The Career You’ll Love

The Colloquium came to a magnificent and emotional close today with a Mass of almost two hours.  Everybody sang, and it was truly wonderful.

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The Colloquium is drawing to a close – tomorrow we have the final Mass and a concluding brunch.  We’re getting to the bottom of our inch-thick music packet, and people are giving their heartfelt thanks for such a wonderful and spiritually filling experience.

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Oh man, this going to be a treat.

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Not to leave you in suspense about what happened to our polyphony choir which sang the music for the Holy Hour Service this afternoon.  If you remember, I talked about it yesterday.

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Today was a most challenging practice.  Here’s the setup:

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The music.  Ah, the wonderful music.

Here’s how the Colloquium runs:  Prayer.  Eat.  Music. Mass. Eat. Music. Music. Eat. Learning. Music. Prayer.  Fall into a heap and do it all again tomorrow.

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It’s a day of great movement in my life, many things are in flux.

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What an absolutely great bunch of guys to work with.  Since September we’ve been chanting for one Mass a month, and yesterday’s Mass was the last before heading off to a well-deserved summer break.  And more important, to the Sacred Music Colloquium in Chicago next week.

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So far I’ve focused on blog posts relating to my book and to my career coaching.  Today’s a great day for launching into a totally different area of my life, sacred music.

For the last 3+ years, I’ve been leading the Gregorian Chant Schola (choir) at St Elizabeth Ann Seton parish.  I have to admit that this is a tremendous journey of discovery and learning.

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