I sing in the choir at my parish Catholic church. There are 4 elderly ladies (2 sopranos and 2 altos) and me, who sings tenor but on a good day can get a little low. Our choir director is a competent organist but not a strong singer herself. Our church has a fine pipe organ. The choir loft is up high in the back of the church, in front of the pipes. Congregational singing is weak.

Our director is open to introducing a new mass setting, and I'd like to bring her some suggestions. Hopefully something more traditional, even chant-based or with chant elements, but primarily in English. And of course something currently in print so we could purchase a set of the sheet music for choir and organ. Ideally there could be some simple violin parts, for occasional use (I'm almost good enough, and have played violin in a few hymns in the past year, always with the pipe organ as the main instrument).

Thanks for any suggestions, and any commentary on those suggestions or on anything I have written here.