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FACULTY

John Flaherty has been involved in music and educational ministry for over twenty years as an educator, elementary school principal, music director, liturgy director, and composer. He has taught on the elementary, secondary, and college levels and is presently on the Campus Ministry Team at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, where he serves as the Director of Liturgy and Music. John has served as the Chairperson of the Liturgy Committee and Music Director for the Los Angeles Religious Education Congress since 1991. He is also a contributing writer for Modern Liturgy, Pastoral Music, Our Family, and Hosanna magazines. He sits on the Editorial Board of Table. His compositions and recordings are published by World Library Publications and GIA Publications. His credits include scoring soundtracks for Lorimar and ABC. He has worked extensively with the United States Catholic Conference of Bishops. John has been married to his wife, Kathleen, for 15 years and they have five children.

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GUEST FACULTY

Paul Ford, PhD is Professor of Systematic Theology and Liturgy at Saint John's Seminary in Camarillo. He earned a B.A. in Philosophy, St. John's Seminary College, Camarillo, a M.A. in Religion, St. John's Seminary, Camarillo, and a Ph.D., Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, California. He studied for the priesthood for the then diocese of Monterey-Fresno, 1961-1973, but was never ordained. He was a Benedictine monk at St. Andrew's Abbey, Valyermo, from 1973-1978. Dr. Ford was the first Roman Catholic in the doctoral program at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena. His primary areas of competence are ecclesiology, spirituality, and music and liturgy; his secondary areas are Mariology and chant. He is an internationally recognized authority on the life and writings of C. S. Lewis. His award-winning book, Companion to Narnia (HarperCollins) is now in its fourth edition. Cardinal Mahony honored him with the Laudatus Award for 1995 "for excellence in the promotion of the liturgical life of the parishes and the people of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles." Dr. Ford's latest publications are eleven entries in C. S. Lewis: A Reader's Encyclopedia (Zondervan, Summer 1998) and By Flowing Waters: Chant for the Liturgy (The Liturgical Press, Summer 1999).

Gail Gresser, MA is Director of Campus Ministry at Mount St. Mary's College in Los Angeles. She has extensive experience in the area of Christian Initiation and liturgy. For many years she was a member of the Initiation Committee of the Office for Worship in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. She is currently also the Coordinator of the Ministry Leadership program for the Center for Religion and Spirituality at LMU Extension. She holds a Masters in Psychological Anthropology from UCLA and a Masters in Theology from Loyola Marymount University.

Reverend Felix Just, S.J., PhD is currently the Director of Biblical Education at the Loyola Institute for Spirituality in Orange, CA, through which he offers and directs a variety of adult biblical education programs. He received an S.T.L. in Scripture from the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley and a Ph.D. in New Testament Studies from Yale University. He gives many public lectures on Biblical and liturgical topics, is an instructor in the Catholic Bible Institute. Prior to moving to Orange County, he taught theology and religious studies at Loyola Marymount University, the University of San Francisco, and the University of Santa Clara. He is an active member of the Catholic Biblical Association and the Society of Biblical Literature, and maintains a large internationally acclaimed website with a wide variety of biblical and liturgical materials, Catholic-Resources.org.

Kathy Lindell served for more than 15 years in the Los Angeles Archdiocesan Office for Worship, from 2000-2003 as Director. A highlight of her experience there was to chair the committee to review and promulgate Cardinal Mahony’s pastoral letter on Sunday Eucharist, Gather Faithfully Together. Kathy developed and coordinated the first liturgical ministry certification program in the Diocese of Orange and assisted in the development of formation and education for liturgical leadership in the Diocese of San Bernardino. Her article on Liturgy Committee Development in America Magazine, “The Ministry of the Parish Liturgy Committee,” was included in a book entitled Celebrating Good Liturgy (Loyola Press). She is currently a teacher in the Diaconate Formation process for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, facilitating a third year class in which the curriculum is liturgy, sacramental theology, prison ministry and ecumenism. She offers workshops and seminars in local parishes and in other Dioceses in Southern California on many topics about Liturgy. Kathy holds a BA in Fine Arts from Marymount College, a member of the last class to graduate from the Palos Verdes Campus before the merger with LMU. She also earned a graduate certificate in Liturgical Studies from Mount Saint Mary’s College. She is a parishioner and parish cantor at St. John Vianney in Hacienda Heights, where she developed and chaired the Parish Liturgy Committee for many years.

Reverend J. Patrick Mullen, PhD is Associate Professor of Biblical Studies at Saint John’s Seminary College in Camarillo, California. His dissertation was an anthropological investigation of purity and qorban in Mark’s Gospel: A Jewish Jesus, A Diaspora Audience: An Anthropological Reading of Mark 7:1-23. More recently, he has authored Dining with Pharisees (2004) as well as a number of articles, and is currently working on a cultural anthropology commentary for Liturgical Press, and a high school textbook for St. Mary’s Press. A yearly speaker at the Religious Education Conference in Anaheim, he has also lectured for the Little Rock Bible Study Summer Workshop, the Texas Catholic Conference, regional conferences in San Diego, Las Vegas, Reno, Boise and Fresno, and to the priest of Phoenix, Utah, San Diego and Los Angeles. Ordained to the priesthood for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, Fr. Patrick Mullen began ministry as a parish priest, serving as associate pastor at St. Margaret Mary in Lomita and St. John Vianney in Hacienda Heights.