I am very excited and share this as a request for prayer, and or any advice from you experienced people out there.
We have priest in a local parish who wants a completely sung Mass every Sunday (though he is willing for that to be a project which might take years to achieve).
I have been working with one of their parishioners who has brought her kids to our schola for 6-9's, and she will be starting their schola in January. These younger ones learn music a la the ward method and do adoration.
I am going to get to do the parallel group, 10's and upwards . The current plan is to take the kids on a weekday afternoon for music and Adoration, then after a while, they will form the choir for the sung Mass, along with other adults, and their parents, a sort of family choir, which is something I have tried before.
This gives me a chance to implement the continuation of the work I have started with our younger schola. Unfortunately in the parish where i started, the family mass choir was axed when a priest was reassigned, and the mass schedule re-jigged, so now in this other parish i will get the chance to work with the older age group, and develop the next logical steps for this work.
i am hoping to be able to develop a through flowing program, of Music ad Eucharistic Adoration, which provides a certain catechesis, which can be implemented easily in other parishes who wish to help their youth and improve their liturgy.
All sounds great, but it will be a lot of work!
Please pray for me!