Tuesday, April 8, 2014

Welcome To This New Music Blog for St. Therese

I am delighted to be your new Music Director. St. Therese has a long history of good music and an abundance of talent. Thank you to all of you who have made my first week easier by your kindness and your assistance! Be patient with me as I learn who you are and where everything is!

Have you thought about joining the choir? We have 27 seats in the choir section. Let's fill them up! Who can join?: Adults,and high school and college students. You should have a good singing voice. When you join the choir, you commit to a Thursday evening rehearsal from 7:00PM to 8:30 PM and to singing at Mass on Sunday at 11AM (or sometimes on Saturday evening at 5:00PM. The choir also leads the music at one Christmas Mass and during Holy Week. The choir season runs from September through May. We have fun together, pray together, and sing together.

Are you an instrumentalist: guitarist, flute, violin, trumpet? Many of you have played for Mass in the past, and maybe you have never played for Mass and would like to try. If you would like to be part of the music ministry at St. Therese, come and talk with me, or e-mail me.

We could use more cantors. This ministry requires a good voice and a prayerful presence. If you would be interested, contact me. If you are a high school or college student and cannot commit to a regular cantor schedule, maybe you would like to cantor during the summer. If so, please contact me.

Choir of Hope - St. Therese Funeral Choir. When we have a funeral you will be called. There is no special rehearsal, except for a warm-up before the funeral.

I am always glad to talk with you after the weekend Masses. Come and introduce yourself to me.

This coming Sunday is Palm Sunday of the Lord's Passion, and we enter into the sacred days of Holy Week. The time of Holy Week is an outpouring of special graces. At the Easter Vigil the Exsultet is proclaimed and we rejoice: "Exult, let them exult, the hosts of heaven, exult, let Angel ministers of God exult, let the trumpet of salvation sound aloud our mighty King's triumph!"

Happy Easter to all!