Italian Bishops’ Conference relaunches course for musical and liturgical improvement with new didactic and thematic topics

Newsroom (26/04/2022 12:30 PM, Gaudium Press) The Italian Bishops’ Conference (CEI) has updated its course of liturgical and musical improvement (Coperlim).

The course is dedicated to all those who work with liturgy and music in dioceses, parishes, or religious institutes, and also for those responsible for sacred music in dioceses or schools of sacred music in Italy.

The National Secretariat of Liturgy, which promotes the course of musical improvement, has been favoring the liturgical and musical formation of the Church in Italy for years.

Bishop Mario Castellano, director of the National Secretariat of Liturgy, explained that the course is an “experience that in previous years has involved many musicians and singers, helping them to improve their formation, the animation of celebrations and the participation in assemblies in our communities.

This year, the course will bring new features to the teaching method, among which are the creation of an online module of Liturgical Music Course for those responsible for liturgical animation, and courses on different topics that aim to deepen the theoretical and practical knowledge of music and liturgy.

The Liturgical-Musical Enhancement Course was born in 1994, at the initiative of the National Liturgical Secretariat. In 2014, the Course received a sponsorship from the Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music in Rome. (FM)

Compiled by Sarah Gangl