We welcome new members to our
choirs. No auditions are necessary, just a love of beautiful music
and desire to enhance the liturgy with song.
Our Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, in a recent address cited a passage from the
writings of St. Augustine in commenting on the importance of music in people's
lives:
"Song is an expression of love...In this
thanksgiving, in this love for the earth, there is also present and resounding
our love for the Creator, the love of God who has given us this land, this
life of joy, that we see even more clearly in light of our faith, which tells
us that God loves us.
"The popular culture evident in such an elevated form is a joy...that we
should cultivate and promote. Training in song, in choral singing,
is not only an exercise of external hearing and the voice; it is also an
education of the inner hearing, of the heart's hearing, an exercise and
training in life and peace. In order to sing together it is necessary to
pay attention to the other, to the totality that we call music and culture
and, in this way, singing in a choir is an education in life and peace."
Rehearsal for the Adult Choir is
usually on Thursday at 7:30PM. The Adult Choir provides music for the 11AM
Sunday mass, with the exception of the first Sunday of the month when the
Children's Choir sings.
The Children's choir rehearses two
Thursdays prior to the first Sunday, at 6:15PM. The Children's Choir is open to
children in 3rd through 8th grade. Teens are welcome to join the adult
choir. Rehearsals are posted in the Sunday bulletin.
For more information on the choirs
contact Paula Brown at 561-4669.
