Estimated Arrival - Bag supper by Lake Superior
7:30 pm: Concert of National Catholic Youth Choir - Sacred Heart Music Center, Duluth, 201 W Fourth Street
9:00 pm: Depart for Collegeville
12:00 pm: Estimated arrival at St. John's University; Compline
12:45 pm: Lights Out
Tuesday, June 20
8:00 am: Rise
8:30 am: Prayer and Breakfast
9:15 - 11:00 am: Tour of Benedicta Arts Center, College of St. Benedict and Sacred Heart Chapel, St. Benedict Monastery
11:15 am: Mass in Emmaus Chapel with Fr. Anthony Ruff, OSB
12:00 noon: Lunch
1:00 - 2:30 pm: Music rehearsal
3:00 pm: Depart for Minneapolis
4:30 pm: Tour of Basilica of St. Mary, Minneapolis
5:30 pm: Depart for Annunciation Church, Submarine sandwich supper in church basement
6:30 pm: Warmup for
7:30 pm: Concert of National Catholic Youth Choir - Annunciation Catholic Church, Minneapolis, 54th Street and Harriet Avenue
9:15 pm: Depart for Collegeville
11:00 Estimated arrival at St. John's University; Compline
11:30 pm: Lights out
Wednesday, June 21 - St. Aloysius Gonzaga
7:30 am: Rise
8:00 am: Breakfast and Prayer
8:30 - 9:30 am: Christian Dating and the Vocation to Marriage - With Jim and Maureen O'Tremba
9:45 - 11:30 am: Pilgrimmage to Stella Maris Chapel, Recitation of Rosary
11:30 -12:30 pm: Lunch
12:30 - 1:15 pm: Religion Class VI - Topic: Personal Prayer
1:30 - 2:30 pm: Communal Penance Service with Individual Confession, St. Benedict Chapel
3:00 - 4:00 pm: Music Rehearsal
4:00 - 12:00 pm:: Cookout and Social at Dr. Theimer's house, concluding with Bonfire and Compline
12:00 pm: Lights Out
Thursday, June 22 - St. John Fisher and St.Thomas More
7:30 am: Rise
8:00 am: Prayer and Breakfast
8:30 - 9:15 am: Liturgical Music as a Career and Vocation - Presentation by liturgical music graduates of CSB/SJU
9:30 - 10:30 am: Rehearsal / Recording Session in Great Hall
11:00 am: Live Recorded Concert in Great Hall for Parents, Friends, and Relatives
12:00 noon: Meet under Bell Banner, Concluding Prayer and Blessing by Abbot Timothy Kelly, OSB
12:15 pm: Conclusion of the Program, Lunch
1:30 pm: Depart for Airport
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© 2000 National Catholic Youth Choir
Saint John's Abbey and University,
Collegeville, Minnesota 56321
For information contact the choir founder and chaplain,
Fr.Anthony Ruff, O.S.B.

This website was created and is maintained by Peter Habenczius
URL: http://www.csbsju.edu/ncyc/schedule1.htm
Last update: June 9, 2000