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What We Have Seen and Heard
What We Have Seen and Heard
Register here for "What We Have Seen and Heard" workshop.
What We Have Seen and Heard: Touching the African American Soul in School and Worship
Saturday, November 1, 2008
10:00 AM to 2:00 PM
St. Francis Elementary School
7206 Myron Ave.
Cleveland, OH 44103
Cost: $10 for registrations received by October 24. $15 at the door.
Co-sponsored by: Saint Martin de Porres High School &
Office of Ministry to African American Catholics
Fr. Fernand J. Cheri, III, OFM
Keynote Speaker
For more information, contact:
Mr. Steve Suding
216-881-1689, ext. 303
ssuding@stmdphs.org
Father Ferd is a Franciscan Friar of the Sacred Heart Province (St. Louis) and has been ordained for 26 years. He has served at Our Lady of Lourdes Church, New Orleans; St. Joseph the Worker, Marrero, LA; St. Francis de Sales, NO; and St. Vincent de Paul, Nashville, TN. He taught at St. Augustine High School, NO; Hales Franciscan HS, Chicago; and presently guidance counselor and administrative staff member at Althoff Catholic High School in Belleville, IL. He received his Masters of Divinity degree at Notre Dame Seminary, New Orleans and a Masters of Theology degree at Xavier University of Louisiana, New Orleans. He wrote his thesis, "Songs of the Soul and the Soil," the history of Black Religious music. He is an archivist of Black religious music with a collection of 4.000 recordings of gospel music and files of gospel sheet music.
He is the editor and compiler of the 7-volume 1994 Gospel Music Discography and the 9-volume 1997 Gospel Music Discography. He wrote an article, "Black Catholic Liturgy" in TELL IT LIKE IT IS, a Black Catholic catechetical book in 1982. He also wrote " Mass of Thanksgiving" in FREEING THE SPIRIT, a Black Catholic liturgical magazine, Spring 1979. He has served as a member of the liturgical planning committee for the National Black Catholic Congress in Chicago 2002; the planning committee for Unity Explosion 1991 in New Orleans; the Bishops' Committee on the Liturgy Subcommittee on Black Catholic Worship 1984 to 1990; the National Joint Conference of Black Catholic Religious Planning Committee 1983-1990; and the Black Catholic Theological Symposium 1978.
In the past, he began the Youth Gospel Choir at Our Lady of Lourdes and the St. Joseph the Worker Youth Choir. He began the Black Saints Celebrations for the Archdiocese of New Orleans from 1984 to 1991. He has been a presenter on Worship for Black Catholics at the National Black Congress Pastoring in Black Parishes Workshop and at Unity Explosion Conferences in Dallas, Houston, Birmingham and New Orleans. He is the contributing author to the book, SWEET, SWEET SPIRIT: Prayer Services from the Black Catholic Church, in 2006.
He serves as a member of the Diocesan Liturgical Commission of Belleville, IL, and as the choir director of the Althoff Gospel Crusaders. He works with the Archbishop James P. Lyke Liturgical Conferences; and is chairperson of Lyke Conference 2005 in St. Louis. He is the convener and facilitator of Go Down Moses Retreats for African American Catholic Young Men. He has worked with KUJENGA Youth Leadership Programs in Chicago and assists KUJENGA in the St. Louis/Belleville area.
Cleveland, OH 44103