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SS. PETER AND PAUL INSTITUTE OF THEOLOGY SYMPOSIUM
Thursday, December 14, 2023

The SS. Peter and Paul Institute of Theology organized her first symposium on the topic tagged Full, Active and Conscious Participation in the Liturgy. This was in a bid to celebrant the 60th anniversary of Sacrosanctum Concilium, one of the Conciliar documents promulgated by the Second Vatican Council Fathers on the Sacredness of the Church's liturgical worship.

 

The lecture was moderated by Very Rev. Fr. Francis Adedara (Dean of Studies of the Seminary) while the topics were treated by three eminent cum scholarly speakers in the persons of Rev. Frs. Anthony Omugunbi, Richard Omolade (Both are adjunct lecturers in the Semianry) and Peter Ibimuyimi (Ibadan Archdiocesan Chaplain of Liturgical Music). The First and second speakers (Frs. Anthony Omugunbi, and Richard Omolade) took into consideration the necessity for active and conscious participation on the part of the lay faithful at every liturgical worship. The speakers pointed out the need for liturgical catechesis which has to do with teaching or enlightening the people about the liturgy of the Catholic Church as well as the liturgical formation of the lay faithful by the priest through their exemplary lifestyles, however, all these should not take the place of liturgical homilies.

 

More so, the thematic issue treated was the issue of the sudden emergence of Pentecostalism in our modern day liturgical worship was anchored by the third speaker Fr. Peter Ibimuyimi. The speaker stressed the need to get rid of every form of Pentecostalism form the public worship of the Church so that the beauty of the ancient liturgy handed down by our fathers of faith can be restored and authentic worship can be rendered to God in a befitting manner. The lecture was apt and timely and of great value to our seminarians and Religious seminarians and invited priests as well.

 


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