Pics from Easter weekend at St. Thomas More

Happy Easter to all! Below are some pics from Good Friday and Easter Vigil at St. Thomas More. It was a great time of celebrating faith and fellowship, and the liturgy and music was excellent, as always.

Proclaiming John's Gospel on Good Friday. At St. Thomas More, we do this Gospel reading set to music, with the solo parts in chant-style and the choir sings the parts of the crowd. Here, Doug (in the foreground) is singing the part of Jesus, and I'm in the background singing the part of the Narrator. Deacon Phil is standing to my right. Photo taken from the photo album page on the St. Thomas More church website.

From l-r: Anne, Fr. John, me, Michelle, Danelle, Alessandra, and Jim. Anne, me, and Michelle are all bell choir members, Danelle is a lector, Alessandra sings in Celebration Singers, Jim is the director of Elementary and Adult Faith Formation, and Fr. John is our pastor.

Me and Roger, our music director, after the Easter Vigil Mass

Me, Anne, and Drew (another bell choir member) after Easter Vigil Mass.

The altar, all decorated for Easter.

Happy New Year!

We celebrated the arrival of 2007 with a bunch of our friends from St. Thomas More. Our friend, Jim Hynes, hosted a party at his house last night which featured good food, good drink, and good company. A particularly noteworthy dish was made by our Italian friend Alessandra. She made Tiramisu and it was definitely some of the best I've ever had.

This morning, we went to Mass at St. Thomas More. I sang and there were also two trumpet players. The music was excellent; the two trumpet players performed a piece at prelude by Henry Purcell, and I sang Salve Regina at Communion, which is a piece that Roger our music director wrote a few months ago. Fr. John was especially appreciative of us musicians this morning. All in all, it was a great way to start off the week and the new year.