From Our Pastor

From Our Pastor

Dear Folks,

One thing that has filled my heart with encouragement as folks have returned to the Mass in the waning pandemic is this: Singing! It has been truly heartening to hear folks sing the Gloria and the Salve Regina especially!

The prayers that we learn to sing take deep root in our souls, and thus I recalled this lovely note that I received from a parishioner who had emailed an encounter that she had in Mass. I share that with you below:

Father Mosimann,

I wanted to tell you how much I love that we sing the Salve Regina after Mass. I love that my kids and I know it by heart now.

Today, I had a new reason to love it. We were sitting behind an elderly woman and her adult son. She appeared very infirm and somewhat “not here.” He was wonderful to her, finding the music/readings for her, putting his arm around her at times, etc.

He helped her get to communion and back to her seat. Then the Salve started and all of a sudden this beautiful, clear voice rang out—she was singing! I looked up and her son was staring at her with this smiling, gaping, open mouth, just like me, I’m sure. Then her son and I had to stop singing because it’s very hard to sing the Salve Regina with a lump in your throat.

We chatted with them after Mass, the son shared that his mom had a stroke 8 years ago, and doesn’t have much short-term memory, but her long-term memory is very solid. She was telling us about being taught by the Dominican Sisters in France during her childhood and how they would always sing the Salve in school.

I love how that piece of music ties us to Catholics all over the world, but also to Catholics out of time and place and to Mary. Amazing Mass today.

– A Parish Mother

Pax,

Father Mosimann

XVII Sunday in Ordinary Time
July 25, 2021
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