AUSCP 2021 Assembly
WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?
AUSCP 10th Annual Assembly
June 21-24, 2021
Minneapolis-St. Paul
ALL ARE WELCOME TO JOIN US
Assembly Registration Information
Registration Required: Register online or send a check to: AUSCP P.O. Box 676, Tiffin, OH 44883.
Early Bird Special: If paid by April 30, 2021, cost is $480; after April 30, cost is $500. (No extra charge for Retreat Day for Assembly participants).
Room Reservations: Register online or contact the DoubleTree by Hilton directly at 952-835-7800 or 866-271-8967. Rooms are $119 per night (Standard Room, single or double occupancy) if booked by May 20. Limited availability; rate available three days before and after the Assembly. Refund minus processing fee available for cancellations by June 4.
Assembly Featured Presenters and Leaders
Fr. Michael Joncas
Day Retreat Leader
LIVING IN APOCALYPTIC TIMES
Monday 10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. and 1:30 – 3:30 p.m.
Father Jan Michael Joncas, perhaps best known for his composition, On Eagle’s Wings, is an internationally recognized liturgical composer, author, speaker, and professor.He has served as associate pastor, campus minister, and parochial administrator at various parishes and Newman Centers in Minnesota. He has graduate degrees in theology and liturgical studies from the University of Notre Dame and from the Pontifical University of Sant’ Anselmo in Rome.
He has published four books and more than 20 collections of liturgical music, and is currently Artist in Residence and Research Fellow in Catholic Studies at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. Joncas has interacted with the AUSCP over the years, speaking to the assembly in 2015 and gifting us with “A Place Called Home” to the tune of Finlandia that has been adopted as a theme of the AUSCP. See a recent video, Shelter Me, composed to give home during the pandemic.
Bishop William Wack, CSC
Bishop of Pensacola-Tallahassee
PASTORAL DIRECTIONS FOR OUR U.S. CHURCH GOING FORWARD
Wednesday 10 a.m.
Sr. Margie Klein, SSND
Assembly Contemplative Engagement Guide
Monday – Wednesday
Archbishop John Wester
Archbishop of Santa Fe
Assembly Mass Presider
Wednesday 4 p.m.
Michael Sean Winters
Historian and National Catholic Reporter “Distinctly Catholic” columnist
THE POLITICO-THEOLOGICAL MERGER THAT IS SHAPING THE U.S. CATHOLIC CHURCH
Monday 7 p.m.
Bishop Richard Pates
Minneapolis-St. Paul Archdiocesan Welcomer and Concelebrant
Native of Minneapolis-St. Paul, retired Bishop of Des Moines, IA
Dr. Shannen Dee Williams
Villanova Catholic History Professor
WHY BLACK CATHOLIC HISTORY MATTERS
Tuesday 10 a.m.