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There’s something for everyone at Our Lady of Hope, so check out the opportunities we have and share your musical talent with your parish family! See below for some of the opportunities for joining our Music Ministry. We have year-round choirs and opportunities to join short-term for Christmas, Holy Week or special masses or events.
Read our special Newsletter HERE
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Contact:
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Pam Crossp.crossshoplegacy.comMusic Director
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From the Choir Loft
I began my music ministry at the age of four when I started singing in the children’s choir at our church. This began a life-long love of music and the peace and joy to be found in praise and worship. My sisters and I would sing our church songs at home, bringing a little bit of prayer into our everyday lives. Singing as part of a choir at church, not only builds confidence and develops good singing skills, but also deepens the faith of the child, as we talk about what the words in the songs mean, and how much God loves us. Music children can relate to, and easily sing, helps make the celebration of mass special for them, and supports a feeling of being welcomed and belonging to their parish family.
We now have Children’s Choir back at our new parish, and I am so excited to be working once again with children. I have my degree in Music Education, grades K-12, so I have lots of great ways to teach singing technique. We also learn about different rhythm instruments and how to play them while we sing – the children really enjoy this! We meet on Sundays at 8:30 a.m. at St. Mary’s on weeks when there are religious education classes.
It is my hope that people from all three campuses join in our Music Ministry! We rehearse every Monday night at 6:30 p.m. at St. Mary’s to prepare for the 10:30 mass there. Teens and adults are most welcome! Or just join in for Christmas or Easter! There will be special masses for teens next year, so we will also have some opportunities for teens to participate in music ministry. I’m so looking forward to sharing music, faith, and fellowship with all of you!
Blessings,
Pam Cross
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Music at St. Mary's Church
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Contemporary Band
We currently offer music in the contemporary style at our 10:30 a.m. Sunday mass and would like to invite singers and instrumentalists to join our band. Rehearsals are on Monday nights at 6:30 p.m. at St. Mary's church. During the summer, we rehearse at 9:45 a.m. at St. Mary's church. All are welcome! We are especially in need of a percussionist!
If you’d like to hear the type of music we’re playing, just check out our St. Mary's Spotify and listen to the Contemporary Songs playlist (see the information below for the Spotify information and playlists).
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Our Lady of Hope
Children’s Choir
All children are invited to join the Our Lady of Hope Children’s Choir. Rehearsals are from 8:30-9:15 a.m. each Sunday morning at St. Mary's church by the piano in the church. We sing every Sunday at the 10:30 mass October through May. You can also choose to just sing on the weeks you can attend - you choose the level of participation that works for you! At 9:15 Mrs. Cross will walk the children to the hall to meet for religious education class. If you child does not have class on Sunday morning, pickup is downstairs in the church hall.
Come and join the fun!
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Rehearsal time to be announced - email Pam for more information. We sing at the “Midnight Mass” (which starts at 10:00 p.m.) on Christmas Eve.
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Rehearsal time to be announced - email Pam for more information. We will sing at the Holy Thursday, Good Friday & Holy Saturday masses.
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Discover Our Lady of Hope Music on Spotify
The Music Ministry at Our Lady of Hope parish has an exciting feature for our parishioners. If you have a computer, tablet or smartphone, and want to be able to listen to Christian music, with playlists of songs created by our music director, then this is for you! St. Mary’s has set up a free web-based Spotify account for our parishioners, offering you the free opportunity to be able to listen to inspiring and comforting faith based music, whenever you like!
If you have access to the web, and have set up a free Spotify account (email Pam Cross for instructions at [email protected]) then you will be able to enjoy our parish music playlists. If you have already installed Spotify on your device, then all you need to do is click on the name of the playlist you want and your computer will open to our St. Mary’s Spotify playlist of your choice. Simply choose which music you want to listen to and enjoy!
TIP: If your music stops playing the whole way through, this means your computer isn't recognizing your free Spotify account. Just login in at Spotify.com and it should start working for you again. -
Daily Encouragement"And God is able to shower all kinds of blessings on you. In all things and at all times you will have everything you need." 2 Corinthians 9:8 NIrV
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