Songs & Updates for Saturday, December 16, 2017

This Saturday is the 3rd Sunday of Advent.

Thanks for bearing with my concert schedule last week! It was a fun performance, and coming to Mass in tux-like attire is always interesting :-)

We were light on musicians and rehearsal was a bit rushed (apologies for not quite having it together), but there weren't any major issues.

Songs & Updates for Saturday, December 10, 2016

This Saturday is the Third Sunday of Advent.

Mass last week was pretty solid, with the last song being pretty exceptional (check it out below :-). There weren't any major issues, but please do remember to watch for cues so we come in together (and stay together) throughout songs.

Songs & Updates for Saturday, December 12, 2015

This Saturday is the 3rd Sunday of Advent.

We where a little thin on singers last week and Mass was a bit messy in the first half, but we made it through. Thanks to everyone who was able to be there!

Tom, Ginny, Maggie and I stuck around afterward to look over/review Mass of Joy & Peace, the Psalm for this week and our tentative Christmas Eve Mass program.

Songs & Updates for Saturday, December 13, 2014

This Saturday is the Third Sunday of Advent.

Thanks to everyone who was at mass last week! We ended up having quite a bit of new(-ish) material to pull together, so I appreciate you guys bearing with us in getting through all that.

Songs for Saturday, December 14, 2013

This Saturday is the Third Sunday of Advent.

Nice job at mass last week -- 'Comfort, Comfort' seemed to go fairly well, as did our Communion medley. We once again forgot to sort out the Alleluia and 'Bring Forth' before mass, so we ended up scrambling to figure that out last-minute. With that being said, who would be interested in covering the Alleluia this week and the 'Bring Forth' cantor parts? Michaela has the Psalm covered.

We discussed a few changes to our Christmas Eve mass plans, as per Father's memo from a few weeks ago. Basically, the goal is to keep mass under an hour and only play enough music to 'cover the action'. Of note, we're dropping one of our preludes -- we'll be retaining 'O Holy Night', while getting rid of 'Angles We Have Heard on High'. There will be no Psalm, but we'll be keeping our two planned Communion hymns (on the assumption that there will be wall-to-wall people). Finally, the distribution of oplatki has been moved from Christmas Eve to the Forth Sunday of Advent to save time. Regardless of how we approach this, it's gonna be (very) tight, but we'll give it a shot and hope for the best.

We also reviewed 'O Come, Divine Messiah', our opening on the 22nd that will be sung in parts. We worked on Jim's version of 'Go Tell it on the Mountain' and learned parts for 'Silent Night', both of which are Communion songs for Christmas Eve.