Never say that catching the monsignor's ear at the opera doesn't do any good (last Tuesday, we ran into him at the Kennedy Center during a performance of Wagner's Parsifal). I wandered in to St. Stephen's this morning and they'd put an electronic keyboard up in the choir loft and were actually using it for the hymns this morning!
Yay. I was glad to be able to sing for a change. The congregation was singing, too. It was wonderful.
Hymns today were Darwall's 145th, National Hymn, and Wareham, and most of the Mass setting was Proulx's Mass fo the City. The choir did Duruflé's "Ubi caritas" for the communion motet. Otherwise it was a boring Mass. The preacher went on and on about witnessing about Christianity by buying fifty fish filet sandwiches at McDonald's during Lent.
My mother called from Oklahoma today with an interesting bits of news. Their parish priest is a nominee for Bishop of Oklahoma. If he gets elected, it would be kewl cause I'd get to go back and sing at the consecration.
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