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Dr. Amanda Staggenborg
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(SAINT BENEDICT, Ore.)- The Mount Angel Institute at Mount Angel Abbey (MAI) hosted a week-long Fellowship of Scholars focused on the theme of “Liturgy and the Senses.” Participants from leading global institutions, including Yale University, the University of Notre Dame, the University of Regensburg, and others presented and responded to the latest research and expanded their relationships with colleagues in the field of liturgical studies.

Dr. Anna Petrin, associate professor of liturgical and sacramental theology at Mount Angel Seminary, who also organized the conference, stated, “This was a wonderful chance to bring together scholars from around the world so that we could work together to deepen our understanding of people’s experience of worship and the sacraments. It was a fruitful week that produced new ideas, promising avenues of research, and exciting opportunities for future collaboration.” The chosen theme for the fellowship was inspired by the recent “turn to the study of the senses” that focuses on the use of sight, smell, touch, taste and hearing in the worship of our own time and throughout liturgical history. The question of embodied experience in worship requires an interdisciplinary approach in which scholars work together to examine the worshiper’s liturgical encounter with Christ.

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Conference Participants

• Dr. Harald Buchinger – University of Regensburg (Regensburg, Germany)
• Dr. Teresa Berger – Yale University (New Haven, CT)
• Dr. Kimberly Belcher – University of Notre Dame (Notre Dame, IN)
• Dr. Léon van Ommen – University of Aberdeen (Aberdeen, Scotland)
• Dr. Sarah Kathleen Johnson – University of St. Paul (Ottawa, Canada)
• Dr. J.J. Wright – University of Notre Dame (Notre Dame, IN)
• Dr. Nelson Cowan – Samford University (Homewood, AL)
• Dr. Benjamin Durheim – St. John’s University School of Theology & Seminary (Collegeville, MN)
• Dr. Audrey Seah – College of the Holy Cross (Worcester, MA)
• Dr. Tom McLean – St. Patrick’s Pontifical University (Maynooth, Ireland)
• Dr. Carmel Pilcher, RSJ (Sydney, Australia)
• Rev. Matthew Cortese, SJ – University of Notre Dame (Notre Dame, IN)
• Rev. Erik Sorensen, SJ – University of St. Paul (Ottawa, Canada)
• Rev. Joachim Ozonze – University of Notre Dame (Notre Dame, IN)
• Theresa Rice – University of Notre Dame (Notre Dame, IN)
• Dr. Anna Petrin – Mount Angel Seminary

About Mount Angel Abbey and Seminary

Mount Angel Abbey, a Benedictine monastic community founded in 1882, is dedicated to a life of prayer, work, pastoral ministry, hospitality and education. Mount Angel Seminary, an apostolate of Mount Angel Abbey and the largest seminary in the West, forms men for the Roman Catholic priesthood. The Abbey Foundation of Oregon supports the monastic community’s mission of service to the Church.