If anyone is not familiar with the Catholic Parish Summit, or the Catholic ministry “Divine Renovation” that hosted the event, it was an international gathering of Catholics in the northern English town of Harrogate in early June. The purpose was to invigorate parishes and inspire renewal and evangelisation.
The style of the event would have been unfamiliar to some Catholic attendees, with its rousing talks, carefully designed and aesthetically lit stage, and modern “praise and worship” music, performed by a band replete with drum kit, guitar and emotional vocals. Speakers were accompanied by atmospheric chords played on a keyboard using the “electronic strings” mode, as they crescendoed into rousing calls for change, or invoked the presence of God.
