Author: John Schultz

Steve – we didn’t get many comments anyway so let’s leave them off. Use email to comment to us.

Work has kept me very busy over the last few months, which is why Steve has been doing most of the blogging. Candidly, I feel like I use the blog to vent frustration rather than be uplifting (which is what I wanted to express with the Catholic Light title, knowing I’d end up talking about Catholic Lite a little…) I’m going to try to set aside the frustration in favor of more humor and more Light… Then my wife won’t say that I sound *real* cranky on the Blog sometimes.

…the Incarnation.
I find myself planning music for Christmas around this time of year, and I try to spend some time thinking about the meaning of the Incarnation. Target will have their Christmas decorations up soon, and you’ll begin to hear the homilies decrying the commercialism of Christmas.
It’s the beginning of our salvation – God is one of us. God is like us. God is among us. And He became like us, so that we can become like Him. Even for Christians, it’s easy to miss the significance of the Incarnation and think of Jesus as our pal – the footsteps Jesus (I’m sure you remember that poem read at least 6 times a year at Youth Rallies.) It’s God on earth – the paradox of Jesus our blood-brother and our God at the same time.
Amazing stuff, and worthy of meditation even in August.

She spent the evening on the Larry King Live show.
I can think of many other places I’d rather be on my birthday than with Larry King.

To any visitors to this blog who live in the DC area and like to sing: My choir at St. Mark’s could use some more hearts and voices as we go into the Fall and Christmas season. We do a wide range of music, from Palestrina to Durufle, from Latin to Russian (sometimes!) and English. Our Hymnal is Ritual Song and we tend to do a balance of hymns and congregational verse/refrain songs. I do my best to balance the repetoire and leave the cheese in the refridgerator.
Location: St. Mark Parish in Vienna, VA
Rehearsals: We have a Wed night rehearsal starting on 11 Sept and meet at 9:15am for a 10am Mass on Sunday.
Upcoming Events: All the choirs are also doing a Mozart concert on Nov 22nd so we’ll have some added rehearsals for that.
Christmas – We do the 10pm Mass Christmas eve with a program of choral music before Mass.
So e-mail me if you are interested or shoot my info to someone who you think might be. We need voices in all parts.