Colloquium Day 5

Today was the day we'd been awaiting all week.  Every year, the CMAA celebrates a Solemn Requiem Mass for their deceased members.  This year,   the Faure Requiem setting was chosen.  This was our second and last trip to the cathedral.

In the choir loft and ready to sing Faure's Requiem Mass setting

Mass in the Extraordinary Form begins

Incense and prayers over the catafalque

The largest tabernacle I've yet seen, on the side altar.

Colloquium Day 4

Another whirlwind day at the Musica Sacra Colloquium!  Today we had Mass, Vespers, and Compline at the breathtakingly beautiful Cathedral of St. Paul in downtown Pittsburgh.  This church makes our own Sacred Heart  in Church in downtown Tampa seem almost frumpy in comparison!  The Faure choir rehearsed in the loft for tomorrow's Solemn Requiem Mass.  The Mass Ordinary today was sung beautifully by the Palestrina choir.  After supper at a nearby Indian restaurant, we went back to the cathedral for Vespers, celebrating the Visitation of Our Lady, followed by sung Compline.

Stairs to the choir loft

Holy water stoup

The Holy Spirit watches over all

I lit a votive candle for the success
of our new Latin Mass parish

St. Michael the Archangel
Defend us in battle!

The new music reading session was held in
Synod Hall

The gallery

Solemn Vespers led by the
Office choir

Ad Te Suspiramus click link for video

Tabernacle on a side altar