Trust is the word, again

Back in November we got people from all the parishes in Fort Collins together to sing sacred music for Mass.  That was so wonderful, we’re going to do it again!  We’re looking at the end of February, at my home parish.

Trusting the Holy Spirit

In my last post, I talked about the first city-wide chant scholae Mass that we put together.  Well, the Mass was last night, and…

Trusting the Holy Spirit, big time!

Last time I talked about the upcoming big chant gathering we have next Sunday.  Well, we had our practice yesterday, and finally got a chance to meet and find out what we’ve learned, and whether it was the same thing.

Gearing up for the Big Event

We now have less than two weeks to go until we have the scholas from 3 Fort Collins parishes join together to sing a single Mass on November 15th.  Actually, I found out that we can claim four parishes, because a gentleman has joined us from Greeley who is the “one person schola” for his [...]

Inspiring the volunteers

Why do organizations of volunteers even exist?

Think about it:  Your time is tremendously valuable; you want to make sure that you get fairly paid for ALL the work you do; you’re worried when it looks like work is unfairly taking over your personal life.  Yet, here you are, just giving away all this valuable time, [...]

The chant schola grows!

Last week I talked about the chant workshop I put on in our parish. The primary point of that workshop was just to grow familiarity with chant. But then…