Music Review: Songs for the Eucharist Ancient and New
When I heard the beautiful voices on Songs for the Eucharist Ancient and New for the first time, I immediately fell in love with them. Their music is so refined that I thought that I must be listening to the chanting of cloistered nuns who have sung together daily for years, rather than a choir of young Catholic lay women who had been singing together for less than one year. The Schola Cantorum of Holy Family is just that impressive. Background In December of 2012, Bishop Lawrence E. Brandt of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Greensburg, Pennsylvania, announced that there would be a weekly celebration of the Eucharist in the Extraordinary Form at Holy Family Parish in the city of Latrobe, with Father Daniel C. Mahoney, V.F., Pastor of Holy Family Church as his representative, and Father Ronald L. Cyktor, Jr. his assistant. Under their leadership, the Schola Cantorum of Holy Family was formed and began singing at the weekly Solemn High Mass on the First Sunday of Le...