“We need each other’s voice to sing, each other’s strength to love, each other’s views to help us bring our hearts to God above.
Our lives like coals placed side by side to feed each other’s flame, shall with the Spirit’s breath provide a blaze of faith to claim.
We give our alleluias To the church’s common chord: Alleluia! Alleluia! Praise, O Praise, O Praise the Lord!”
Thomas H. Troeger
While the role of the cantor is to lead and encourage the song of the assembly, the role of the choir is to embellish and adorn it through harmony. (Once again, under no circumstances to replace it.) When the congregation sounds better, people sing more, and the more people sing, the better they sound. It’s the job of the choir to build up the song of the people in many ways – in terms of volume, in terms of artistry, and in terms of morale. We sing as a choir to facilitate and strengthen the singing of the Church. Our music serves as ministry, not merely fulfilling our own artistic endeavors or egos.
Please accept this invitation to participate more fully, more actively, in our parish’s music ministry. If you are interested in singing in the choir, leading the congregation as a cantor, or enriching our liturgy as an instrumentalist, email Shawn Gelzleichter at sgelzleichter@gmail.com or call the rectory at 781-662-8844.