[neocon]

Boy is it terrific to have you back!

Sure, an' 'tis nice 'o ye t' say dat, colleen.

I won't be able to spend much time at FR, though. I live in the Archdiocese of Boston, and am a cantor at a church in the Diocese of Manchester (NH), so you can imagine what life is like just now. Now that we're back in Ordinary Time until Lent, the choir obligations are not quite so demanding, but we generally do a Latin Ordinary for Lent, and I'm trying to introduce the Mass setting Orbis Factor, or at least the Kyrie from it to them. I'd also like to have them learn the Angus Dei from Mass XV, which has some very beautiful melismatic word-painting in the middle.

I've not been blessed with robust health, so that too will keep me away from FR.

Very best wishes to you all!

[american colleen]

Neocon, I'm glad for another soulmate! I'm from the Arch of Boston as well. Things are nuts down here. The latest is the bogus "Parish Pastoral Council" which is an abnormal growth of Voice of the Faithful - another way to infiltrate the parishes under a happy psuedonym. I am told that Bishop Lennon is very aware of what is going on.

I will add you to my rosary list and pray that your health will not be an impediment to your work. I can tell you are a soldier.

God Bless.