| _____________________________ Week-beginning Choir Rehearsal Wednesday evenings - 7:00 pm _____________________________ Cantor rehearsal Wednesday evenings - 8:15 pm _____________________________ The Resurrection Choir Rehearsal after funerals _____________________________ General instrument rehearsals, as need arises ______________________________ |
| __________________________ The Resurrection Choir assists parishioners, their relatives and friends in grieving and celebrating new life in our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. The Week-beginning Choir assists parisioners and visitors at the 11:00 am Sunday Liturgy. At times, the Choir will lead the congregation on special occasions,i.e.Triduum & Holy Days. _____________________ |
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| MUSIC MINISTRY ~ ST.MARK CHURCH Ministry Director ~ Tom Rzonca |
| ________________________________________________________________ Welcome! If you have a song for the Lord in your heart we invite you to join in our Music Ministry at St.Mark Church. Voice or instrument, young or old, classical, or contemporary music - there is a place for you Bring your joy with you and let's share it with others. ~ ~ ~ ~ "Where there are psalms, and prayers, and the dance of the prophets, and singers with pious intentions, no one will err if they call the assembly a church. Here there is no need for art which is slowly perfected, there is need only for lofty purpose and we become skilled in a brief, decisive moment." St.John Chrysostom __________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ |
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| ______________________ The Director's desk In order to maintain high standards in the week-beginning Choir and Cantor, contact Tom Rzonca for an audition for either position. It is not necessary to be a choir member in order to be a Cantor. _____________________________ |
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| _______________________________________ NOTES OF INTEREST Quire to Inquire!! If you have a decent voice,try us out; It does not have to be a life-time committment. Call Tom (755-90983) or stop by the choir area after Mass. Thank you." ~~~~~~~~ "MEDITATION ANTHEM" Without Love by Lee Dengler If I speak in tongues of men and of angels, if I have the gift to understand all; If I have faith to move a mountain or if I give all I possess to the poor. But without love, my words are empty. Without love my knowledge is in vain. Without love, what good is it to give all I possess? Without love I am nothing at all. Love is patient and kind, it is not envious; Not boastful or proud, seeks not its own way; Love rejoices in truth and hopes to the end. But without love, my words are empty. Without love my knowledge is in vain. Without love, what good is it to give all I possess? Without love I am nothing at all. ~Tom Rzonca~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ __________________________________________________________ |
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| ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Why We Sing By J. MICHAEL McMAHON Just how important are singing and music to the liturgy and the Christian life? What encouragement can we offer to the volunteer musicians who work hard each week to prepare to sing or play at Sunday Mass? What answer can we offer to the person who asks for a "quiet Mass" or the one who complains that there is entirely too much singing in church? Sing to the Lord: Music in Divine Worship (STL), the official U.S. guidelines on music in the liturgy approved by the American bishops in November 2007, begins with a substantial treatment of this question. The document does not provide a single answer, but rather presents a broad theological framework for music in worship and in life. 1. Music and song are God's gifts to us. They disclose God's presence among us and provide a language for the human heart to respond in love. Music and song begin with God. God dwells in the human heart and has planted there the gift of song. Music has a sacramental quality -it is a nonverbal language through which God's presence is revealed and God's love is communicated. At the same time, music and song provide a language through which God's people can respond in love. 2. The Scriptures provide numerous examples of the importance of singing for offering praise and expressing faith. God's people have sung to the Lord from the earliest times. STL cites several examples from the Old Testament, including the song of Israel emerging from the Red Sea, freed from slavery in Egypt; and the song of David accompanied by many instruments. In the Gospels we read of Jesus singing with his apostles on the night before he died. The Apostle Paul exhorted the early community to join in "singing psalms, hymns and spiritual songs with gratitude in [their] hearts to God" (Col 3:16). The church has continued to follow this admonition whenever the community gathers to worship. 3. Singing is a primary way that the entire community engages in the full, conscious, and active participation required by the nature of the liturgy. STL emphasizes the importance of both internal and external participation in the liturgy. The whole community is summoned to an interior union with the mystery that is sung in the liturgy. That interior communication is both expressed and strengthened by external participation in the sung parts of the celebration. Singing and the other actions of the liturgy can help to strengthen the faith of those who participate. STL restates the well-known principle from Music in Catholic Worship (1972,1982): "Faith grows when it is well expressed in celebration. Good celebrations can foster and nourish faith. Poor celebrations may weaken it" (STL, no. 5). 4. In the song of the liturgy we share in the "song of the Lamb" (Rev 15:3). We take part in the song of Christ himself who joins us to his victory over sin and death and sends us into the world to share his mission. The Book of Revelation describes the jubilant singing of the saints who join in the song of the Lamb. It is the song of victory by and for the One who has passed through death and has risen victorious. In the liturgy, as Christ joins us to his death and resurrection, we are drawn into the heavenly liturgy and sing with him the great paschal hymn of praise. In the song of the liturgy, we become sharers in Christ's paschal mystery and in his mission to �bring glad tidings to the poor, to proclaim liberty to captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go free, and to proclaim a year, acceptable to the Lord." Our song spills beyond the doors of the church to proclaim the reign of God - that Christ is establishing in the world, and to serve others in his name. How can we keep from singing? J. Michael McMahon is president of the National Association of Pastoral Musicians. Contact him at [email protected]. � Celebration, May 2008. Reprinted with permission. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ |