Teachers...

...from Staffordshire, Birmingham, and the Midlands came to Maryvale today (Wed) for a most successful Day of Art and Music organied by the Association of Catholic Women.

Jeremy de Satge of The Music Makers led an excellent training session on Gregorian Chant, beginning with a thoughtful introduction to the whole topic of music and liturgy, with reference to the H. Father's Sacramentum Caritatis. There was greast dedication and enthusiasm for the singing, as we tackled a Kyrie and a Sanctus and moved on to other chants...

Then a most beautiful Mass in the Maryvale Chapel, the Chairman of the ACW doing the readings, a young teacher and a nun alternating with singing the verses of the Psalm, everyone singing a rousing Pater Noster and, a most lovely Ave Verum at Communion...

It was a pleasure to meet these teachers: a lot of inspoiration there.

For us, on the ACW team, much lively talk of future plans: all sorts of ideas for further activities for schools, pilgrimages, and more...

Appropriately, when I got home, a great batch of entries had arrived for our ACW Schools RE Project, to be forwarded on to the various judges. ON a cursory glance, the standard looks good....