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 Adult Choir
- Any adults and high schoolers - a gift of reading
music is helpful, but not necessary. Just a
love for "singing - in order to pray twice!"
- Meets for rehearsal
every Monday in the choir loft from 7:00 -
8:30 PM to prepare for bi-monthly Masses and upcoming
liturgical celebrations including Christmas and
Easter.
- The Adult Choir sings
on the 2nd Sundays of the month at the 8:00
AM Mass for Holy Name Sunday and the 4th Sundays
at the 12:00 Noon Mass.
Adult Contemporary
Choir - Any
adults, especially those with young children, who need a
part-time commitment but still wish to lend their voices
in uplifting song.
- Meets the 2nd and
4th Fridays of the month only, in the
church at the piano ensemble area.
Instrumentalists meet first at 6:30 PM and then all
vocalists arrive at 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
- The Adult
Contemporary Choir sings the 2nd and 4th Sundays at
our celebratory 10am liturgy.
*preK and Kindergarten
religious education is available during the 10am
liturgy. Take advantage of this time for your
child to learn about God while you freely
sing "unemcumbered" unto the Lord.
Breath Of Life/Choir
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Any youth, 6th grade
through twenties - even if you are not a
member of this parish. This group is open to
instrumentalists and/or vocalists wishing to lend
their talent to praise and worship our God!
- Meets the 2nd
and 4th Friday evenings from 5:30 - 7:00 PM
in the church piano ensemble area. We practice
and share fellowship with one another.
- The Youth
Ensemble/Choir plays and sings every Sunday night at
the 6:30 PM Youth mass which hosts outside
priests with a "youthful message
Children's Choir
- Any child in kindergarten through 6th grade is welcome
to join our talented group of children who
love to sing praises to God!
- Meets every Monday
from 5:15 - 6:30pm in the the church at the piano
ensemble area to prepare for mass, sharing God's love
for one another in song and spirit.
- The Children's
Choir sings every 1st and 3rd Sunday's of the month at
the 10am mass and other special liturgies such as
Christmas and Easter and other special events
such as concerts and nursing home "sings".
Children/Youth
Choir Mission Statement
Our
calling is to use our musical gifts to tell about God's
abundant love. We
believe that we are each uniquely gifted by God to do the
work of music
ministry. We acknowledge that our gifts come from God and
that our joy
in music also comes from God. When we, as a young person
in St.
Mark’s community accept the privilege and the
responsibility of leading
in worship through music, we are showing our desire to
serve and be a
part of our church life. We believe that Christian truths
are expressed
in great hymns and songs, and carefully taught as to text
as well as
music, will be a fertile source of Christian education. By
singing this
text from our hearts we add a quality of joy and
enthusiasm to community
worship, which cannot be gained in any other way. We
promise to develop our
musical skills, and have a goal of sharing this
gift through
self-expression and spiritual growth. We know that we
must serve out of a sense
of gratitude to God for what he has done for us
and this requires a certain level of commitment from all
our members.
Most importantly, we believe that our ministry as children
choir members or youth
choir members, exists to minister to and bless the
Church of St. Mark’s the very best we can, so that we
may all worship
more completely by praising God in song with all we do
being dedicated
to the glory of God.
CHOIR
MOTHER’S GUILD MISSION STATEMENT
To
encourage all, in both the children and youth choir,
through enthusiasm, dependability,
tact, patience and love, the ability to bring to fruition
the goal of their mission
statement… “so that we may all worship more completely
by praising God in song
with all we do being dedicated to the glory of God.”
A note
from the director…
Choir
mothers represent the Church to the children, as all
parents do. We must all have a commitment
to the choir and appreciate it as a real opportunity for
the spiritual needs of our
children to be met and more importantly, the spiritual
education of our children to grow
and be successful.
Dawne B.
Mechlinski W - 732-449-6364 X121
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