The Recovering Choir Director

Iosephus at the Cornell Society reports that on the Octave of Christmas, an Extraordinary Form Low Mass was celebrated at St. James in Trumansburg, some 15-20 minutes northwest of my old stomping grounds. This church will always have a special significance to me as it was there where I experienced — and chanted for — the Traditional Latin Mass for the first time in my life.

Although the powers that be have not yet decided to make the TLM a regularly scheduled liturgy, they are asking the Cornell students in attendance if voices can be assembled to form a schola. Between Cornell and Ithaca College, I would think that they could assemble more than one schola, and even a polyphonic choir or two.

For reasons too numerous to describe here, I pray that the Extraordinary Form Mass becomes a permanent part of the liturgical landscape in that neck of the woods.