Choirs

There are three choirs in our TriParishes, covering each of the Masses for the weekend: the Saturday 4pm Choir, the Sunday 9am Choir, and the Sunday 11am Choir. Occasionally, there is a TriParish Choir made up of members from each parish that provides music for special liturgies including those of Holy Week and Holy Days of Obligation. If you'd like to join one of our choirs, it's as simple as walking up after Mass and introducing yourself to them!

Among the faithful, the schola cantorum or choir exercises its own liturgical function, ensuring that the parts proper to it, in keeping with the different types of chants, are properly carried out and fostering the active participation of the faithful through the singing. What is said about the choir also applies, in accordance with the relevant norms, to other musicians, especially the organist.

It is fitting that there be a cantor or a choir director to lead and sustain the people’s singing. When in fact there is no choir, it is up to the cantor to lead the different chants, with the people taking part.

(General Instruction of The Roman Missal, 103, 104)

Documents on the Sacred Liturgy

• Musicam Sacram (The Second Vatican Council, 1967)
• The General Instruction of the Roman Missal (1970, 2011)
• Sing to the Lord (The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, 2007)
• Plenty Good Room (The Secretariat for Black Catholics, USCCB, 1991)

Parish Music Resources

• Musica Sacra Website
• Downloadable Mass Propers (Entrance, Offertory, Communion)
• Music for the Liturgy from Corpus Christi Watershed
• The Chabanel Psalms (with practice videos, sheet music, etc.) Note: These are the responsorial psalms used at Mass in The TriParishes.