The Recovering Choir Director

Marie makes an observation regarding the promotion of parish-level chant:

The best advice I can give is find a Church and a pastor who supports Gregorian chant so passionately that he is willing to make this choir assist at a regular Sunday liturgy.

It is not enough that Vatican encourages the use of Latin songs in celebration of the Novus Ordo. The choir actually needs a priest, preferrably a pastor—or priests, as many as they can enlist—to give it moral support.

They’ll need the pastor’s shield for when the bullets start flying from the influential aging hippies among the parishioners who absolutely hate Latin.

Or the chancery, for that matter. See Dallas.

If there is a parish in my current neck of the woods (eastern Nassau County, N.Y.) with a pastor (and music director) willing to commit, long-term, to develop a Gregorian chant Mass and schola, and who would do what he could within his power to ensure the liturgy’s successful integration to parish liturgical life in the event of his transfer or death—including catechesis, active support, and perhaps even recruitment on his part—please let me know; I’d like to help.

I’m not going to actively search for such a situation, though. I’ll always have the “ideal liturgy” in my head, and at this point, that’s just about good enough for me. Even if I should find myself at a puppet Mass.