The National Association of Pastoral Musicians presented the 2010 Jubilate Deo Award to Kathleen Hughes, RSCJ. This award has been presented annually since 1996 to honor a person who has made a significant contribution to the worship life of Catholics in the United States. (Previous recipients are listed here.)
The 2010 award citation reads:
Jubilate Deo to
Kathleen Hughes, RSCJ
Scholar and Teacher
For Courageous Leadership and
Tireless Advocacy of Liturgical Renewal
Close to 2,000 people gathered in Detroit on July 12, 2010, for the annual conference of the National Association of Pastoral Musicians, and Sister Hughes gave the keynote address.
She began by saying:
“I have been asked to launch this celebration of harmony and hope. This is a real challenge for me, since I – as I suspect many of you – have found it harder and harder to ‘sing the Lord’s song in this alien land.’ Too often, of late, I have been ready ‘to hang up my harp.’ What I offer you this afternoon is as much the fruit of my own interior struggle and my prayer as it is of years of scholarship and training. I accept this opportunity, in the spirit of the First Letter of Peter: “Always be prepared to give an account for the hope that is in you, yet do it with gentleness and reverence.”
Full text of Sister Hughes comments can be found here.
News of the event was also published in the Green Bay diocesan newspaper.
