Dear friends,

The choir which sung and played last Sunday made a big difference and injected new life to our Service.

The Church appreciartes and encourages the music ministry; as matter of facts the Mass was always sung from its very beginning to the end. The reason being that: ”The Good news is so good that can’t be whispered, it has to be sung!

St. Augustine appreciated music and, commenting the psalm: “Sing to the Lord a new song; his praise is in the assembly of the saints”, wrote:

“We are urged to sing a new song to the Lord, as new people who have learned a new song. A song is a thing of joy; more profoundly, it is a thing of love. Anyone, therefore, who has learned to love, has learned to sing a new song, and the new song reminds us of our new life.

There is not one who does not love something, but the question is, what to love. The psalms do not tell us not to love, but to choose the object of our love. But how can we choose unless we are first chosen? We cannot love unless someone has loved us first.

Listen to the apostle John: We love him, because he first loved us. The source of man’s love for God can only be found in the fact that God loved him first. He has given us himself as the object of our love, and he has also given us its source.

Paul tells us: “The love of God has been poured into our hearts”. This love is not something we generate ourselves; it comes to us through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.

My dear children, fruit of the true faith and holy seed of heaven, all you who have been born again in Christ and whose life is from above, listen to me; or rather, listen to the Holy Spirit saying through me: “Sing to the Lord a new song”.

“Look”, you tell me, “I am singing”. Yes indeed, you are singing; you are singing clearly, I can hear you. But make sure that your life does not contradict your words. Sing with your voices, your hearts, your lips and your lives: Sing to the Lord a new song.
You ask me how to sing his praises. The answer is: “His praise is in the assembly of the saints”; it is in the singers themselves. If you desire to praise him, then live what you express. Live good lives, and you yourselves will be his praise.

 Fr. Michael