Father Funk honored with Festschrift of essays on music in liturgy

Published: 2007-07-20

INDIANAPOLIS (CNS) -- OCP, a Portland, Ore.-based publisher of liturgical music and worship resources, honored Father Virgil C. Funk with the presentation of a Festschrift during the July 9-13 convention of the National Association of Pastoral Musicians in Indianapolis. Also honored at the convention were composers Father J. Michael Joncas and Marty Haugen. The musicians association gave Father Joncas its 2007 "Jubilate Deo" Award, and it named Haugen pastoral musician of the year. Father Funk is president emeritus of the association, which he founded in 1976. The Festschrift, a volume of writing put together for a celebration, is titled "The Song of the Assembly: Pastoral Music in Practice." Presented to him July 11, its release coincided with the priest's 70th birthday. "The Song of the Assembly," available through the OCP's newly revamped Web site www.ocp.org, is a collection of 23 new essays on music in the liturgy. Each essay takes as its starting point a particular church document on music and liturgy published in the last 100 years.

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