Columbus St. Joseph Cathedral’s schedule of musical events for 2022-23 will begin at 3 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 18 with a concert by the Hohenfels Trombone Quartet from Rochester, New York, accompanied by cathedral organist Amanda Mole. It will be followed by special events in every month from October to April.
Organist Karl Robson, music director of St. John’s Episcopal Church, Norwood
Parish in Chevy Chase, Maryland, will present a concert at 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 16. It will be followed by the choir’s annual presentation of Maurice Durufle’s Requiem at the cathedral’s All Souls Day Mass at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 2 and its lessons and carols program at 3 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 4.
There will be organ concerts by Michael Unger, associate professor of organ and harpsichord at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music on Sunday, Jan. 22 and Michael Kleinschmidt, canon for music at St. Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral in Seattle on Sunday, Feb. 19, both at 3 p.m.
Dr. Richard Fitzgerald, the cathedral’s music director, will give his second annual presentation of improvised meditations on the Stations of the Cross at 7 p.m. Friday, March 31.
The Cathedral Schola’s annual presentation of music for Tenebrae, a service designed to recreate the sense of passion, abandonment and agony related to Jesus’ Passion, will be at 8 p.m. Good Friday, April 7. It will feature Thomas Tallis’ Lamentations of Jeremiah. The evening is marked by the gradual extinction of candles, ending in the performance of Gregorio Allegri’s Miserere in a completely darkened cathedral.
Praise and Adoration event set
“Touch the Hem of His Garment,” a praise and adoration event sponsored by Columbus Catholic Renewal, is open to anyone from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, Aug. 27 at Columbus Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal Church, 5225 Refugee Road.
Mass, potluck breakfast, teaching, Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, prayer teams and confession will be available. Contemporary Christian music will be provided by Michael Melliere.
There is no cost. Everyone is encouraged to bring a dish to share.
For more information, contact Patrick Schroyer at 614-302-3970.
Columbus Catholic Renewal is under the authority of Bishop Earl Fernandes.
ODU plans lecture series
Ohio Dominican University (ODU) is hosting two lecture series related to its fall seminar theme and its annual celebration of Dominican saints.
ODU’s Center for Dominican Studies will present four lectures by university faculty members in September that will focus on the university’s academic theme for the upcoming year, “What is our call to justice and peace?” All lectures will be on Thursdays at 3:30 p.m. in Sansbury Hall’s Colonial Room. There will be no admission charge, but advance registration is required because of limited space.
Topics and speakers are: Sept. 8, “Reflections on Justice in the Biblical Tradition: From Lexis Talionis to the Law of the Spirit,” with Dr. Leo Madden, associate professor of theology; Sept. 22, “Poetic Justice: Socially Conscious Poetry from the American Revolution to Amanda Gorman,” with Jeremy Glazier, professor of English; Oct. 6, “Is Justice Possible?” with Dr. Ronald Carstens, professor of political science; Oct. 20, “Coping with the Call to Justice: Tools for Working with and for Justice,” with Dr. Kelsey Squire, associate professor of English; Dr. Katie Gorman-Ezell, assistant professor of social work at Capital University; Dr. Emily Phillips, assistant professor of exercise science; and Dr. Anjel Stough-Hunter, associate professor of sociology.
To reserve your seat for each session, contact Sister Diane Traffas, OP, at traffasd@ohiodominican.edu or (614) 251-4722.
The talks on Dominican saints will be presented in Erskine Hall’s Sister Mary Andrew Matesich, OP Theater by members of the Dominican Sisters of Peace, ODU’s founding congregation. Admission is free and no registration is required.
Dates, topics and speakers for the lectures are: Wednesday, Nov. 16, 11 a.m., St. Albert the Great, with Sister Sharon Zayac, OP; Thursday, Jan. 26, 2023, St. Thomas Aquinas, with Sister Marcelline Koch, OP; Thursday, April 19, 2023, St. Catherine of Siena, with Sister Margaret Ormond, OP.