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CONFERENCE
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The
Centro Pro Unione |
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invites
you to the |
Fourth
annual conference in honor of |
Father
Paul Wattson and Mother Lurana White |
founders
of the Society of the Atonement |
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MASS
WITHOUT THE CONSECRATION
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The
Historic Agreement on the Eucharist
Between the Catholic Church and the
Assyrian Church of the East
Promulgated 26 October 2001 |
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Archimandrite
Robert F. Taft, SJ |
Professor
Emeritus of Oriental Liturgy |
Pontifical
Oriental Institute |
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Thursday,
20 March 2003 - 18.00 |
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Centro
Pro Unione
Via Santa Maria dell'Anima 30,
00186 - Rome |
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Robert F. Taft
Archimandrite Robert F.
Taft, S.J., a Jesuit priest of the Byzantine Slavonic (Russian) rite,
is editor-in-chief of Orientalia Christiana Analecta, founder and editor-in-chief
of Anaphorae Orientales, and Professor Emeritus of Oriental Liturgy at
the Pontifical Oriental Institute, Rome, where received his doctorate
in 1970, followed in 1971-72 by postdoctoral studies in Oriental Philology
at the University of Louvain, Belgium. A prolific writer, his bibliography
comprises over 630 titles, including fourteen books plus seven edited
in collaboration with others. Several of his writings have been translated
into Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian,
Malayalam, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, and Ukrainian. In
recognition of his work, Fr. Taft has received numerous academic awards,
including two honorary doctorates. In 2001 he was elected Corresponding
Fellow of the British Academy, the highest honor the Academy confers on
non-British scholars. Fr. Taft is the only US Jesuit ever to be so honored.
Most recently (Dec. 2001) he was named the first Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky
Guest Professor at the Lviv Theological Academy, Lviv, Ukraine. Since
the fall of Communism in 1989, Fr. Taft has been actively engaged in assisting
in the restoration of theological education in Greek-Catholic Churches
long persecuted and suppressed in the former Soviet East Bloc. On May
5, 1998, the Head of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church elevated Fr.
Taft to the dignity of Mitred Archimandrite in recognition of his services
to the Eastern Churches. On November 11, 1999, Archbishop Vsevolod of
Scopelos, of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA within the jurisdiction
of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, conferred on Fr. Taft,
in the name of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, a second pectoral cross, with
the right to wear the double pectoral insignia, in recognition of his
scholarly research and writings on the Orthodox tradition. As Consultor
for Liturgy of the Vatican Congregation for the Oriental Churches and
member of several Vatican commissions and other editorial and advisory
boards, Fr. Taft is one of those the Holy See consulted concerning the
epoch-making decision that is the topic of his lecture.
Historical note
In 1898, the Spirit of
God inspired Sister Lurana White and Father Paul Wattson to establish
a religious community to be called the Society of the Atonement. The
Founders had the vision of a religious congregation dedicated to the unity
of Christians and to reconciliation in the spirit of St. Francis of Assisi.
Since the Founders were Episcopalians, the roots of the Society were implanted
in that ecclesial communion until 1909, the year in which the Friars and
Sisters of the Atonement entered into full communion with the Catholic
Church. This was the first time that a corporate reunion with Rome took
place since the Reformation. Among the various activities of the Society
of the Atonement, special mention needs to be made of the Week of Prayer
for Christian Unity begun by Fr. Paul in 1908 and celebrated today throughout
the world. From the humble beginnings in an abandoned church, St. John's-in-the-Wilderness,
in an area called Graymoor, (New York), the Society of the Atonement has
dedicated its efforts for the unity of the Church and reconciliation in
several countries: the United States, Canada, Japan, England, Ireland,
Brazil and Italy. Yearly
conferences honoring the memory of Fr. Paul Wattson were begun in 1974
at The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, then, in 1980,
at the University of San Francisco. To these were added in 1995, the Paul
Wattson Lectures at the Atlantic School of Theology, Halifax and in 1996
at the Toronto School of Theology. The Paul Wattson Lectures are given
by international experts in the field of ecumenism and interreligious
dialogue. Since 1998, the Centro Pro Unione organizes lectures each year
in December to honor Fr. Paul Wattson and Mother Lurana White, co-founders
of the Society of the Atonement. Earlier lecturers were Enzo Bianchi,
Founder and Prior of the Community of Bose, Sarah Anne Coakley (Harvard
University), Bruno Forte (Pontifical Theological Faculty - Naples) and
Anna Marie Aagaard (Denmark).
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