Sharings

Dear Editor,

Enclosed are pictures of our Easter decorations. They were taken at St. Ann’s Catholic Church in Marietta, Ga. Our church has subscribed to your magazine for years. Since we are mostly interested in the liturgical decorations, we scan each issue for new ideas. Sorry to say, they are few and far between. Though each one is magnificent, we wish we could view more.
Carol Kelly and Linda Toth
Marietta, Ga.

Music ministry

Dear Editor,

As a 59-year-old cradle-Catholic singer with lifelong roots (third generation) in a Washington state coastal community, I was not only thoroughly entertained by the writing style of Frank Karl (“Music Ministry Transitions” [28:8]) but am so in agreement with his “revelation.” The key word “transitions” has been a buzzword for our parish as we wrestled with regionalizing a five-parish “pack,” overseen by a ministry team (resulting in a greater leadership demand from “pewland”).

My personal history of choir-loft- standing-next-to-the-organ-first-grader soloing at the crowning of Mother Mary in May, requiem funeral Masses in which the classrooms were emptied and we were marched down to church to sing, Latin High Masses in four parts, tambourines and high energy contemporary music, meditative ethereal electronic productions, cantoring and songleading — all of it classifies as supporting liturgy and certainly defines transitions.

Please accept my compliments on an article well written, to the point and very thought-provoking on a subject too easily ignored — the old “we’ve always done it this way” assumption.
Jo-Celle Strom
Aberdeen, Wash.

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