Fourteen of us (including Dove and I from the Chant Intensive) sang for the first Extraordinary Form Mass in the Mission Church in 40 years. It wasn't pretty, but luckily for us, most of the mistakes we made were not the kind that your average person in the pews would notice. The women sang the Graduale verse and the men the Alleluia verse, and both of those went very well.

We weren't sure how many people would attend the Mass, so we (the schola) played it conservatively, sitting in the pews halfway down the nave. We thought no one would sit behind us, and that we would could be close enough to the sanctuary to see and hear the priest. Boy, were we wrong! It was SRO, with people standing around the sides and the back!

We're planning on singing once a month for now, with a Low Mass being offered the rest of the month. We're very happy, and I made sure I told the schola that they don't know how lucky they are - there are lots of people across this country that would give anything to be able to do what we are doing.