JANUARY 2022
Tony Alonso is a Latin Grammy-nominated composer of sacred music and a scholar whose work responds to the diverse realities of contemporary culture. His music appears in compilations and
hymnals across Christian denominations throughout the world. HisMass of Joy and Peace is one of the most widely sung Mass settings in the English-speaking world. In 2015, Tony’s compositional work was recognized with an invitation to compose the responsorial psalm for the first Mass Pope Francis celebrated in the United States. And in 2020, he was nominated for a Latin Grammy for his groundbreaking album “Caminemos con Jesús” (GIA Publications, 2020). Tony’s scholarly work lies at the intersection of liturgical theology and cultural studies. In 2019, he was awarded the Catherine Mowry LaCugna Award for new scholars for the best academic essay in the field of theology within the Roman Catholic tradition by
the Catholic Teological Society of America. His book Commodified Communion: Eucharist, Consumer Culture, and the Practice of Everyday Life (Fordham University Press, 2021) was awarded the 2021 Hispanic Teological Initiative Book Prize, an award that recognizes the best book written by a junior Latinx scholar on theology or religion each year. Tony is currently Assistant Professor of Teology and Culture at Candler School of Teology at Emory University, where he also serves as the inaugural Director of Catholic Studies.
1 United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Sing to the
Lord: Music in Divine Worship (Washington, D.C.: United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, 2008), no. 59. 2
Mark Francis and Rufino Zaragoza,Liturgy in a Culturally
Diverse Community: A Guide / La Liturgia en Una Comunidad de Diversas Culturas: Una Guia Para Entenderla (Washington, DC: FDLC, 2012), 3. 3
Mary E. McGann, “Embracing the Diversity in the Church,”
Pastoral Musician, vol. 30, no. 1 (October/November 2005): 35–45. 4
Holy Tursday Entrance Antiphon, Roman Missal, 3rd Edition.
Calvin Symposium on Worship
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